Barrel Making By Machinery

The JNew lork Tn.bune says that the strike of the coopera in Brooklyn early this year led to the establishment of a steam cooper shop in that city, wbich gives employment to over 200 hands, and turns out over 2,500 Bugar barrels daily. The demand lor the barrels tnnde by steam has beoii so great that the manufactory is being extended to occupy the whoie of one blook and half of another, and when completed it will be able to tura out 6,000 barrels a day. The staves are out by machinery, of twowidths and uniform leugth. When they are " stood up" in the frame they fit together ho well that the last sfcave has to be driven into ita placo with a hamnier, but does not need to be trimmed. The rough barrels, ljavmg had hoops fastened around each end, are put ia f urnaees nud heated, and arfe" then rolled by two disks, whioh prees equally on each of the ends and f orce the staves homes. The barrels are then taken to the triraming machine, which cuts ff the rough ends, gives theoi the proper level, and cuts the groo ves ior the hoadH. The wooden hoops having been nailei on and one head put in plaoe, the barrels are linished. The heads are cit by machinery in Michigan, and are formed of tluee pieces. They are so uniform in size that there is no trouV!o about fiiting them to the barrels at the manufactory. Flour barivls can bb made by t.lie same prooes=.