The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-27
MUCH BROOM CORN
Yield Will Run About a Ton to
Every Ten Acres.
Price Is Ranging Around S1OO
and Acreage Is Heavy.
MORE "HURL"IN FIBRE
Oklahoma Reports Phenomenal
Growth of the Brush.
Expectations at Liberal Are for
One Thousand Car Loads.

N4SlHld' Nall, sept. Zf.-Ihat the
broom corn crop this year is a large
one, is the statement of Wichita deaf
ers. Both the acreage and the yield
per acre is much larger than it was
last year ]. P. Duncan estimated that
the yield for western Kansas and Okla
homa will be between $4,000 and 10000
tons. The extremely large yield is due
to the high prices prevailing the last
two years. The quality of this years
crop Is said to be poorer than the aver
age. This IS the season for the har-
Vesting and baling of broom corn
The broom corn yield in western
Kansas this year is the largest that
there has ever been in that country"
SAID j. T. Duncan, broom corn mer-
chant Throughout western Kansas
and Oklahoma the yield is three times
as heavy per acre as it was last year
and the acreage is a great deal larger.
There is almost no place where broom
corn was grown last year where there
has not been an increase in acreage
and yield this year. This increase Is
due to the high prices of last year
The best broom corn country is in
western Kansas and Oklahoma. This
district can be marked off by drawing
line south from KiOwa to the Texas
line. Broom corn grows in half of the
states in the union. In Oklahoma when
the wheat crop is early the farmers put
in their broom corr on the wheat stub
Bile and thus raise two crops on the
same field. The price of broom corn
at present varies between 800 and $125
per tom
Southwestern Kansas Greatest.
H. Pelton of the Western Warehouse
Broom Corn company said: The
broom corn region of the United States
is from Nebraska to the Gulf and from
the Missouri river west to the Pacific
coast. There are other states in which
broom corn is grown. Illinois and
The greatest broom corn country. how
ever, is in southwestern Kansas and
northwestern Oklahoma; in the strip of
Oklahoma formerly known as no mans
CimarrOn counties; and in Kansas
Stanton, Morton. Hamilton, Kearney,
Grant and Stevens counties. Liberal is
the greatest farmers broom corn mar
ket in the world. Wichita is the
greatest concentrating market in the
world handling between $2.500,000 AMI
81, 100000 worth of the product annually
AT Liberal they expect to load a,
thousand cars of broom corn this year
The largest output to date was that of
1906 when they loaded 700 cars. The
last two years the yield was much
lighter.
1.-The broom corn industry in Wichita
is comparatively young. About 1903
not more than five carloads were
handled a year in Wichita. This year
all the dealers combined will handle
about 5000 carloads. New York is the
second largest broom corn market IN
the country as it is the concentrating
center of imported broom corn But
there are several dealers here who ny
themselves handle more broom corn
daily than the combined dealers Of
New York Chicago and st. Louis.
Wichita is tributary to the great broom
corn centers. Between so and 20 per
cent of the total western crop Will he
handled here. The Wichita dealers do
not handle the broom corn by the bale
but by the carload. There are no re-
tail dealers here. In season some Of
them will handle as many as 20 car
loads a day"
Wichita's Traffic Growth.
The growth of the broom corn traffic
in Wichita has been due to the cor
centrating privileges granted by the
railroads which makes it possible to
store broom corn in the warehouses all
winter and ship it on the next spring
without a greater cost than II 1t had
been shipped through. Better banking
ADVANTAGES have also helped the bust
ness Hutchinson was formerly the
western concentrating center.
An average yield for broom corn is a
ton from seven to eight acres. This
year the yield is a ton from about ten
acres. In some lOcduIleS the ylelu lG
very heavy Around LawtOn and
Lindsey, Oklahoma, fields are reported
producing a ton to four acres
The outer part of the broom is made
from the long fibers of the corn known
as .'hurl" corn. The inside is shorter.
This year there is a larger crop of hurl
corn.
The price of broom corn September
of this year was 500 per ton for the
best quality About January 1 the
price for the best grade was between
$3.50 and 5000 per ton.
The VIC fern Warehouse company
imported corn this year from Argentine
republic in June. The best of the i'm
ported product comes from South
America Importations are also made
from Hungary, France and Italy some
times but only when the domestic
broom corn is superior both in fiber
and color.
Broom corn is a successful crop in
the west. It will grow in any SOIL anu
COY, apd,1ra GREAT drought.