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Show MAN "MINES" MUSHROOr: Expert Uses Deserted Coal Mine in West Virginia as Farm With Success. Morgantown, W. Va. The queerer the place selected for a mushroom garden, gar-den, the finer, it seems, is the growth of this popular table delicacy. The last word in a mushroom farm, however, how-ever, is such a garden placed in the depths of a deserted coal mine, hundreds hun-dreds of feet below the ground. Not far from Morgantown there Is located this old coal mine, known as the Pittsburgh coal seam in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and West Virginia. Theodore F. Imhaeh, an assistant in the state agricultural experimenting station at Morgantown, obtained a permit from the owners of the property. lie encamped en-camped on the first level, and made chemical analysis of the rocky soil. He found it was rich in moisture and its constituents exactly those needed by edible fungi for their quickest and most luxuriant Growth, tie. therefore, started a mushroom farm and found the spot was ideal for his purpose. This "mushroom mine" makes lar;e shipments weekly to the city m:' "'e:s |