Whitewash
Dear Aunt Daisy, I wish to whitewash the inside of a small dairy and meat house. What preparation should I use, and should it be mixed with milk or water? The walls are in a rough, unfinished condition, and have never had any paint on them.
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One pound of, whitening, 1 Ib. size, 1 cake laundry blue, 1 tablespoon alum. Pour boiling water on the whitening until it becomes a thin paste. Add the size, already melted in a saucepan, the blue dissolved in water, and lastly the alum. Tint, if needed, with red ochre, for a pink colour, yellow ochre for buff, and Brunswick green for green. Here. also, is a whitewash lime: Use wellslaked lime, and to every bucketful add 214 Ib. alum dissolved in boiling water. Thin down, and apply two coats. It is better to have the mash too thin than too thick. The alum makes it adhere hetter.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 21
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