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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. 15c; 34 lb. 40c. 
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. 15c; 34 lb. 40c. 
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 
“MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK ” 
Now, if you have a heavy job to do, call all hands 
and despatch it; but stop! too many cooks always spoil 
the broth. There are some who cannot bear to work 
alone. If they have a yard of cabbages to hoe, they 
must call in a neighbour to change work. Now this is 
very pleasant, but it tends to lounging and idleness, 
and neglect of business; for we cannot always have our 
neighbours at work with us. We shall reluct at work 
alone, and if we can get no one to come to us, we shall 
be away, leaving our corn, potatoes, peas and beans to 
take care of themselves. — “Bugs, bugs, bugs! 0, the 
bugs will eat up all the cucumbers !” No, they will 
not, cousin Betty, if we attend to them. We must be 
up in the morning, aye in the morning, I say; and 
not lie in bed until nigh twelve, like Capt. Dashup's 
girls, who are thrumming and drumming and hum¬ 
ming all night long with their penny-forts and Jews- 
harps.—I say we must be up before the sun kisses the 
pine tops, and see to these bugs and pinch their necks 
for them. — from the Old Farmer's Almanack. 
layer of application until bed is a foot thick. 
Thrust a thermometer into the center, noting 
the temperature, 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. Mushrooms will appear 
from 4 to 6 weeks time. Five 1 lb. bricks of 
spawn for a bed 12x4 feet. 
English Culture Spawn. The very best 
mill rack. This quality can be relied on. 1 lb. 
bricks 50c; 10 bricks $4.00. 
Mushrooms 
ONIONS 
Culture.—The onion is supposed to have 
originated somewhere in Central Asia in pre¬ 
historic times. It was well known to the 
Egyptians as a vegetable and was used ex¬ 
tensively 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 re¬ 
sults. 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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