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Show r -a Jm Growing Mushrooms h in Your Own Home r Can -Be Cultivated Down in the Cellar Beda ;H 'Must Be -Wet .Where 'There Is' ' 'H a j, Furnace :H COMPOST all manure outside in a dry place, turning dally to prevent pre-vent burning,. In this way avoiding avoid-ing tho pest of manure flies and odor of fresh manure through tho house. Unless vou do this tho files (for somo time) will sling you ovcry timo you go Into tho collar. Mako all beds of manure, packed solidly to depth of about 14 Inches Spawn whon tho tnmpcraturo of the bed Is about So degrees. In about twelve days' time tho spawn will havo run through the bed: then cover the bed with two Inches of fresh loam. After the beds aro spawned. If conditions con-ditions are right, one may reasonably expect mushrooms In s,lx or eight weeks, bpt I have found conditions aro not usually right In a furnace-heated furnace-heated cellar For three years I followed fol-lowed all directions faithfully, and never a mushroom to reward my labor, and It was labor Indeed, for L put In largo l.fds. Intending to put nly mushrooms mush-rooms on the market Just when prices wore highest. All seemed so easy, failure did not seem possible. My Instructions told mo not to wet tho beds, but I havo found this absolutely abso-lutely necessary In a furnace-heated cellar. Thoro was where I failed for thrco years no moisture, no mush-1 room. Now I soak my beds whon i dry, doing this when tbero arc few - mushrooms in ' sight, as water will -H cause them to turn brown. "When tho jH furnaco ls In use I cover tho bods with M old carpets, raised on sticks, as tho "H bqds retain tho molsturo longer when fH covered. lH When ono ha 3 a separate cellar 'H whero tho right degreo of hcat can bo !H kept, by all means uso it. Here keep H al walls and walks wot, as In a rocky lH cave. Success is almost sure whero iH ono has theso conditions. I know a ' H young man who has such a collar. He 1 keeps it wet down with a hose, aud H has Just the right degreo of heat and . H moisture. Besides going to business H ho raises mushrooms for market In lM this cellar. In my Judgment it is tho jl dry heat of tho furnaco that Is respon- k IH sblo for tho failure of mushrooms to jH be of great profit In tho furnaco cellar. M I had a bed spawned In tho fall and IH It did not begin to bear until tho H warm, damp days of spring, H "When one onco understands the do- M grees of heat and moisture the mu6h- H room requires, with good spawn one H may rcusouably expect success. For jf general directions there arc none bet- jH ter than those which may be obtained jH by writing to the department of agrl- H cultfiro at Washington fc tho bullotln H on Tnushrooiu culture. The New York J State experiment stntlon at Ithaca xH publishes ono especially for amateurs, . jH which may also be had for tho tsking. 'il |