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Figure 18. The clay scale. (Illustration by Daphne Shutdeworth.)
Cheever and Lanier favored four-gallon ware and smaller, although
both turned ware as large as six gallons on occasion. By
Lanier^ recollection, "I ain't made but one eight-gallon churn that I
can remember, and when I finished it, I marked it nine and I think it
held seven." Just as an indication of the amount of clay used in
turning, the Meaderses estimated die real weight of material for a
one-gallon piece at ten pounds and, for a six-gallon piece, twenty-two
pounds.
By weighing their clay balls, the pair was reasonably assured that