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 Our barn shown here is painted red. Have you ever wondered how the tradition of painting barns red was started? 
 
 According to Bill Duncan at the Capital Press; in the late 18th century, farmers found that they could protect the wood on their barns from the rough winter by coating it with a mixture of skim milk, lime and iron oxide which is red |