. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. MARKETING BROOM CORN. 9 for the purpose should be erected. A typical broom-corn curing shed is shown in figure 2. Whatever the method employed in curing, the essential thing is to arrange the brush while green in thin layers away from rain and the direct rays of the sun and where winds will not disarrange it. It must be thoroughly dried. No attempt should be made to bale until the stems will break readily under pressure of the fingers. KILN DBYING. Another method of curing is kiln drying, which follows a wilting period
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. MARKETING BROOM CORN. 9 for the purpose should be erected. A typical broom-corn curing shed is shown in figure 2. Whatever the method employed in curing, the essential thing is to arrange the brush while green in thin layers away from rain and the direct rays of the sun and where winds will not disarrange it. It must be thoroughly dried. No attempt should be made to bale until the stems will break readily under pressure of the fingers. KILN DBYING. Another method of curing is kiln drying, which follows a wilting period of a day or two. This method is still in the experimental stage and as yet is confined to the districts in southern Texas. To facilitate quick drying a plan for artificially heating the broom corn is being perfected. A brief description of one of the plants will best serve to describe the process (see plate IV, fig. 1).. Fig. 2.—A typical curing shed for broom corn. The drying room consists of an airtight compartment about 20 by 70 feet and 8 feet in height. This room is asbestos lined to retain the heat. Beneath the floor, throughout the length of the room, extend two large flues, through which hot air is conducted to openings in the floor, which permit the hot air to enter the drying room at designated places. At the top of the room at one end are openings to allow the air to return to the heating chamber. The heating chamber, which contains several hundred feet of steam-heated pipe and is equipped with blowers, is connected with the flues that pass under the drying chamber and also with the return flues that carry the air back from the drying chamber. Thus there is provided a means for a complete circulation of heated air from the blowers, around the heating coils, into the drying chamber and back again to the blowers. Provision is made at the top of the 69894°—22—Bull. 1019 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di
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