MARKET AND PRODUCTION 



point, says: ^'If we had to depend upon 

 foreign spawn, as in the past, mushrooms 

 would still be scarce and high." The very 

 fact of its being widely known that mush- 

 rooms are now successfully grown in larger 

 quantities every year is sufficient indication 

 that no other '^boost" for the industry is re- 

 quired. 



It is not easy to estimate the total amount 

 of mushroom production in the United 

 States, since no account whatever can be 

 taken of small growers in those cities where 

 there is no well developed market for mush- 

 rooms. Basing an estimate, however, on 

 the amount produced in the vicinity of the 

 larger cities, it seems certain that not less 

 than 5,000,000 pounds w^ere marketed dur- 

 ing the season of 1913-14. From a personal 

 investigation of the matter, the writer has 

 been able to ascertain that on the Atlantic 

 coast all of the larger cities and fashionable 

 resorts for tourists from Palm Beach, Flor- 

 ida, to Portland, Maine, were fairly well 

 supplied with fresh mushrooms during the 



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