WATERPROOF COVERS
ECONOMICAL PRESERVATIVE
TREATMENT OF CANVAS
Here is a simple recipe for waterproofing stack and cow covers that any farmer can readily prepare for himself.
In these days of rising costs and short supply, it is a wife farmer who adopts some means to lengthen the life of these very necessary articles, and the recipe now given can be used efficaciously even on sack covers. To prepare the mixture, simply take a quantity of raw linseed oil, roughly judging the amount required by the amount el' work to lie done. and. into it put some cut-up inner tube or motO:- ear tyre; this i.s then boiled in a kerosene tin restjjig en a sfnall sheet of galvanised
iron over an open fire outside
One would build the fire, of course, where there is no danger to farm buildings should the mixture catch alight. This is not likely to happen if ordinary care is used.
The mixture is bailed until, the rubber lias dissolved and is painted on hot or colt!.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 167, 13 October 1941, Page 6
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171WATERPROOF COVERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 167, 13 October 1941, Page 6
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