BROOM-CORN CULTURE 



TABLE I. STATEMENT SHOWING THE NUMBER OF 



FARMS, NUMBER OF ACRES, NUMBER OF POUNDS, AND 



VALUE OF BROOM-CORN, BY STATES, FOR THE 



CROP YEAR 1909. CENSUS OF IQIO. 



According to the Eleventh Census there were grown 

 in the United States in 1889, 93,425 acres of broom- 

 corn, which produced a total of 39,557,429 pounds of 

 brush. By 1899 the planting had been increased to 



