MAKING BROOMS. 



The manufacture of Brooms, like other mechanical 

 trades, can be best learned by practical instruction in the 

 needed manipulation. Still, the manufacture is a simple 

 one, and a person of fair mechanical ingenuity can learn 

 to make brooms from a description of the process, and 

 by practice, become in time expert at the trade. 



HOME-MADE BKOOMS. 



Thrifty farmers those who look to the small econo- 

 mies never buy that which can be as well made on the 

 farm. By "as well" we mean not quality alone, but 

 that the time may be profitably expended in doing the 

 job in hand. It is very poor economy to give to making 

 an article the time which, if expended on the regular 

 work of the farm, would earn more than enough money 

 to pay for the article and time expended in procuring it. 

 In the case of brooms, it is often cheaper to raise a small 

 patch of Broom-corn, and have the boys make it up on 

 rainy days, than to buy the brooms ready made. While 

 home-made brooms may not be as handsome as the 

 " boughten " ones, they will do quite as good work- 

 provided the right person is at the other end of the 

 handle as those finished off with shining wire. We recol- 

 lect the remark of one of our Ohio friends, who said : 

 " When my daughters want a new broom, they go to the 

 shop and make one. " This implies that the work is not 

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