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JOHNSON & STOKES 
A Bed of Mushrooms from English Milltrack Spawn. 
be available and a suitable apartment at hand, the growing 
of mushrooms may be taken up for winter work. 
There are many ways of growing mushrooms, and they 
can be produced in any situation where a steady tempera- 
ture of 6o° can be maintained. A simple method is to pre- 
pare a bed consisting of horse manure and loam, three parts 
by measure of the former and one of the latter, the manure 
having been somewhat fermented and sweetened by allowing 
it to heat and turning it several times. A compact bed a 
foot deep is made. This bed will first heat and then cool. 
As it cools, when at 8o° or 85 an inch below the surface, 
bits of brick spawn the size of a hen's egg are inserted about 
9 inches apart. 
The bed must not be immediately covered, or the tempera- 
