2 BROOM-CORN CULTURE 
TABLE I. STATEMENT 
SHOWING THE NUMBER OF 
FARMS, NUMBER OF ACRES, NUMBER OF POUNDS, AND 
VALUE OF BROOM-CORN, BY STATES, FOR THE 
CROP YEAR 1909. CENSUS OF IQIO. 
State Number | acres Yield Value 
of farms (pounds) 
Alabama ................- 115 52 17,910 1,562 
Arizona .. 1 14 6,000 400 
Arkansas . 294 332 106,576 8,198 
California 24 1,023 614,250 32,509 
Colorado .. 240 5,631 1,187,791 71,717 
Connecticut 2 mek 150 14 
Delaware 21 13 4,198 492 
Georgia. 8 22 7,067 694 
Illinois _ 1,854 38,452 | 19,309,425 1,457,172 
Indiana . 335, 323 153,259 13,461 
Iowa .. 49 156 75,370 6,670 
Kansas__ 1,728 41,064 8,768,853 593,947 
Kentucky . 1,041 342 157,286 13,641 
Louisiana 263 320 92,208 7,285 
Maryland ._.... 291 19 18,599 2,006 
Massachusetts. 2 2 2,160 168 
Michigan _._... 9 4 2,200 233 
Minnesota - 13 13 10,259 738 
Bisetssippl. 43 154 60,574 5,548 
Missouri - 1,225 5,339 1,774,536 115,243 
Nebraska ose 51 458 157,146 11,116 
New Jersey.. 10 11 6,760 658 
New Mexico. 368 4,470 644,892 33,492 
New York.......- 10 2 1,001 97 
North Carolina 128 15 6,493 549 
North Dakota... 3 18 7,250 725 
Ohio2- 22 -422.- 383 170 92,292 9,116 
Oklahoma . 10,151 216,350 | 42,741,725 2,559,235 
Pennsylvania. 727 108 45,582 6,253 
South Carolina - 3 2 650 63 
South Dakota.__-_ 14 4 35,400 3,408 
Tennessee ..__-. 2,220 1,348 347,064 27,733 
Texas 531 9,448 | 2,368,490 140,533 
Utah -. 1 Ss 200 12 
Virginia 666 107 46,016 3,586 
Washington - 6 183 45,040 2,905 
West Virginia - 397 45 30,456 3,229 
Wisconsin ......-...------ 12 28 14,830 1,026 
Total 23,238 326,102 |"78,959,958 $6,134,434 
According to the Eleventh Census there were grown 
in the United States in 1889, 93,425 acres of broom- 
57.429 pounds of 
brush. By 1899 the planting had been increased to 
corn, which produced a total of 39,5 
