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difcovering a flrong fniell of the Mnfhroom* 
A due quantity ihould always be provided 
previous to making rhe bedj in order that 
you may more readily judge of what fize to 
determine upon ; for it is fometimes difficult 
to be had in any confiderable abundance; 
fo that according as it is occafionally met 
with, it Ihould be carefully colleded, 
taking the lumps of fpawn and earth 
entire, of which, for a bed twenty feet long, 
three or four bufliels will be requifite> and 
fo in proportion. 
Spawn is obtained the moft readily and in 
abundance in parcels of decayed dung and 
dungy compofts ; but commonly more 
plenteoufly and good in rotten horfe liable 
dung, compofed of the Ihort dung and moift 
litter together, ^s cleared from the flables, 
cither colleded in dting-heaps, or formed 
into hot-beds, compolls, &c. when it has 
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