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again iu December or January, the grapery is kept cool 

 and ventilated in the fall and early winter, but this need 

 not interfere with the mushroom crop. Box up the 

 beds or make them in frames inside the grapery ; the 

 warm manure will afford the mushrooms heat enough 

 until it is time to start the vines, when the increased 

 temperature and moisture of the house will be in favor 

 of the mushrooms because of the declining heat in the 

 manure beds. The mushrooms have no deleterious effect 

 whatever upon the vines, nor have the vines upon the 

 mushrooms. 



Village People and Suburban Residents. — Those 

 who keep horses should, at least, grow mushrooms for 

 their own family use and, if need be, for market as well. 

 They are so easily raised, and they take up so little space 

 that they commend themselves particularly to those who 

 have only a village or suburban lot, and, in fact, only a 

 bam. And they are not a crop for which we have 

 to make a great preparation and need a large quantity 

 of manure. No matter how small the bed may be, it 

 will bear mushrooms ; and if we desire we can add to 

 the bed week after week, as our store of manure in- 

 creases, and in this way keep up a continuous succession 

 of mushrooms. A bed may be made in the cow-house 

 or horse-stable, the carriage-house, barn-cellar, wood- 

 shed, or house-cellar ; or if we can not spare much room 

 anywhere, make a bed in a big box and move it to where 

 it will be least in the way. But the best place is, per- 

 haps, the cellar. An empty stall in a horse-stable is a 

 capital place, and not only affords room for a full bed 

 on the floor, but for rack-beds as well. 



Farmers. — No one can grow mushrooms better or 

 more economically than the farmer. He has already 

 the cellar-room, tha fresh manure and the loam at home, 

 and all he needs is some spawn with which to plant the 

 beds. Nothing is lost. The manure, after having been 



