SELECT VEGETABLE, FIELD AND FLOWER SEEDS 
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MUSHROOM SPAWN 
Ten pounds will spawn about 10 feet square 
Mushroom beds may be made in a warm, dry cellar, or in 
any building where the frost does not penetrate, and in the open 
air during the summer and fall months. Having procured the 
spawn, the next thing to be attended to is to make preparations 
for the beds. About a fortnight or three weeks before the beds 
are to be made, collect a quantity of fresh horse manure with¬ 
out the straw * place it in a heap under cover, and as it heats 
keep turning it over once or twice a week, until the fiery heat 
has become exhausted, which will require from ten to fourteen 
days’ time. When the manure is in a condition to be made up, 
lay out your bed according to your requirements, say 3 feet 
wide, 10 feet long, and from 2 to , f< ct <h<p ; beat it well down 
with the back of the spade as the pi <m < . <>t building 
When the bed has been made some time, say a there 
abouts, and the heat sufficiently declined to a temperature of 
65 to 75 degrees, the spawn may be put into it. Break the 
spawn in pieces 2 inches square, and put them 6 inches apart, 
all over the bed, then cover the bed with 2 inches of rich soil, 
the stronger the better, but of a loamy quality, beating it down 
firmly with a spade. The soil used for this purpose should be 
in a pliable condition, and not too wet or over-dry. Cover the 
bed with a foot of dried straw or hay; examine once a week to 
see if the manure is not heated while in this condition ; if so, it 
will destroy the spawn, and necessitate spawning a second time. 
If everything goes on well, you may expect Mushrooms in 
about five or six weeks. When the soil looks dry, give a gen¬ 
tle watering with tepid water, using a rose on the watering-pot. 
If the beds are made out-of-doors, protect them from rain by 
covering them with shutters or sashes. Good crops of Mush¬ 
rooms can be obtained by spawning the hotbeds in spring. 
They can also be raised in boxes, or anything capable of keep¬ 
ing the materials together, and placed in a cellar. 
Pure Culture Spawn. Formerly all Mushroom Spawn 
was obtained from wild Mushrooms growing in England. By 
scientific research Spawn makers now produce Spawn from 
select Mushrooms from their own cultivated beds. Moreover, 
the bricks of Spawn are now inoculated directly from the test 
tube cultures, thus producing a much stronger and quicker 
growth, both in the brick and in the planted beds ; neither was 
formerly possible when Spawn cultures were so very scarce. 
Pure Culture Spawn has met with immense success, in many 
places the yields being nearly twice what they formerly were. 
In bricks weighing about 1 lb. each, 20 cts., 100 lbs. $18. 
Nitrate Sacks on the Roots of Cow Peas— 
1,000 Pounds of Nitrates per Acre by the 
Use of Farmogerm 
Nitrate Fertilizerfromthe Air 
ALFALFA — PEAS — CLOVERS 
Will deposit in your soil 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of nitrates per acre, if the seed has 
been inoculated with Farmogerm just before planting,—and the seed bed properly 
prepared. This wonderful saving of high-priced fertilizer is now being practised on a 
large scale throughout this country. These results can be obtained only by the use 
of inoculation upon any legume crops. It increases the yield and enriches the soil. 
Farmogerm is put up in bottles ready to use,—you can inoculate the seed for ten 
acres in ten minutes. We recommend it to our customers for use on all legume crops. 
The soil transfer method of inoculation is both costly and dangerous. Weed seed, 
plant- and soil-diseases are transferred in this manner, and it should be carefully 
avoided. Use only the Farmogerm inoculations. 
FARHOCERn 
HIGH-BREC? NITROGEN GATHERING BACTERIA 
SEED AND SOIL INOCULATIONS 
SOLD AND ENDORSED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD 
AS THE STANDARD INOCULATIONS 
All kinds of peas are greatly increased in yield and in 
quality when inoculated with Farmogerm. To grow 
the greatest pea crop you have ever raised you should 
use Farmogerm inoculations on all seeds you plant. 
PEAS AND 
BEANS 
Beans are legumes and are greatly bene- 
fitted by Farmogerm inoculations. The 
crop is increased in quality and quantity, 
and the land greatly enriched. 
ENDORSED BY LEADING PEA AND BEAN GROWERS AND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS 
5-acre size bottle, $9; 1-acre size bottle, $2; garden size, 50 cts. 
