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metal bands are here preferable to wood hoops. 

 Because of the ever-increasing cost of tight barrels 

 produced by the old methods, various experiments 

 have been conducted with a wood-pulp or paper 

 barrel, generally made in the form of layers of stiff 

 paper held together by some suitable adhesive. 

 Such a container may be both water-tight and 

 weather proof. The inventors claim that due to 

 elimination of the wastage above mentioned, a 

 paper barrel can be produced at about one-third the 

 cost of a regular wooden barrel, but as yet no large 

 scale manufacture has been attempted. 



It was at one time thought that the enactment of 

 prohibition laws would have a very serious effect 

 upon the tight cooperage business, as whiskey and 

 wine barrels represented the highest grade product. 

 As it happens, however, there has been an increase 

 rather than a falling off in the industry; first, be- 

 cause of the many new discoveries of oil with 

 increasing demand for barrel shipments, and sec- 

 ondly, because of the development of an export 

 trade. Nearly twenty-five per cent, of our high 

 grade barrel production is now purchased by the 

 wine growers of France. 



We do not have to go to a lumber yard to buy 

 wood. We buy it in furniture stores and grocery 

 stores, drug stores, book stores, and stationers. 



