PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



HICKORY. 



Reports from the Government Statistics place the number of barrels made 

 in the United States at 300 million, by far the larger majority being "slack bar- 

 rels," that is not for holding liquids. 



In recent years the manufactured hoops have grown in favor and have taken 

 precedence over the split hickory poles, largely on account of the difficulty in 



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At the Home of Mrs. Rodgers, Watsonville, California; 135 Feet High; 17 Feet Girth Three Feet from 



Ground ; 38 Years from Seed. 



procuring young hickory sprouts. At the same time iron hoops have become 

 the standard for oil and other tight barrels where salt is not used in the contents. 

 Pork and meat barrels, having a brine or salt solution would soon corrode and 

 destroy metal hoops. 



It is but a few years since the entire output of cooperage was bound with 

 hickory hoops until the young hickory forests were almost annihilated. As it is 

 now, there are probably one hundred million barrels still made where hickory 

 poles are used for hooping. 



