MUSHROOM GROWING 



proportion of the amount shipped from 

 France. A prominent importer estimates 

 that for the year 1906 between four and five 

 million pounds of canned mushrooms were 

 shipped to the United States. Since that 

 time the increased growth of mushrooms in 

 this country has sufficed to hold the importa- 

 tion of the canned product at a stationary 

 figure. 



Mushroom growing in the United States. 

 Practically all of the mushrooms grown in 

 the United States are marketed fresh. This 

 will continue to be the case so long as the 

 industry is so limited and is confined to the 

 vicinity of great centers of population where 

 good prices prevail. The time has not ar- 

 rived when canning deserves to be encour- 

 aged in this country. One could fifteen years 

 ago almost count upon one's fingers the im- 

 portant and successful growers of the coun- 

 try, and any one planting 5,000 square feet 

 of beds was considered an extensive grower. 

 To-day the largest mushroom planters re- 

 port areas of 100,000 square feet or more. 



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