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PROSPECTS 



or waste space for a greenhouse 'will answer for 

 mushroom culture. 



Don't forget to find out about the wild mush- 

 rooms that are good eating, for your own ben- 

 efit. There is only one poisonous family, whilst 

 there are more than a hundred wholesome ones 

 that commonly grow wild. So it is only neces- 

 sary to learn the dangerous ones and then eat 

 with confidence any mushroom that tastes nice, 

 provided it has pink gills or looks like coral or 

 grows on wood or is a tender young puff ball. 



That there is another side to agricultural pros- 

 pects the following letter states clearly: 



" Those who do any farming are rarely very 

 enthusiastic about it. There is something truly 

 diabolical about the uncertainties of nature in 

 connection with growing things, when it is neces- 

 sary to get definite results. In chemistry it is 

 possible, by experiment, to get exact results. We 

 know that certain things, in definite amounts, will 

 always produce a definite something. We can be 

 absolutely certain. But in farming it is not so. 

 Man can study his soils, and plant his seeds, ever 

 .so scientifically, but there is an element that con- 



