PRODUCTION OF BROOM-CORN 5 



the price went up to $117 a ton. An increased acre- 

 age the following year sent the price down to $94. 



In 1909 the partial failure of the crop in Oklahoma 

 sent the price up to more than $200 a ton and neces- 

 sitated the importation of a small amount of brush 

 from Europe. 



Practically all of the broom-corn produced in the 

 United States is made into brooms in this country. 

 The export trade amounts to about $425,000 a year, 

 of which a very large share is with Canada and 

 Cuba. The shipment of broom-corn from this coun- 

 try has increased from $240,164 in 1906 to $424,484 

 in 1910. 



