A complete course on the art of corn broom making! This listing is for a CD-Rom republication of the 1876 Treatise on raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms.

We have included lots of other fun stuff, plus the 159 page book - The Brushmaker, and the secrets of his craft and romance, a 1925 catalog of broom making machinery and equipment, a catalog from 1883 illustrating all sorts of vintage brushes, brooms and mops, the Canada Brush Company Catalog from 1910, and a portfolio of 28 vintage broom patents - some from as early as 1886. Lots of early broom design illustrations and history!

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
:: 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

Library Includes a collection of seven {7} books:


:: Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms {1876} ~ 76 pages.

:: The Brushmaker, and the secrets of his craft and romance ~ 159 pages.

:: Opportunities for Handicapped Men in the Brush Industry {1919} ~ 74 pages.

:: Illustrated catalog of brushes manufactured by Canada Brush Co {1910} ~ 108 pages.

:: 1883 Walter Woods Brooms and Brushes Catalog {1883} ~ 64 pages.

:: Broom Corn Culture {1912} ~ 80 pages.

:: Portfolio of 28 vintage broom patents