Scientific American/Series 1/Volume 1/Issue 1/New Article of Export

New Article of Export.—We are told that a Yankee broom maker in Ohio has leased some twelve hundred acres of bottom land, on the Scioto river, near Columbus, and planted the entire plot in broom corn, with a view to export the crop to England, where he intends to proceed himself, and engage extensively in the manufacturing of brooms, taking with him the wood for the handles, and the machinery used for the purpose. Brooms made from the American broom corn are so much superior, for various uses, to any thing to be had in England, that they have become, within a few years past, quite a favorite in that country and are now exported thither in large quantities.—Ex. paper.