54 BROOM-CORN CULTURE 
Factory-Made Brooms.—At the present time 
practically all of the broom-corn grown in the 
United States is manufactured into brooms in large 
factories which are equipped with machines for 
handling the crop in an economical manner. 
Fig. 21. Broom-winding machine used in large factories. 
In some of the small factories the machines are 
operated by hand, but the larger establishments 
make use of power machines for all of the processes 
of converting the raw material into finished brooms 
or whisks. Figure 19 shows a tread-power machine 
