
12 FRANK HOWARD, INC., PITTSFIELD, MASS. 

MUSHROOM SPAWN io 

A Mushroom Cellar Bed 
Mushrooms are more easily cultivated than many people imagine and may be grown in any room or cellar 
where the temperature can be maintained at from 50 to 65 degrees. For the beds use a mixture of three parts 
horse droppings and one part good fresh loam. Before being placed in the bed, let the manure be put in some 
dry place to sweeten, mixing it thoroughly and turning it three or four times, when the loam may be added. 
Upon a dry firm bottom, make the bed by spreading a thin layer of the prepared mixture, pounding it firm, 
and continue this, till the bed is twelve inches thick. Leave it thus for about a week, or until the temperature 
has subsided to 85 degrees. Then make holes about ten inches apart, and put in each a piece of spawn about the 
size of an egg. Press the spawn firmly into the compost about two inches, leaving the top uncovered to allow 
the excess of heat and moisture to pass off without injury to the germs. After ten days, fill the holes and cover 
the whole bed with two inches of fresh loam, and over this place a few inches of straw. If the temperature 
is right, mushrooms will appear in six or eight weeks from the time of spawning. The bed will continue bearing 
from four to six weeks. If the surface of the bed becomes dry at any time, it should be moistened freely with 
water at a temperature of 90 to 100 degrees. 
Our stock of spawn is replaced a number of times during the season and is giving excellent results 
AMERICAN, Pure Culture—In bricks, per brick 45c. 20 bricks $6.50. 
PURE CULTURE BOTTLE SPAWN—$1.25 per carton. (Not carried in stock) 
OKRA OR GUMBO 
CULTURE.—Sow late in Spring when ground is warm, in drills 3 ft. apart, thin from 
9 to 12 in. They should be well manured. 
Pkt. Oz. 4Lb. 
DWARF WHITE VELVET,—Pods round, smooth and white, very 
prolific, 10. .:15-...40 
DWARF GREEN,—Very early, On ehS 4 AO 
ONIONS 
Sow inrich light soil in drills 
1 ft. apart (or wider if to be 
cultivated with horse). 
Hoe or rake frequently to 
keep down weeds. Use our 
Garden Fertilizer. 
YELLOW GLOBE DAN- 
VERS — Howard’s Finest 
Strain—This seed is grown 
from the very earliest, and 
best selected onions, and 
is very much superior to 
the average seed offered. — Yellow Globe Danvers is the standard variety, good yielder, 
excellent keeper, 15c pkt., 30c 14 oz., 55¢ 14 0z., 95c oz., $2.85 4 lb. 

Howard’s Yellow Globe Danvers Onion 
