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Weights, 293 lbs....... $9.85

The above stone-colour fit for use, is not three and a half cents
per pound.


261. BROWN-RED COLOURED PAINT

Lime-water, 8 galls................. $0.08
Spanish brown, 112 lbs.............. 3.36
Road-dust, 224 lbs.................. 0.40
4 galls. of fish oil................ 2.40
4 galls. incorporated oil........... 2.28
4 galls. linseed oil................ 3.60
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Weights, 501 lbs....... $12.12

This paint is scarcely two and a half cents per pound. The Spanish
brown must be in powder.


262. A GOOD CHOCOLATE COLOURED PAINT

This is made by the addition of blue black in powder, or lamp-black
to receipt No. 261, till the colour is to the painter's mind; and a
lighter brown may be formed by adding ground white lead. By ground
lead is meant white lead ground in oil.