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tioii of the spawn and how well it has run in the manure. 

 Before being earthed over the outside surface of the beds 

 should be covered with white lilamenls radiating in all 

 directions which give to the beds a bluish a|)])earance. 

 AVlien the bed is in the i)roper state for being covered 

 with earth the mold is hdd on equally and firmly over 

 tlie surface about three-fourths of an inch deep. It is 

 then thoroughly watered through a line-rosed watering i>ot 

 and allowed to settle until the next day, when it is 

 beaten solid by the back of a wooden shovel. '.I'hc bed 

 now needs no furtlier eare until the young muslnoums 

 appear, except a light occasional watering should it 

 get dry. 



In spacious, higli-roofcd caves the mean temperature 

 is about 5:i° F., wJiile in narrow, low-roofed ones it is 



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about C8°. Of course this makes a wide difference in 

 the time of bearing and duratiim of the beds made in 

 the different caves; those in the warm caves come into 

 bearing sooner and sto]) bearing ({uicker than do those 

 in the liigh-roofed caves. On an average the first mush- 



