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lowed them to bend in. Then they’d stand them all up around an iron hoop, like in a circle and then put another hoop over that which goes down about the middle. After that you had to put that over an iron

’ stove. This got hot — they were heated so the staves won’t break. The hoops were only temporary. Wait

a few minutes and the tress hoops were put on. Then you’d have to champer them. That meant you had to go all around the top and bottom rims of the barrel with a tool like a plane. You’d go all around the barrel with a champer knife. This groove was for the head to fit in. The heads were the ends of the barrel. Then you would level it and finally close it. You had to knock off one tress hoop and (put) the head in. Then you put on an inner hoop, two hoops are put on each end. You had to shellac them inside with resin. We used to buy resin in the stores in big lumps. Corked holes were left for draining the water. Sometimes they were filled with fish and then they were laid on their side and this hole was used to fill the barrel with pickle. Usually one head was put on first, and then the barrel was filled. After the second head was fitted on, you’d have to take an axe to get that off. I sold barrels every- where. I sold them to Holman’s for mackerel, smelts and oysters...

BLACKSMITHS Villages were always eager to attract a good blacksmith, for no community could have survived without one. The Elmsdale area was no exception as many fine black- smiths served the early settlers and were common until recent years. Today the black-

smiths we are familiar with are really farriers, . ' as these are the craftsmen who shoe horses. The _ NOTIC E - on account of the advance in the price of horse

early blacksmith was a “jack:of—all—iron-trades”. shoes, ml, ‘ {m m steel, we fmd 11-.

impossihle to continue shoeing horses for the

. . , same price as formefly, so on and after June A blacksmlth’s work requlred great‘phy31ca1 1151‘1 1913 we the mdersigned, have ageedto

' _ charge the following prices: For new shoes, per strength, both to hammer the p1eces of red hot set $111“- For ”sang 51mg, per set 50 m

iron into shape and to manage heavy iron ob— Fur putting on new shoes whenthe custOmes buy them, per set 60 ets. .

Jects and 11vely horses. R H JELLY. O Lem I. McNAUGHT, McNaught 5 Corner

Among the items a blacksmith was called upon ”*3 E BROW FWWHE CW6 to mak re° axes hoes sc thes low b1 (1 HARRY” A SAUNDERS Blogmfi 31d 6 we ° ’ ’ y ’ p a CS, Isl-ELM MCAUSLAND, Elmsdale

nails, hinges, pots, sleigh runners, weather DOUGLAS» REID Campbellton

vanes, rims for wheels, hoops for barrels, brack— . W-Y- COSTA“: West "Cape

. ms. MCDOUGALL, Springfield ets for holding kerosene lamps, gates, horse- WM A HARRIS Knutsford

shoes, and small iron pieces for bridles and har— ANGUS MCEACHERN M10 nesses. PATRICK MCCOURT, Coleman.

Island Farmer, June 18, 1913