onlont, have you alt of them growing? 
Free Advice on Your Fruit Problems 
Dnrina the “Oft Season" we will be pleased to 
answer qaestlons for prospective cnstomers by mall 
or personally, without charire- Make your ques¬ 
tions brief and to the point. Sometimes the Inquir¬ 
er will take several pages to say what might be 
•aid on half a page. Bull your letters down. Did 
you ever write a ten word telegram? Tou will be 
•nrptised what you can say In ten words. Write 
plainly so others can read It readily and you 
can read it yourself after it “gets cold." It is not 
always the hard working farmer that writes a 
poor letter. Many of these take pains and their 
letters are easily read. It Is the careless business 
and professional man who takes no pains and thinks 
everybody ought to know what he wants. There 
are lots of absent-minded people who forget to 
•igm their names or put down some part of the ad¬ 
dress which Is vital to us, if we would communi¬ 
cate with them. If you do not hear from us after a 
reasonable time, you can be pretty sure that you 
have left off your name or part of your address 
when writing to us, and you better write again. 
Long Distance Shipments 
We make a specialty of shipping plants and other 
goods long distances by mall, express and freight. 
Thirty years of experience has taught us some 
things about packing. Our customers write us that 
our packing Is the best in the world. We rarely 
ever have a complaint, due exclusively to the long 
distance that plants have to travel. We menttoi 
this because we often receive letters asking us 11 
we can safely send plants to California, Washing¬ 
ton, British Columbia and other distant placea 
During the past year we have shipped plants safely 
to England, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, and 
other foreign countries. Because we solicit dis¬ 
tant orders. It does not signify that we neglect 
crders nearer home. 
Mushroom Spawn 
(AOAKICUS CAMPESTKIS) 
American Rpore Culture Spawn, produced from 
original spore cultures under the new French 
process which permits the Indefinite reproduction 
of selected varieties without dilution of the strain. 
Positively the m«)8t vigorous and prolific spawn on 
the market. Each brick weighs from to 1 1-3 lbs. 
and will spawn from 8 to 10 square feet of beds. 
We keep on hand the white variety which is gen¬ 
erally preferred In the markets, but can supply the 
cream or brown varieties, If desired. Per brick, 
10 cts., 6 bricks. $1.25; by express or freight, 10 
bricks, $2; 25 bricks. 14; 100 bricks, $17. 
O NE can of Alphano Inoculant contains all th« 
nltro-gatherlng and fixing bacteria neces¬ 
sary to abundantly Inoculate your seed and 
eoll for all the twenty-eight legumes, such as al¬ 
falfa, clover, peas, beans and the like. Does away 
entirely with the necessity of buying a separat* 
culture for each legume. 
Alphano Inoculant Is also teeming with nitro¬ 
gen-gathering and Boll-dlgestlng bacteria which 
work Independently of the legumes and thus ben¬ 
efit all crops. 
One dollar’s worth of Alphano Inoculant may add 
forty dollars’ worth or more of available nitrogen to 
each acre of soli treated. It comes to yon In finely 
granulated form, easy and simple and convenient to 
use. This Is Ideal for the bacteria, providing suf¬ 
ficient moisture and air, something Impossible In a 
Jelly medium. They are guaranteed to keep allv* 
and active for two years. 
Proper bacteria are Just as essential for success 
with legumes as lime, for tillage. You remove this 
source of possible failure with Alphano Inoculant 
PRICES 
One Acre Size 
Net Weight of Can 
i pounds 
Price, $1.00 
Ten Acre Slss 
Net Weight 
20 pounds 
Prtce, $8.00 
Alphano Inoculant comes In two and twenty 
pound cans for one and ten acres Inoculating. 
Coltural Directions 
"Mushrooms may be grown in a shed, cellar, oave. 
under the benches In greenhouses, in fact In any 
place where conditions of temperature and molsturs 
are favorable or can be controlled. The proper 
temperature ranges from 58 degrees to 60 degrees 
P., with extremes from 60 degrees to 68 degrees F. 
The atmosphere should be moist enough to keep ths 
beds from drylng-up, and a gradual renewal of the 
air, without draughts, should be provided for. 
Horse manure, properly composted by three or 
more successive turnings, is the best material for 
the beds. The object of the turnings Is to ex¬ 
pose the manure to the air and by oxidation trans¬ 
form It Into cellulose, the form in which it is as¬ 
similated as food by the mushroom. The manure 
Is piled In heaps about 8 feet deep and allowed 
to heat, care being taken to avoid overheating or 
burning. It Is turned or forked over 8 or 4 times, 
at a week’s Interval, in such a manner as to bring 
the inside of the heap to the outside and thus 
siecure a uniform oxidation. The material Is 
sprinkled at each turning but not drenched. When 
small quantities of manure are used, and a proper 
beating or composting of the material cannot there¬ 
fore be obtained, It may be found advisable to ad¬ 
mix some loam with it, about one-fourth or one- 
fifth, and make up the beds after one or two 
turnings. The beds are made to a depth of 10 or 
12 Inches. When the temperature of the beds has 
dropped to about 75 degrees F. the spawn U 
Inserted to a depth of from 1 to 2 Inches, and 
tamped. When the spawn Is “running," usually 
about 2 weeks after planting, the bed Is cased. Cas¬ 
ing consists In applying a layer of screened loam 
(a calcerous loam is to be preferred) from 1 to IH 
Inches deep to the surface of the bed. The casing 
should be slightly moist. Mushrooms should appear 
from 6 to 10 weeks after spawning, and will con¬ 
tinue to produce for a period ranging from two to 
three months." 
Egyptian Winter Onions 
As a boy, I remember eating ’Winter" onions at 
a neighbor's house in the early spring and how 
good they tasted. I have always wanted a patch 
of these onions in my garden, but have been un¬ 
able to find them until now. These onions live over 
the winter and come up very early In spring and 
can then be used for bunch onions to sell In mar¬ 
ket, or In your own family. The sets are planted 
In early spring same as any kind of onions. Price 
pint, 20c; quart, 30c: peck. $2; bu., $7. 
Bronson, Mich., Dec. 27th. 1920. 
The plants you sent last spring to E. Chapman 
and myself were In fine condition and every on* 
grew flna. Edith Hoffman. 
