FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
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Mustard, Mushroom Spawn and Okra 
CONDON'S SURE-CROP MUSHROOM SPAWN 
Ten pounds will spawn about 10 feet square 
Mushroom beds may be made in a warm, dry cellar, or in any build- 
ing wliere the frost does not penetrate, and' in the open air during the 
summer and fall months. Having procured the spawn, the next thing: 
to be attended to is to malce preparations for tiie beds. About a fortnight 
or three weeks before the beds are to be made, collect a quantity of fresli 
hor.se manure without the straw; place it in a heap under cover, and as 
it heats Iteep turning it over once or twice a weel%, until the fiery heat has 
become exhausted, which will require from ten to fourteen days' time. 
When the manure is in a condition to be made up, lay out your bed ac- 
cording to your requirements, say three feet wide, ten feet long, and 
from two to three feet deep; beat it well down with the bade of the spade 
as the process of building goes on. When the bed lias been made some 
time, say a week or thereabouts, and the heat sufficiently declined to a 
temperature of 65 or 7.5 degrees, the spawn may be put into it. Break the 
spawn in pieces two inches square, and put them six inches apart all over 
the bed, then cover the bed with two inches of rich soil. When the soil 
looks dry, give a gentle watering with tepid water, using a hose or 
watering-pot. Best English Grown Sure-Crop Spawn. Brick, about 154 
pounds, 35 cents; 3 bricks, about A]4 pounds, $1.00. Post paid. 
. SUEE CEOP M0SHKOOMS 
MUSTARD 
Used as a condiment; the gi-een leaves are used as a 
salad, or cut and boiled like Spinach. Cultivate same as 
Curled Cress or Pepper-Grass. One ounce of seed will sow 
50 feet of drill. 
SOUTHERN GIANT CURLED 
Is highly esteemed in the South, where the seed is 
sown in the fall and plants used early in spring as a salad. 
Seeds brown. Plants are 2 feet high; enormous bunches. 
Packet, 3 cents; ounce, 6 cents; % pound, 18 cents; }4 
pound, 30 cents; pound, 50 cents. 
CHINESE 
A giant curled variety with leaves double the size of 
the ordinary. Packet 4 cents; ounce, 7 cents; yi pound, 
19 cents; % pound, 32 cents; pound, 60 cents. 
WHITE ENGLISH 
Leaves are light green, mild and tender when voung; 
seed light yellow in color. Packet, 3 cents; ounce, 5 
cents; !4 pound, 12 cents; % pound, 19 cents; pound, 35 
cents. 
OKRA OR GUMBO 
Very wholesome. The pods, when young, make a fine 
soup. Plant seed after the ground is warm and dry in 
drills 3 feet apart, thinning the young plants to 1 foot 
apart. Make early and late sowings to secure a supply 
throughout the season. Easy to grow in any good garden 
soil. One ounce of seed will sow 40 feet of drill. 
WHITE VELVET 
Distinct in appearance: the large pods are perfectly 
round, smooth, an attractive velvety white, of superior 
flavor and tenderness. Plant dwarf, of compact, branch- 
ing .growth. Very prolific. Packet, 3 cents; ounce, 5 cents; 
14 pound, 12 cents; H pound. 22 cents; pound, 40 cents. 
LADY FINGER 
Plants are of compact growth, with many close joints. 
At each leaf joint develop handsome, smooth, white pods 
which a\'erage 6 inches long, by 1 inch in diameter. They 
are exceptionally fleshy and tender. Packet, 4 cents; 
ounce, 6 cents; % pound, 18 cents; 14 pound, 30 cents: 
pound, 50 cents. 
No. 6 
Fig. 114 
Includes all 
tools shown 
IRON AGE No. 6 COMBINED 
A Hill Seeder, a Hill Dropper, a Double Wheel Hoe, a 
Single Wheel Hoe 
As a seeder it will sow accurately any small seed in con- 
tinuous rows or in hills at any reasonable distance apart — 
opens its own furrow, sows the seed, covers it, rolls the soil 
over it, and marks the next row in one operation. 
Does a Day's Work in 60 Minutes 
Complete, $12.00. Not prepaid. 
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