. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. 66 MUSHEOOMS, HOW TO GEOW XHEM. it beautifully, and it bears fine mushrooms. Still, it is no better than plain horse manure. The poorest kind of C0A7 manure is the fresh manure of cattle fed with green grass, ensilage, and root crops; indeed, such ma- nure can not be used alone ; it needs to be freely mixed with some absorbent, as dry Icam, German moss, dry liorse droppings, and the like, and even then I have utterly failed to perceive its advautages; it is a dirty mass to work, and q
. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. 66 MUSHEOOMS, HOW TO GEOW XHEM. it beautifully, and it bears fine mushrooms. Still, it is no better than plain horse manure. The poorest kind of C0A7 manure is the fresh manure of cattle fed with green grass, ensilage, and root crops; indeed, such ma- nure can not be used alone ; it needs to be freely mixed with some absorbent, as dry Icam, German moss, dry liorse droppings, and the like, and even then I have utterly failed to perceive its advautages; it is a dirty mass to work, and quite cold. In the manufacture of spawn, however, cow manure is a requisite ingredient, and here again the manure of dry fed animals is better than that of those fed with green and other soft food. But my chief objection to the use of cow manure in the mushroom beds is that it is a favorite breeding and feeding place for hosts of perni- cious buga and grubs and earth worms,—creatures that we had better , rather than encourage in, our mushroom beds. German Peat Moss Stable Manure for Mush- room Beds.—Although I have not yet had an opportunity of trying this material for mushroom beds, Mr. Gardner, of Jobstown, has great faith in it; so, too, has that prince of English mushroom growers, Eich- ard Gilbert, of Burghley, who re- lates his success with it in growing no. 20. bal^f gek- mushrooms in the English garden "^^ ^'^at moss. papers. This peat moss is a comparatively new thing in this country, and is used in place of straw for bedding horses. It is a great absorbent and soaks up much of the urine that, were straw nsed instead, would be likely to pass off into the drains. To this is ascribed its great virtue in mushroom culture. It should be mixed with loam when tised for mushroom beds. Sawdust Stable Manure for Mushroom Beds.— This is tl»o manure obtained from stables where sawdust. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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