THE BROOM-CORN PLANT 9 
for whisk brooms the demand is for straw that is 
fine, straight, tough, elastic and of a uniform green 
color without red tints. 
The dwarf type does not produce as heavy a yield 
of brush as the standard, but the former commands 
a very much higher price on the market. 
Standard and dwarf heads exhibiting desirable 
and undesirable characteristics are shown in Figure 
3. Dwarf heads, inclosed 
in the upper leaf sheath, 
are shown at A and B, while 
C represents a dwarf head of 
fine quality of brush. Con- 
trasted with this is the large 
dwarf head D, which is 
weak at the attachment of 
the straws. The other heads 
shown in the drawing repre- 
sent good and poor grades 
of standard heads. 
Occasionally, when the 
domestic supply is not equal 
to the demand, a small quan- 
tity of foreign grown brush 
iesimpotteds a. bhesimported)” "e.4 Coarse imported 
brush (A) and good domes- 
1 ; tic heads (B). The former 
material has coarse, brittle, fit heads. (Bye ne orture 
straw, as shown at A in of coarse stable brooms. 
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Figure 4. It is used in the manufacture of coarse 
heavy stable brooms, and to some extent it is 
worked into the centers of the low-grade house 
brooms. 
Our seedsmen sell broom-corn seed under several 
