Re: Barns painted red orgins

Posted by Bill46 on May 11, 2006 at 10:22:21 from (63.65.68.27):

In Reply to: Barns painted red orgins posted by sjh on May 10, 2006 at 18:43:46:

I ask my grandpa this 50+ years ago. We had red ones and black ones on the farm. The black ones were the tobbacco barns. The leaves cured faster because the barn got hot faster in the daytime. Of course we now know that black throws off heat faster..so they must have cooled faster at night too.
The red came from red oxide. They used it in the old country (Germany) to help keep mold and mildew down. They mixed it with other things such as flax seed and other oils...heck I can't remember all the stuff.
Anyway, in my part of the country it was a carry over from the old country, in my case Germany.
When I was in the Army and stationed there, there were a lot of old red barns...some of them really big. They used to live in them with the live stock. Bet that was fun.

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