. Descriptive catalogue and price list : flower, field and garden seeds. MUSHROOM SPAWN. CULTURE—Mushrooms may be grown in any place, where the proper temperature, which is from 50° to 60° F., can be maintained, and when it is moist enough without being very damp or constantly drip- ping with water. If the temperature is below 50° or above 63° it is not safe to try to raise them. Cellars, caves, abandoned mines, or even some kind of a shed may be used to grow mushrooms. In growing mush- rooms the beds should be constructed of stable manure, which has been fermented. Obtain fresh manure with so
. Descriptive catalogue and price list : flower, field and garden seeds. MUSHROOM SPAWN. CULTURE—Mushrooms may be grown in any place, where the proper temperature, which is from 50° to 60° F., can be maintained, and when it is moist enough without being very damp or constantly drip- ping with water. If the temperature is below 50° or above 63° it is not safe to try to raise them. Cellars, caves, abandoned mines, or even some kind of a shed may be used to grow mushrooms. In growing mush- rooms the beds should be constructed of stable manure, which has been fermented. Obtain fresh manure with some of the litter, which has been well tramped, and pile in heaps about three feet deep when well pressed down with the fork, and wet it thoroughly. In five or six days it should be turned over, mixing the cold and hot manure. In a week a second turning will be necessary, and, if dry, water again. If well pressed down and merely moist there will be no danger of a sour fer- mentation, and the compost will be ready for use in two or three weeks, according to the weather. As soon as the manure is neither wet nor dry, which can be ascer- tained by squeezing some manure, and if water cannot be squeezed out readily it is in the right condition to be mixed \ip with one-fourth of good loam. Make your beds about four feet wide, eighteen or twenty inches deep and any length desired. Press down the manure with a fork and let the beds stand for about a week before spawning, as they are too hot. Then cut a brick into 12 pieces, insert them, from one to two inches deep and from 8 to 10 inches apart each way. Do not sprinkle any unless very dry, or too much moisture will retard germination. In two weeks, examine the beds, and if the spawn is running (which can be known by white, thread-like fibres seen in the manure), it is ready to be cased. Casing consists in applying a layer of loam, neither clayey nor too sandy, from 1 to 1% inches deep to the surface of the bed. This loam should be
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