steaming staves being rolled out on trucks and piled under sheds. Over 

 50,000,000 staves are made annually in New York for slack coojierage used 

 in the shipment of apples and other fruit, cement, vegetables, crockery, 

 sugar. Hour. etc. The principal woods used are birch, beech, maple, elm, 

 spruce and ash. Photograph taken at the plant of the Brooklyn Cooperage 

 Co. at Faust, N. Y. Photograph by Nelson C. Bkown. 



