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THE HOP. 



has 12 kilns, each 30x30 feet, all connected by 

 over-head trestles with the six bins in each of the 

 two large cooling rooms or warehouses. The cars in 

 which the hops are carried from the kilns to the cooling 

 bins are 30 feet long by 12 feet wide, big enough 



to take an entire ''flooring" at once. The cars 

 have movable sides and A -shaped bottoms, so that 

 the hops can slide from car to floor in any direc- 

 tion wanted without being rehandled, which also 

 saves breaking. Indeed, handling is avoided through- 



