A Cheap Mushroom Bed.
■.'...■■ '■ ' ' ~ ♦ A French paper recently published a method of preparing a mushroom bed which will yield a crop all the year round, which for simplicity and cheapness should recommend itself to lovers of that edible fungus. In a box about Bft Equare and 20in in depth, is placed a mixture of three parts dry cow manure and one part garden soil, so as to form a stratum of 4in. A 2in layer of the same mixture, after being mingled with good mushroom spawn broken up, is now added to the contents of the box, which is afterwards filled up with an Bin layer of earth. The whole is slightly compressed, and is watered frequently with a fine rose. In a few weeks the first mushrooms will appear and will continue to do so for at least two years, provided the bed is kept damp, and the box is kept in a place where the temperature is equable and the light not bright*
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Manawatu Herald, 22 November 1894, Page 3
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165A Cheap Mushroom Bed. Manawatu Herald, 22 November 1894, Page 3
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