BROOM-CORN CULTURE 



ful of the sorted brush, suitable for the kind of 

 broom to be made, is taken in the left hand, and 

 with the knife the stalks are cut half through with 

 a sloping cut half an inch above the straw, and the 



Fig. 22. Broom stitcher. Capacity, four to seven dozen brooms per hour. 



half of the stalk split off. The stalks are then placed 

 beneath the wire so that it may be wound exactly over 

 where they were cut. The treadle is turned until 

 the stalks are all bound on, when another handful 



