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Show MILLIONS FQK DARRKI S IN Til 12 UNITED STATES. The farmer with his potatoes and his apples, the miller with his flour and meal, tho-hardwarc mnn with his nails, the cement manufacturer, and the many other users ol tho faithful slack barrel, that combination of staves, hoops, and heading, which Is not intended to hold water or something some-thing stiongcr in fluid form, used forest products last year having the enormous valuo of 515.S00.2ri3. The average man would littlo suspect sus-pect that the humblo barrel plays bo Important a purt in the expenso accounts ac-counts of tho American farmer and manufacturer, yet figures compiled by the census In co-operatlon with tho United States forest service develop this Interesting truth. Moreover, statistics sta-tistics taken directly from reports from 950 cooperage mills In all parts of tho United Slates show an lncronso of $1,5C0,688, or 11 per cent In tho valuo of last year's product over that of tho prcvlqus year. |