THOSE WHO SHOULD GEOW MUSHROOMS. 
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again in December or January, the grapery is kept cool 
and ventilated in the fall and early winter, but this need 
not interfere with the mushroom crop. Box up the 
beds or make them in frames inside the grapery ; the 
warm manure will afford the mushrooms heat enough 
until it is time to start the vines, when the increased 
temperature and moisture of the house will be in favor 
of the mushrooms because of the declining heat in the 
manure beds. The mushrooms have no deleterious effect 
whatever upon the vines, nor have the vines upon the 
mushrooms. 
Village People and Suburban Residents. —Those 
who keep horses should, at least, grow mushrooms for 
their own family use and, if need be, for market as well. 
They are so easily raised, and they take up so little space 
that they commend themselves particularly to those who 
have only a village or suburban lot, and, in fact, only a 
barn. And they are not a crop for which we have 
to make a great preparation and need a large quantity 
of manure. No matter how small the bed may be, it 
will bear mushrooms ; and if we desire we can add to 
the bed week after week, as our store of manure in¬ 
creases, and in this way keep up a continuous succession 
of mushrooms. A bed may be made in the cow-house 
or horse-stable, the carriage-house, barn-cellar, wood¬ 
shed, or house-cellar; or if we can not spare much room 
anywhere, make a bed in a big box and move it to where 
it will be least in the way. But the best place is, per¬ 
haps, the cellar. An empty stall in a horse-stable is a 
capital place, and not only affords room for a full bed 
on the floor, but for rack-beds as well. 
Farmers. —No one can grow mushrooms better or 
more economically than the farmer. He has already 
the cellar-room, the fresh manure and the loam at home, 
and all he needs is some spawn with which to plant the 
beds. Nothing is lost. The manure, after having been 
