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1.  BROOM-CORN AND BROOMS.

A TREATISE ON RAISING BROOM-CORN
AND MAKING BROOMS, ON A SMALL OR LARGE SCALE.
PUBLISHED in 1913

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Considering the importance of the Broom-corn crop, it is surprising how little is said about it in works on general agriculture. The literature of the subject is mainly confined to articles in the various journals, and the directions published by sellers of seeds and implements. Some of the latter give very meager instructions, showing a singular want of knowledge of the present methods of culture, while others are clever and useful treatises, though recommending implements and machines adapted only to the prairie soils of the Western States. In view of the demand for information upon the cultivation of this crop, we at first proposed to gather the various articles that have appeared from time to time in the American Agriculturist, and publish them as a pamphlet. The articles are by different editors and contributors familiar with the crop in various localities, from Maine to New York and Pennsylvania, and westward to Ohio and Illinois ; but it was found that to reproduce these as they originally appeared, would involve a great deal of useless repetition, and one who wished information as to a particular point, would be obliged to refer to several different
places. Instead of giving the articles as they at first appeared, we have consolidated the information
given in all, as to the different operations, under the separate heads of "planting," cultivating," " harvesting," and the like, which makes it much more convenient for reference. Besides the articles referred to, we have embodied recent information obtained from correspondents, from dealers, broom-makers, and from the few publications that treat upon the subject. While it is in part founded upon the experience of those editors who have cultivated the crop, they only claim that it is a compilation from various available sources of information. To those who have kindly responded to our inquiries we return our thanks. THE EDITORS.

        CONTENTS.   Introduction 5
Broom-Corn and its Varieties 7
Description of the Plant 8
Introduction and Extent of Culture 10
Secondary Products, Seed 13
" Fodder and Stalks 14
Cultivation, The Land 15
Rotation 15
Manure 16
Hills or Drills 17
Quantity of Seed to the Acre 18
Time of Planting. 19
Cultivating 19
Implements 20
Thinning 21
Harvesting, Time for 21
Harvesting Dwarf Corn 22
Lopping, Bending or Breaking 22
Crooked Brush 23
Tabling 24
Cutting 25
Preparing for Market 26
Curing the Brush 26
Scraping or Removal of the Seed 26
Assorting the Brush 28
Drying or Curing House 29
Racks for Drying 29
Curing 30
Curing and Handling the Crop on the Large Scale. . . , . .31
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4: CONTENTS.
Baling 34
The Press 35
Marketing, 37
Commissions and Charges 37
Profits of the Crop 38
General Conclusions 38
Growing on the Large Scale 40
What a Ketired Grower says 42
Making Brooms 45
Home-Made Brooms 45
Home-Made Brooms, Another Method. 48
Making Brooms by Machinery 50
Extent of the Manufacture. . . ... 56 _____________________________________________________   2. Broom Corn Culture  (1912)  80 pages
BROOM-CORN CULTURE
By
A. G. McCALL
II
Professor of Agronomy in the College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
ILLUSTRATED PREFACE
This little book is written in response to a demand for information concerning the culture of broomcorn. For this information the author has drawn upon his own experience in growing the crop, and has supplemented this with the recent experience of practical growers and experiment station workers.
The writer is indebted to Mr. C. P. Hartley of the United States Department of Agriculture and to
several experiment stations for photographs and other material used in the preparation of this
volume.
A. G. McCALL.
Columbus, Ohio, 1912. CONTENTS
Chapter
I. Production of Broom-Corn ............. I
II. The Broom-Corn Plant ................ 6
III. Soil and Climatic Conditions ........... 12
IV. Date and Method of Planting ........... 16
V. The Importance of Good Seed .......... 20
VI. Testing the Vitality of the Seed ........ 25
VII. Enemies of Broom-Corn ............... 27
VIII. Harvesting Broom-Corn ............... 29
IX. Broom-Corn By-Products .............. 47
X. The Manufacture of Brooms ........... 49 ___________________________   3.  Broom Corn Smut  52 pages
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,
Agricultural Experiment Station.
URBANA, MARCH, 1897.
BULLETIN No. 47.
BROOM-CORN SMUT. LIFE HISTORY.
Nature of smut. We have been proceeding so far on the
assumption that the nature of smut is understood by the reader.
It is a fact, however, that all growers of broom-corn do not realize that smut is a plant, though of low development, just as much as 'is broom-corn, which is one of high development. The vague ideas held by some may be illustrated by the fact that such think smut is the result of insect work, or that it is a
" bastard growth due to the effect of sorghum on broom-corn," etc.
Smut belongs to the very low group of plants called fungi plants of very simple development, usually of very small size, and destitute of the power of directly forming their food out of
mineral matter, moisture, and gases. This being the case, fungi must get their food from either dead or living organic matter.
In the case of smut it gets its food from the living broom-corn plant, and so it is called a parasitic fungus. Like broom-corn it has a vegetative part concerned with obtaining the supply of
food and with growth, and a reproductive part concerned chiefly with the production of future individuals like itself.