. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. SPAWNING THE BEDS. 97 imum (120° or over). Where the heat in the middle of the bed never reached 115°, the spawn put in when the bed was made, and molded over the same day, yielded a small crop of mushrooms. A bed in which the heat was declining was spawned at 110°; this bore a very good crop, and at 100° and under to 65° good crops in eveiy case were secured, with several days' delay in bearing in the case of the lowest temperatures. But notwithstand- ing these facts, my advice to al
. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. SPAWNING THE BEDS. 97 imum (120° or over). Where the heat in the middle of the bed never reached 115°, the spawn put in when the bed was made, and molded over the same day, yielded a small crop of mushrooms. A bed in which the heat was declining was spawned at 110°; this bore a very good crop, and at 100° and under to 65° good crops in eveiy case were secured, with several days' delay in bearing in the case of the lowest temperatures. But notwithstand- ing these facts, my advice to all beginners in mushroom growing is, wait until the heat of the bed is on the decline and fallen to at least 90°, before inserting the spawn. Writing to me about spawning his beds, Mr. Withing- ton, of New Jersey, says: "I believe a bed spawned at 60° to 70°, and kept at 55° after the mushrooms appear, will give better results than one spawned at a higher temperature, say 90°." Preparing the Spawn.—If brick spawn is used cut up the bricks (standard size) into ten or twelve pieces with a sharp hatchet, and avoid, as much as Brick Spawn Cut in Pieces for Plantdtg. making many crumbs, as is the case generally when a hammer or mallet is used in breaking the bricks. Extra large pieces of spawn are apt to produce large clumps of mushrooms, but this is not always an advantage, as when many mushrooms grow together in a clump they are apt to be somewhat undersized, and in gathering we can not pluck them all out clean enough so as not to leave a part of the "root" in the ground to poison the 7. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Falconer, William. New York : Orange Judd Co.
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