MUSTARD 
Culture. ■— Green mustard imparts a 
delightfully pungent flavor to the 
various forms of prepared salads. 
For early crops sow thickly on a 
gentle hot bed in February and 
March, and for general crop, at 
intervals during Spring, on very fine 
soil, in rows 5 inches apart. It 
should be cut when about 1 inch 
high. An ounce of seed to 50 feet 
of drill. 
GIANT SOUTHERN CURLED. 
The best known and most popular 
sort for greens. Leaves long and 
wide, light green, tinged with yellow, 
heavily crumpled and curled at the 
edges. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; 34 lb. 30c. 
White London. A rapid growing 
upright plant which quickly goes to 
seed. Leaves small, dark green, 
smooth, deeply cut. Light yellow 
seeds largely used for ground mus¬ 
tard. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; 34 lb. 30c. 
MUSHROOM SPAWN 
Culture. — Mushrooms are easy to 
grow in any dark place where a 
uniform temperature of 50 to 65 
degrees may be had. A dark shed 
or cellar will do. Plant from Sep¬ 
tember till January in a bed com¬ 
posed of 1 part soil to 3 parts fresh 
horse manure. This compost should 
be thoroughly mixed and allowed to 
ferment well a number of days. Then 
build your bed upon a hard dry 
foundation, packing it layer upon 
Mushrooms 
A Field of Onions in Seed 
layer of application until bed is a 
foot thick. Thrust a thermometer 
into the center, noting the tempera¬ 
ture, until it registers around 80 
degrees. Then make holes in bed 
10 inches apart and drop in egg sized 
pieces of spawn covering about 2 
inches deep. Soil then should be 
pressed down thoroughly. 10 days 
later cover with moist loam 2 inches 
deep and cover with straw. Mush¬ 
rooms will appear from 4 to 6 weeks 
time. Five 1 lb. bricks of spawn for 
a bed 12 x 4 feet. 
English Culture Spawn. The very 
best mill track. This quality can be 
relied on. 1 lb. bricks 40c; 10 bricks 
$3.00. 
ONIONS 
Culture. — The onion is supposed to 
have originated somewhere in Cen¬ 
tral Asia in prehistoric times. It 
was well known to the Egyptians as 
a vegetable and was used extensively 
also by the Israelites both in Egypt 
and Palestine. Being about 95% 
water and 5% solids it naturally 
depends upon ample moisture for 
proper growth. A light loamy moist 
soil is therefore desirable for best 
results. Seed should be sown as 
early in spring as the ground will 
permit, in drills 14 inches apart and 
34 inch deep. Constant weeding 
from the start must be carried on 
for a full crop. An ounce to 100 feet 
of drill. Five pounds to the acre. 
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