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Broomcorn—The frontiersman’s cash crop

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About 50,000,000 brooms are manufactured annually in the United States from the long fibrous branches in the inflorescences oi this corn-like crop.

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  1. U. S. Department of Agriculture, USA

    John H. Martin (Senior Agronomist)

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Contribution from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Md.

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Martin, J.H. Broomcorn—The frontiersman’s cash crop . Econ Bot 7, 163–181 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02863061

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