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The crop practically trebled 

 in thirty years. 



Broom-corn culture has 

 always been concentrated to 

 certain rather limited regions : 

 Four States in 1879 — lUi- 

 nois, Kansas, Missouri, and 

 New York — produced 80 per 

 cent of the crop. In 1889 

 four States, the first three 

 named above and Nebraska, 

 produced 89 per cent of the 

 crop. In 1 899 the last-named 

 four States and Oklahoma 

 produced 90 per cent of the 

 crop. 



In 1899 Illinois alone, which 

 has been the leading State 

 in broom-corn production for 

 forty years, produced 66.7 

 per cent of the entire crop 

 in the United States, while 

 50.1 per cent of the entire 

 crop was grown in three 

 counties. 



The twenty-two counties 

 of the United States produC' 

 ing more than 1000 acres 

 each are shown in the fol- 

 lowing table, as reported by 

 the Twelfth Census : — 



Fig. 115. — Broom-corn, sorghum, and hybrid between the two : 

 li, broom-corn ; 6, hybrid ; c, black-seeded sorghum. 



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