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| heavy production, and the alluring possibilities of producing two 
j and perhaps three crops a year with one planting induced many to 
Biter the business on a large scale. During the war prices were high 
and the business prospered to such an extent that extensive prepara- 
_ tions were made cooperatively to provide for every convenience that 
| might assist in putting the brush on the market in the best possible 
“manner. Among other things, warehouses were provided. Kiln- 
| drying plants were constructed to provide a means for curing and 
handling broom corn in wet weather and to enable the growers to 
| place their brush on the market at least 15 days earlier than by shed 
or open air curing. . 
The associations extended their activities to the cooperative sell- 
“ing of broom corn and in fact played an important part in the mar- 
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keting of the southern Texas crops. They have not met with the 
success the producers anticipated, however, and in a number of cases 
the associations have ceased to function. Inefficient management 
and costly experiments in developing facilities for handling the crop 
are given as the principal causes for this condition rather than any 
inherent weakness in the system. Much good might have resulted if 
the organizations had been founded on a good, substantial basis and . 
had been managed properly. 
In New Mexico. some years ago a movement was launched to or- 
ganize a number of cooperative marketing associations among the 
broom-corn growers of that State. This movement was prompted by 
the unsatisfactory marketing conditions then existing and by the 
feeling that the marketing of broom corn at that time was under the 
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