Show MUSHROOM G ROWERS GROWERS As the result of a serious case of mushroom poisoning in a mushroom growers family recently the mushroom specialists of the U S department ment of agriculture haxe have issued a warning to commercial a and ath er growers of mushrooms to rii regard d with suspicion any abnormal mushrooms which in their beds it i seems that occasionally sporadic f forms appear in mushroom beds persist for a bayor day or two and then disappear sap pear these are generally manure inhabiting species and may be observed shortly after the beds have been cased in instance cited however these thesa fungi appeared in in considerable burn nurn aug fug numbers n ers at th the e time the ed edible ible should have bean eiji ready read ifor jor the h e market an and t the ie dealer e er s ap pp s ad it was probably ay a n new w brown variety dariety and tried it in hi his s own f family a ily As 8 a result five perso persons s were ere rendered absolutely helpless and were saved after several hours only through ahe assistance of a second phi ician who had had experience I 1 peri ence with this thi ype of poisoning I 1 in an fn the opinion of the depart ament ent this me case is peculiarly significant ant and demonstrates chati that the grower must be able to distinguish I 1 campe from any of the wild forma form of mushrooms that may appear in I 1 the beds under the circum cincu n stances se ances the department strongly urges every grower to make himself thoroughly familiar with the cultivated species |