MUSHROOM GROWING 75 



The Mushroom grower must be on good terms 

 with the coachman or the man in charge of the stables, 

 who will separate the manure of sick horses, and in 

 this way prove a good friend. Some stables are pro- 

 vided with a covered roof over the manure yard, and, 

 where this is the case, it will be sufficient if the stable 

 manure is fetched away every three days, it must be 

 taken away in the rough, long and short together. 

 Where this provision does not exist it will be better 

 to fetch the manure away every day, or at least every 

 other day, and place it in a dry, open shed in the 

 garden, as on keeping rain away from the manure 

 depends much of the ultimate success of the crops. 

 Whether it is decided to clear away the manure daily, 

 every other day, or twice a week, let it be delivered, 

 if possible, into a dry, open shed, where there is a free 

 circulation of air, or minus an open shed, in some 

 sheltered, dry and airy corner of the garden, where 

 it can be protected and turned over, and the extra 

 moisture liberated until it is dry enough to place in a 

 heap to undergo slight fermentation. The first thing 

 to do with the long and short manure from the stables 

 is to turn it over with a three- or four-tined fork. A 

 fork of this width will admit of all the actual manure 

 falling through by slightly shaking it, as well as much 

 of the short, littery straw. This is all we want from 

 the manure for the purpose of making Mushroom 

 beds, the long straw being laid on one side for other 

 purposes, when it will be most useful, especially when 

 the market garden aspect of Mushroom culture is dealt 



