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BULLETIN 836, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The season of 1914 was not favorable to high yields. The rain- 

 fall for the first four months of the year was below normal, which 

 left the soil without much stored moisture. One good soaking rain 



Fig. 3. — Heads of broom corn: (A) Good type, round fiber; (B) coarse, flat fiber: 

 (C) crooked head; and (D) poor, short fiber and a large central stem. 



