A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



with three or four inches of cut hay, straw, 

 or leaves. 



From five to six weeks later, you should be 

 able to gather a good supply. This bed will 

 continue to yield during three or four weeks. 

 Then remove the straw, add another two 

 inches of fresh earth, sprinkling and recover- 

 ing, when another crop will start. Later, when 

 the "home" is paying sufficient dividends to 

 build a proper mushroom house, I shall explain 

 more advanced methods of running what is a 

 really profitable branch of fancy farming. 



HINT FOR SALADS 



Place three boxes a foot and a half wide, 

 two feet long, and four inches deep, on an old 

 table in a south or southwest window. Sow 

 half of each box with mustard seed (sometimes 

 called pepper grass) and the other half with 

 cress seed. Allow four days between the 

 sowing of each box, and after ten days you 

 have a succession of material for adding to 

 salads or sandwiches all through the winter. 



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