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surrounded upon three sides by a platform a, a, upon 

 which the brush is unloaded from the wagons ; within, 

 also upon three sides, is the sorting-table 1), 5, at which 

 the sorters, all Dutch women, work inside. The brush 

 is sorted before it is cleaned, and is taken from the sort- 

 ing-table to the cleaning- table c, in front of the machines 



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Fig. 10. PLAN OF SOKTING-nOUSE. 



or scrapers, of which there are three, on the open side 

 of the building, seen at d, d, d. The seed is collected 

 from the scrapers into a pile, from which it is removed 

 with carts. 



BALING. After the Broom-corn is thoroughly dry, the 

 next step is to bale that which is to be sent to market. 

 This operation should receive great care and close super- 

 vision, as the salableness and price of the crop much de- 

 pend upon the appearance of the brush when it reaches 

 the market. This may be said of every product of the 

 farm, from strawberries up to apples and Broom-corn ; 

 the appearance sells it. One not familiar with the ways 

 of markets, cannot understand why his neighbor's 

 Broom-corn, grown on the same kind of land, in the 

 same manner, and put into the drying sheds in precisely 

 the same condition as his, brought enough more than his 



