Show COOPERAGE AND WASHING our oar coopers are doing well in trying to supply the market with wash tubs pails barrels ac but it is not half supplied with what is needed neither can it be at present with all the exertions you can make yet we occasionally see tubs and barrels standing idle for want of a purchaser because they are too heavy and it would require a very strong woman or considerable of a man to lift one or because they are so rough the ladies dont like to go near them lest they should tear their frocks frock si perhaps their last frock and they want to keep it whole as long as possible cannot these evils be remedied the cooper get readier sales and better pay and the public be better accommodated certainly when you make a tub tab stretch the timber and make your work smooth to be a little more particular I 1 your tubs are generally too s small mall too heavy a d too rough make your staves thinner and longer and the bottoms a trifle larger with smooth shaved hoops and trimmed so as not to tear clothes and there will be ten tubs wanted where chefe one cannot now biow be sold of the present mould I 1 I 1 pine knots and fir splinters are poor things to make into wash boards if wash boards mist be made mada let lei them be made of the smoothest timber la in miny many instances clothes are injured more by rubbing on a rough board than by their wear capar bodes hw shall this be prevented aarow away your couii boards which you now have and let no more be made use smooth timbered or zine zinc boards all but th theres the rejis ereis a remedy for all these evils and if we cannot come in m possession of 4 the best beat remedy a cooj gool wa easling sLing machine to be worked by water do 0 horte horse or steam power let us as take the next best remedy good pounding barrels give us a good coundi pounding n barrel made of straight staves as the riddle goes graat at the bottom and little at the top with a thing in the middle going whip a te whop 1 that is churn fashion capable of containing about 30 gal gallons lons with cro zings half an inch deep and half an inch thick and the rest of the barrel made light and smooth and easy to handle andle li with a false bottom 6 or 8 inches s in diameters diameter fastened to and under the centre of the bottom even with the end ead of the chim t then lien give us a turned out of light wood wood 0 O ar or i 7 inches diameter a very little hollow on the bottor bottom of spiral oval 6 or 8 inches high and a good handle like a broom in the centre cantre and we wi V lagree agree to churn the dir dirt t out of twice the amount of I 1 ra cwm rub rab out on a w wash bo q fifee e x t liae ish with less th than an half hf r 6 I 1 I 1 ln g M 4 d if 7 e do no not t do as dis w we I 1 i W w ill f forfeit su all pay for om 4 services I 1 1 r arl 11 it if men c ee f julf h af labor or half their clothes cloth qs and halt half 4 i byh 1 t 1 y 1 this 1 simple ir hapl prescription women woman can do th cheroe C eroe I 1 and that is ls is quite quit an object in 1 this day of A A 1 L i e manufacture if this proposition could unearned cawed into effect from this day for six I 1 mont lWin this territory there might be a saving of some gome in labor and wear and tear of clothes at washing as well as not it dont hurt clothes to churn them as it does to rub them who ever heard of it P hurting butter to chum it it is just as good to churn cothes as butter while that is the best you can do we churn butter to make in more and would ch churn ell clethies 10 asao ato saye ie I 1 clothes and tune time to make more yes geould if we could get the chance yel if eie is a man in christendom that thai will make us a dozen pounding pounds barrels such as we have described bring them n conf on the pay is ready 5 and we will exhibit a general clothes churning establishment I 1 I 1 after which washboard wash board makers will find some more profitable employment and our children will not be obliged to go so raed as they now do having all their clothes worn out on a rough knotty splinted washboard what say you coopers will you bring us some wash barrels churn barrels banels ban els just now five thousand are needed in the territory today to day dont delay for clothes are clothes and worth saving and as ben franklin told the british parliament we may I 1 have to wear our old clothes over ova again 11 if we are nol not I 1 11 |