THE BROOM-CORN PLANT 



for whisk brooms the demand is for straw that is 

 fine, straight, tough, elastic and of a uniform green 

 color without red tints. 



The dwarf type does not produce as heavy a yield 

 of brush as the standard, but the former commands 

 a very much higher price on the market. 



Standard and dwarf heads exhibiting desirable 

 and undesirable characteristics are shown in Figure 

 3. Dwarf heads, inclosed 

 in the upper leaf sheath, 

 are shown at A and B, while 

 C represents a dwarf head of 

 fine quality of brush. Con- 

 trasted with this is the large 

 dwarf head D, which is 

 weak at the attachment of 

 the straws. The other heads 

 shown in the drawing repre- 

 sent good and poor grades 

 of standard heads. 



Occasionally, when the 

 domestic supply is not equal 

 to the demand, a small quan- 

 tity of foreign grown brush 

 is imported. The imported 

 material has coarse, brittle, 

 straw, as shown at A in 

 Figure 4. It is used in the manufacture of coarse 

 heavy stable brooms, and to some extent it is 

 worked into the centers of the low-grade house 

 brooms. 



Our seedsmen sell broom-corn seed under several 



Fig. 4. Coarse imported 

 brush (A) and good domes- 

 tic heads (B). The former 

 is used in the manufacture 

 of coarse stable brooms. 



