PRODUCTION OF BROOM-CORN 5 
the price went up to $117 a ton. An increased acre- 
age the following year sent the price down to $94. 
In 1909 the partial failure of the crop in Oklahoma 
sent the price up to more than $200 a ton and neces- 
sitated the importation of a small amount of brush 
from Europe. 
Practically all of the broom-corn produced in the 
United States is made into brooms in this country. 
The export trade amounts to about $425,000 a year, 
of which a very large share is with Canada and 
Cuba. The shipment of broom-corn from this coun- 
try has increased from $240,164 in 1906 to $424,484 
in IgIo. 
