The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-06-30
CORN
LOOKS DUBIOUS
Excessive Rains Have Not Helped
Crop And Market Is
Uncertain
REGARDED A TICKLE INDUSTRY

Oklahoma broOmcOrn growers are
looking for little better price for
their crops this year, but It Is not
certain that the demand Will be any
greater than 1t was last year. and the
price demands to Il great extent ON the
demand II is said that the acreage
IN the state this year Is less than last
will make guess as 10 the Size VI
the crop.
The brOOmcorn crop depends for its
price On general conditions II is stated
by the dealers IN this city. If bust
ness is good throughout the country
broomcorn will be higher on account
Of the increased demand II there IL
depression, the broomcorn market
feels II the same as the market for
other commodities BrUOmcOrn prices
are not quoted on the board uf trade.
Every year produces crop Of Its own
and the quality IL seldom the same.
The prices range higher or lower
every year While brOomcorn Is Il
staple In certain sense, II has no
fixed price and Is subject to fluctua.
lions.
Prices OF Last Year
Last year the broOmcUrn crop was
good and the acreage was large con
siderably greater than this yeur, be.
cause W much " the land In the
OrOomcOrn section was this year given
to wheat While there was no eN-
traordinary demand for the product
last year brOomcOrn sold for so to
800 ton Quality had something to
do with the price, as 1t does every
year, but not so much as would be
expected, for supply and demand are
the governing factors to II much
greater extent
There have been times said a
broomcorn dealer, when poor grade
sold AZ high as $50 ton. That WAS
because the supply was short
Two large supply houses In okla
homa CITY buy a big share Of the
crop produced In this state, but the
bulk Of It still goes to Wichita, where
the large warehouses are located Half
dozen JObbers In Oklahoma city are
active In the season, buying In the
fields and shipping direct TO eastern
customers There are two large broom
factories here, one Of them the largest,
anywhere In the southwest, and Il
number of smaller concerns make
broOms The industry, FROM the grow
ing ot broomcOrn to the making "
brooms, Is one of the largest. II there
IN included IN II the buying, storing
and shipping Of the product.
Worlds Greatest Producer
Oklahoma produces the bulk NJ the
broOmcorn used IN the United States
aud supplies large part Of the pro
duct that II exported. The section In
which 1t is grown is the northwest
part Of the state, extending a. far
south rs the central part on a line
west Of Oklahoma City In the south.
ern part of the section where II IL
grown. broomcorn Is now waist high
In some fields In the northern part
" the state the growing crop IL not
more than six inches high In some
localities. 1t is said that broomcorn
planted now would likely make n fair
crop with the season favorable by be-
Ing little late
The heavy rains have not been fav.
orable TO the growing crop. according
to recent reports. but II IL not dam
aged to any great extent This years
crop will bring the growers an i'm
mense sum II the prices range as high
as usual There Is not much Of last
years crop left In the warehouses, and
that on hand may he shipped at any
time 10 the factories leaving the
warehouses empty and In readiness
for the crop that viii begin TO come
In a little after the first Of August