The sorghum known as "broomcorn" was supposedly first cultivated in the United States by Benjamin Franklin.    From Wordnik.com.  [10. Sorghum: Specialty Types] Reference

For instance, broomcorn stalks are used for paper in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types] Reference

In the United States broomcorn became, if anything, even more important than in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types] Reference

By the 1930s, for example, American farmers were cultivating 160,000 hectares of broomcorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [10. Sorghum: Specialty Types] Reference

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson listed broomcorn among six important agricultural crops of Virginia.    From Wordnik.com.  [11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types] Reference

It is miles of split-rail fence, moss on a wood shingle roof, broomcorn and flax in a pioneer garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proposal: A great deal on a New Deal] Reference

He apparently brought the seed from England in 1725 (when he was only 19) and grew the first broomcorn in North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types] Reference

There are several major domesticated cereals in the world, namely barley, foxtail and broomcorn millet, maize, rice, and wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Cereal and Civilization] Reference

In the competition with man-made fibers and the vacuum cleaner - both of which should in theory have swept it aside - broomcorn is holding its own in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types] Reference

If you have a green thumb, you can start by growing your own broomcorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

Place the broomcorn in a bucket of hot water with the cut ends submerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

The broomcorn is prepared by cutting the stalks differently for each layer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

To make a hearth broom, 28 heads of broomcorn are used for the inside layer of bristles and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

A friend spiced up her Christmas tree with sprigs of broomcorn harvested from her grandparents 'farm.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But even if you can't grow broomcorn, you can order it from a supplier (see Resources at the end of this article).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

Sorghum - also known as milo, millet and broomcorn -- is the grain of choice in hot, dry places where corn won't grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slashfood] Reference

Another time Stevens went to see a man hanged at Millidgeville, and his wife set me to cut broomcorn during his absence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England] Reference

Known as milo, durra, or broomcorn, sorghum is a grass species that can grow up to five metres tall and is extremely resistant to aridity and hot conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

"How blue and hazy the hills looked; how cool the breeze blew up from the river; how like a silver lake the old pickerel pond sweltered under the summer sun over beyond the pasture and broomcorn, and how merry was the music of the birds and bees!".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Book of Profitable Tales] Reference

It must have been then and in those days and during that time when the grass and short brush, like so much amber and jade, emerged from the snow and the poet Li Po, who while traveling within the ten thousand crags of the Tanggula Mountains, looked up from his jar of transparent broomcorn wine and asked thoughtlessly "how is it that before now I have understood nothing of the true nature of poetry?" and then without further reflection he proceeded in the direction of the Yangtze river, downward from the highest plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village of Humans] Reference

The broomcorn plant is unlike other sorghums.    From Wordnik.com.  [11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types] Reference

Japanese millet, broomcorn millet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

4,000-year-old noodle made from foxtail millet and broomcorn millet - the oldest noodle found to date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spew] Reference

The material is called broomcorn (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference