Show queer kind of barrels the scarcity of wood suitable for the purposes of the wine producers of california has led to the manufacture of vessels of other materials than wood at the big winery and distil lery of the italian swiss agricultural colony at asti cal the greater por alon of the cooperage Is being changed wood to cement lined with glass an expert from italy has arrived to do the work and it is now being con ducted with rapidity eight of the largest tanks are being lined with plate glass about half an inch in bickness kness the tanks are square with rounded corners and oval tops cement will employed outside the glass interior instead of wood the glass to fit the curvatures has to be blown to order and Is very expensive the total stor age capacity at the asti warehouse and winery is 13 gallons and he improvement contemplated will materially increase it philadelphia ledger |