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CARTERS MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Cultural Hints. — To Stow Mushrooms- 
successfully, the following requirements are 
essential: Procure fresh stable manure (straw 
litter manure, not peat litter), shakeout well, 
leaving as little straw as possible ; the better 
the manure the better the bed will bear. After 
shaking out, stack your short manure closely, 
as for the preparation of a hotbed, and there 
let it remain for a week to have a good heating, 
then turn it over and place what has been 
outside the heap into the centre. Repeat this 
turning at intervals of three days (four turn- 
ings should be sufficient), and if dry. use 
water enough to moisten it gradually at each 
turning ; this will get the material into right 
condition for the beds, as moisture is one of 
the most important points to study and the 
right texture of the material depends almost 
entirely upon this proper state of moisture. 
If you get your material right in this respect, 
whatever shape you make your beds, whether 
flat beds or ridges, you will not be likely to 
experience any trouble afterwards. The ideal 
temperature is 55° to 50°, but Mushrooms do 
come at a much lower temperature ; a higher 
temperature than (10° should be avoided if 
possible. 
After the beds are ready the bricks are each 
broken into about ten pieces of about equal 
size. These pieces should be inserted about 
2 in. below the surface and about 10 in. apart ; 
the bed should then be gently stamped or 
, compressed. In about 15 days the spawn 
Carters Special “ Mill track Brand. should have run entirely through the bed. 
'I'lie whole surface should be then covered 
with about 2 in. of loam and over this place a few inches of straw. Under these conditions the mushrooms should appear in about six weeks and 
continue to come for a month. One brick of spawn will lay in 9 sq. ft. of bed. 
690 
CARTERS 
1 brick. 
.20 
MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
4 bricks. 12 bricks. 100 bricks. 
.75 1.50 12.50 
