CHAPTER IX 



Success and Failure, Expenses 



Can success in mushroom work be 

 counted upon? Not at all. Indeed there 

 have been innumerable failures; but at the 

 same time there are conspicuous successes. 

 If you will examine into the record of those 

 who have failed with poultry work, with 

 orange groves, with carnation culture, or in 

 any other agricultural or floricultural en- 

 terprises requiring constant, intelligent at- 

 tention you will find that the main factor has 

 been that of lack of information, or inca- 

 pacity, on the one hand, and deception or 

 extreme bad luck on the other. It is un- 

 doubtedly true that a large number of the 

 failures in mushroom growing have been 

 the direct result of crediting irresponsible 

 or deceptive advertisements. It is fair to 



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