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GARDENING. 



Mar. /. 



by anj'body else. It is very plain to see 

 from your "letter that you are a beginner 

 in growing mushrooms; two or three 

 years from now, if you stick to mush- 

 rooms so long you will write very differ- 

 ently. While we know of several people 

 who make part of the spawn they use,W. 

 Forbes of Rhode Island is the only one in 

 the country so far as we know, who 

 makes it for sale. Then who are the man- 

 ufacturers you refer to? Perhaps you 

 mean dealers who sell spawn, if j'ou do, 

 please remember they are not the manu- 

 facturers, nor do they get certain brands 

 of spawn specially made for themselves 

 as a dry goods merchant may have a cer- 

 tain pattern of cloth, but probably if you 

 buy spawn from half a dozen different 

 dealers, likely enough all of them got their 

 stock from the same manufacturer, just 

 as they get certa'n lines of seeds from the 

 same seed grower. If this should be so, 

 and 3'our tests showed very different re- 

 sults, just think of the light you wouldbe 

 in in the eyes of those dealers; or if you 

 made a public statement that one man's 

 spawn was worthless while another s 

 was most potent, when in fact the spaw n 

 in both instances was the same, don t 

 you think some one would have a ju^t 

 claim for damages? We have been grow 

 ing mushrooms for years and have had a 

 full share of success, medium and failure 

 in the business, and we have tested se\ 

 cral makes of home and imported spawn 

 and long experience has taught us mod 

 erationandcajtionin expressing an opni 

 ion as to their merits. 



Mushrooms, average vield.-W. Stott 

 South H7th street, Philadelphia asks 

 what is the average yield to the square 

 yard per year? Ans. A fair average is 

 3-5 of a pound p;r square foot per bed 

 and as most gro a ers make two be s or 

 plantings a year, the average for both 

 crops would be 1 1-5 pounds. But thert 

 i9 no crop that we know of that you can 

 approximate less closely than you can 

 mushrooms. Of course we have seen 

 some verj' big crops, far heav'er than 3 "i 

 of a pound to the foot, but then we also 

 have seen beds without a single mush 

 room, and with the same grower. 



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