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    Broom-Corn and Brooms - A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms, on a Small or Large Scale, Written and Compiled by the Editors of The American Agriculturist
    Broom-Corn and Brooms - A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms, on a Small or Large Scale, Written and Compiled by the Editors of The American Agriculturist
    Broom-Corn and Brooms - A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms, on a Small or Large Scale, Written and Compiled by the Editors of The American Agriculturist
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    Broom-Corn and Brooms - A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms, on a Small or Large Scale, Written and Compiled by the Editors of The American Agriculturist

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    This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on harvesting broom-corn and making brooms on a small or large scale, written and compiled by the editors of “The American Agriculturalist”. “Broom-Corn And Brooms” contains all the information needed to make a range of old-style brooms, and will appeal to both those interested in making brooms and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. Contents include: “Cultivation”, “Harvesting”, “Preparing for Market”, “Growing On The Large Scale”, “Making Brooms”, “Another Method”, and “Making Brooms by Machinery”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on homesteading.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781446547762
    Broom-Corn and Brooms - A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms, on a Small or Large Scale, Written and Compiled by the Editors of The American Agriculturist

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      Broom-Corn and Brooms - A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms, on a Small or Large Scale, Written and Compiled by the Editors of The American Agriculturist - Read Books Ltd.

      INTRODUCTION.

      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.

      BROOM-CORN AND BROOMS.

      BROOM-CORN AND ITS VARIETIES.

      Formerly the Indian Millet, also known as Doura Corn, and by other names, the Chinese Sugar-cane and the Broom-corn, were regarded as distinct species of Sorghum, hut botanists now look upon them as mere varieties of one species, Sorghum vulgare. The Millet has been grown in Africa, the East Indies, China, and other warm countries for centuries, and like other grains which have been so long in cultivation, is not known in the wild state. The different varieties are much unlike in external appearance and uses, hut no more so than we find in some other cultivated plants ; indeed there is nearly as much difference in the varieties of Indian corn ; the sweet and popping kinds of which are unlike the tall-growing horse-tooth corn of the Southern States. When a plant is grown for a particular purpose, the cultivator endeavors to keep it improving in the direction most useful to him, by saving seeds from the plants best developed for his purpose. In Africa, Sorghum furnishes a large part of the food of the natives, and it is cultivated for its grain in various other countries, the sub-varieties of the grain-producing forms being numerous. In China and some other countries, where rice is abundant, this is less valued as grain, but has been cultivated for centuries for its sweet sap. The young stalk of the grain-bearing kinds has a sweet juice, but this goes to form, the grain, and soon disappears ; by long cultivation. with a view only to the quality of the juice, the seeds are less abundant and contain less starch, and while in the grain-bearing plants the head is so full and heavy as to bend over the top of the stalk and hang down, in the sugar-cane varieties the seed cluster is slender and usually erect ; there are also sub-varieties of this. In the Broom-corn varieties, neither the grain or the quality of the sap are the objects sought for, but a special and unusual development of the stems of the flower or seed-cluster ; it makes no difference if it bear few or no seed provided those stems are long and fine. We cannot learn that Sorghum vulgare has been cultivated as a broom-making material in any other country than the United States until recently. It is said to be cultivated now for this purpose in Italy, France, and Germany.

      DESCRIPTION OP THE PLANT.

      Broom-corn is an annual grass with a general resemblance to Indian corn, but has narrower leaves, and instead of having its male and female flowers in separate places like the corn, with its tassels and cars, both kinds of flowers are in the cluster at the top. The flowers are of two kinds ; one is perfect, i. e., with both stamens and pistil, and seated directly upon the branch ; each perfect flower is accompanied by an imperfect one, which is raised up on a little stalk ; this consists either of empty

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