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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1912 
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erly arrange the bed, plant the spawn and 
gather the growing mushrooms. 
He first put in a deep layer of fresh 
barn manure and then a layer about half 
as deep of well-rotted manure on top. 
He planted the spawn, which comes by 
the pound, in bricks or flakes, in little 
broken bits all through this manure bed 
when its temperature was reduced to about 
ninety degrees Fahrenheit. He then cov¬ 
ered the surface with straw to keep the sur¬ 
face moist. 
After about ten days he removed the 
straw and covered the bed with two inches, 
of good loam and again covered the bed 
with the straw mulch. 
He is now, at this writing, waiting and? 
watching for the young plants to appear,, 
when he will remove the straw. 
Like sweet peas, mushrooms must be 
gathered daily to thrive well, and be at 
their best, so he confidently anticipates not 
only a sufficiency for themselves, but alsO' 
enough for his neighbors, for he thinks he 
can maintain the right conditions for suc¬ 
cessful culture. M. A. N. 
New Vegetable Varieties that Have 
Made Good 
(Continued from page 15) 
field corn. Earliest Catawba is an early 
strain of the old popular Black Mexican, 
hut all my customers seemed to prefer 
Golden Bantam. Howling Mob is a good! 
new early white, but the old sorts still hold 
their own. Burbank’s Rainbow corn, with 
variegated leaves, is interesting as a curi¬ 
osity and for ornamental purposes. 
For the earliest corn, plant Golden Ban¬ 
tam or a similar sort a week or so earlier 
than you have been putting in the old. 
sorts. If the soil is fairly dry, and youi 
want to take a chance on frost, soak for 
twelve hours before planting, as this will 
insure immediate germination, and seeds- 
usually rot before sprouting, if at all. For 
still earlier results, the seed must be started 
under glass on sods turned upside down—• 
about four weeks before it will be safe to* 
set it out. Give it a warm place. Set two or 
three inches under the soil when transfer¬ 
ring the sod to the open. Late plantings- 
out-of-doors, from the last of June on, 
should be deep; five inches is not too much' 
to enable the corn better to withstand sum¬ 
mer droughts. Frequent shallow cultiva¬ 
tion is the greatest secret of success. 
Cabbage. — Some of the newer varieties 
of corn are especially valuable to the home 
gardener because they can be planted* 
closer than the old sorts, and the quality 
also has been improved. Glory of En- 
shuizen, a round-headed sort ready practi¬ 
cally as early as Wakefield, has become a. 
general favorite. Copenhagen Market, 
but recently introduced, should become the- 
favorite family garden earliest. Mainstay 
Early, new this year, is emphasized for its- 
ability to resist “bolting” or splitting after 
ripening, a quality which, if true, will make* 
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