54 BROOM-CORN CULTURE 



Factory-Made Brooms. At the present time 

 practically all of the broom-corn grown in the 

 United States is manufactured into brooms in large 

 factories which are equipped with machines for 

 handling the crop in an economical manner. 



Fig. 21. Broom-winding machine used in large factories. 



In some of the small factories the machines are 

 operated by hand, but the larger establishments 

 make use of power machines for all of the processes 

 of converting the raw material into finished brooms 

 or whisks. Figure 19 shows a tread-power machine 



