Describe Four Places In The Cooper's

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In the colonial time 1970 I got to pick a shop and I had to pick the cooper smith because. There once were four places in the cooper's smith. The dry or slack. Cooper made containers that would be used to ship dry goods such as nails, tobacco, fruits, and vegetables. The dry-tight cooper made casks designed to keep dry goods in and moisture out. Gunpowder and flour casks are examples of a dry-tight cooper's work. The white cooper made straight-starved containers like washtubs, buckets, and butter churns, which would hold water and other liquids but did not allow shipping of the liquids. Usually there was no bending of wood involved in white cooperage. The wet or tight cooper made casks for long-term storage and transportation of liquids. That