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Traditional Whitewash Recipes vs. Modern Tree Trunk Paint

Old whitewash recipes (quicklime, hydrated lime, salt, sugar, zinc sulphate) are messy and hazardous. Farmers now use white latex paint on young tree trunks to prevent winter sunscald—it reflects sun, preventing bark cracking on cold nights.

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