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BUCKBEE'S SL'RE CROP MUSHROOMS 



BUCKBEE'S 



Sure Crop fliashrooms 



GROWING MUSHROOMS IS NOT DIFFICULT 



I 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 

 monev-rnakiiig quantities, of Buclvbee's Sure Crop Musliroom.s. Professional growers 

 have had much to do with spreading the idea tliat process and equipment are botli 

 costly. The plain fact is that anyone who starts right can grow Muslirooms 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 that much about the crop 

 he e.xpects 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 abandoned 

 outhou.se, 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 constantly in a 

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



HIGH GRADE, PEDIGREED, VIRGIN SPAWN 



VICTOR PINET, 'he Rockefeller of the Mushroom industry in St. Louis," 

 cleared a small place in Uhrig's 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 S45 a month during the three months he spent cutting S50 a day 

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



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 

 unhealtnful 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 popu- 

 lar belief, the culture of .Mushroom in a cellar is healthful. They absorb all the moisture and keep the cellar dry and the air pure. 



On a bed fifty 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 candle- 

 stick 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-lender's interest 



.\ny 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. 



ABOUT SURE CROP SPAWN 



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 pro- 

 curing 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 except 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, tliat 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 highest 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 furnished with Spawn that, if they handle it properly, will bring them big returns. 



I have made the price as low as Spawn of such an exceedingly high grade can po.ssibly 

 be sold for. 



Postpaid: 1 lb. 33c.; 5 lbs. SI. SO. 



Carriage Charges at Buyer's Expense: 1 lb. 23c.; S lbs. $1.00; 25 lbs. $4.00; 100 lbs. 

 S12.50. 



Buyers in quantity are urged to state whether they want shipment made by freight or 

 express. 



BUCKBEE'S HIGH GRADE 

 ENGLISH 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. S2.26. 

 100 lbs. $7.25. 



MUSffnoO US OROWIN& ON SryOLE SHELF 



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 TiEDS /.V TIERS 



Build Shelves like these in your cellar and have a Mushroom "Farm" that cannot fail to make money. 



Care at the start means success at the end. 



No Plowing. No Weeds lo pull. 



I FUi\NISH EVrRY BUYER OF MUSHROOM SPAWN WITH EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS FOR GROWING. 

 I? THSY A"{E FOLLOWED THERE IS NOTHING SO CERTAIN AS BIG SUCCESS. 



OTHER VARIETIES OF PUMPKINS, BOTH FIELD AND PIE, ON NEXT PAGE. 



