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H. W. BuCkBEE, KOCSFOBD, H.LIKOIS. 



BUCKBEE'S SURE CROP MUSHROOMS 



= MUSHROOMS 



HIGH GRADE, PEDIGREED, VIRGIN SPAWN 



VICTOR PIN'ET, "the Rockefeller of the mushroom industry in St. Louis.' cleared 

 a small place in Unrig 'f Cave recently and set out a Mushroom bed. Then he sat 

 in his easy chair and in three months cut $3 ,000 worth of Mushrooms from the bed 

 he had planted. Monsieur Pinet is an unskilled laborer. He might, if he had good 

 luck, have earned $45 a month during the three months he spent cutting $50 a day 

 worth of fungi from his Mushroom bed. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 



GROWING MUSHROOMS IS NOT DIFFICULT 



Get Reliable Spawn, Start Right and the Results are 

 Certain and Profitable 



No expensive equipment is, or ever will be, necessary for the propagation, in 

 money-making quantities, of Buckbee's Sure Crop Mushrooms. Professional growers 

 have had much to do with spreading the idea that process and equipment are both 

 costly. The plain fact is that anyone who starts right can grow Mushrooms success- 

 fully. He must know how to prepare the beds, where to locate them, and how to 

 care for his crop. But the grower of Radishes must know thai much about the crop 

 he expects to raise. So that, after all, success in growing Mushrooms is hedged 

 about by no more mystery and difficulty than is the growing of Radishes. An aban- 

 doned outhouse, or waste space in one, a shed, a basement or a cellar can be used 

 for growing Mushrooms and will answer the purpose excellently. I know an almost 

 totally blind man, in Chicago, who kept a goodly supply of Mushrooms growing con- 

 stantly in a corner of the basement of the flat building in which he lived. 



I FURNISH EVERY BUYER OF MUSHROOM SPAWN WITH EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS FOR GROWING. 

 IF THEY ARE FOLLOWED THERE IS NOTHING SO CERTAIN AS BIG SUCCESS. 



JUST A FEW PLAIN WORDS 



ABOUT SURE CROP SPAWN 



( See Painting from Nature Inside Back Cover Page ) 



This Spawn is prepared solely for me by a specialist, who has not 

 only devoted a lifetime to the work, but who is a profound student of 

 the industry. His work has resulted in producing the best and most 

 reliable Spawn in the world. Under my contract it is impossible for 

 the grower to secure any Sure Crop Mushroom Spawn from anyone ex- 

 cept Buckbee. 



I can safely assure all Mushroom growers, as well as those who have 

 never grown any, but are on the point of trying it, that they will find 

 Sure Crop Spawn to be all that is claimed for it and more: It produces 

 immense crops and the Mushrooms that are in demand at the very high- 

 est market prices. 



In order to meet the demand for Sure Crop Spawn, and to provide 

 against deterioration of its producing qualities, my arrangement with 

 the producer is for frequent shipments, which, coupled with the care I 

 give it, renders it absolutely certain that my customers will all be fur- 

 nished with Spawn that, if they h.-jidle it properly, will bring them big 

 returns. 



I have made the price as low as Spawn of such an exceedingly high 

 grade can possibly be sold for. 



Postpaid: 1 lb. 33c.; 5 lbs. $1.50. 



Carriage Charges at Buyer's Expense: 1 lb. 23c; 5 lbs. $1.00; 

 25 lbs. $4.00; 100 lbs. 312.50. 



Buyers in quantity are urged to state whether they want shipment 

 made by freight or express. 



WHAT A MUSHROOM GROWER SAYS 



Mushrooms can be grown in tubs, in flats, but the culture requires 

 careful attention and the temperature of the room must be kept at an 

 unhealthful degree. A city man, however, can dig a "dug out" on 

 the north side of his house, roof it over with rough boards and grow 

 enough Mushrooms for home use. If he wants to roof over a part of an 

 old deserted quarry he can grow Mushrooms for the market, contrary 

 to popular belief, the culture of Mushrooms in a cellar is healthful. 

 They absorb all the moisture and keep the cellar dry and the air pure. 



On a bed 50 feet square one can do a profitable marketing business. 



A bed this size, it is estimated, will yield 10 quarts of Mushrooms a day, 

 about $5.00 worth. This will pay the butcher, grocer and candlestick 

 maker. A boy or girl 10 years old can attend to the bed after it is started. 

 The trouble is in the initial work. Afterwards a Mushroom bed piles 

 up money like a money-lenders' interest. 



Any cellar, a cave, an old quarry pit, even a dug-out in a city back 

 yard, makes an ideal Mushroom garden. A space the size of an ordinary 

 bed, carefully cultivated, will yield all the Mushrooms that a good-sized 

 family can use. 



For S5.00 one can buy sufficient Mushroom cakes to plant a large 

 cellar and have an assured income. For the old man, whose days of 

 activity are past, no work offers the chance of an independent, healthful, 

 easy livelihood, equal to Mushroom growing. 



On the north side lives a motorman whose side line is Mushrooms. 

 In the mornings he plants, tends, and picks Mushrooms in a big, damp, 

 warm cellar under a livery stable. At noon he dons his uniform and 

 runs a car zealously for the rest of the day. This winter he has 2,500 

 square feet of Mushroom beds in his cellar. This is the largest space he 

 has ever planted, and he calculates, on the basis of previous winters' 

 profits, that he can make SI. 500 off it before the season is over. Mean- 

 while, he still has his 28 cents an hour, safe and sure, as motorman. — 

 Chicago Tribune. 



3uild Shelves 

 Like These in 

 Your Cellar and 

 Have a Mushroom 

 "Farm" That 



Cannot Fail to 

 Make Money. 

 No Plowing. No 

 Weeds to Pull. 

 Care at the 

 Start Means 

 Success at 

 the End. 



MUSHROOMS GROWING ON SINGLE SHELF 



BUCKBEE'S HIGH GRADE ENG- 

 LISH SPAWN 



comes in pressed bricks weighing a 

 pound or more. Price, postpaid, 

 lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00. Not prepaid, 

 lb. 15c; 8 lbs. $1.00; 25 lbs. $2.25; 

 100 lbs. $7.25. 



BEST FRENCH SPAWN 



Put up in boxes of two pounds each. 

 Price per box, prepaid. 90c. Not 

 prepaid, 70c. The same loose, 

 per lb., prepaid, 40c Not pre- 

 paid, 30c. 



MUSHROOM BEDS IN TIERS 



A POUND OF MUSHROOM SPAWN WILL PLANT 8 SQUARE FEET OF PREPARED BED 



