CHE REFERENCE LIBRARY - Pole Shift Survival Information

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one part, sand and bone-meal ; keep in a close and humid at.mosphere.
MIW JI:rrs~tr~ is propagated by seeds start,ed in heat, See BUMWX.
Muscari (Grape II>-acinth). I,iliacw.
Seeds nncl ljull) offsets arr usually produced freely and provide
em)* rncans of incrcasfl.
Mushroom ( . 1 tyr~i~~s rn 1)) pvfris). ~1 ~UI’~P~PFIP.
Grown from “ spawn,” which is the mycelium of the fungus
grown in a IAN+ or “ I)ric*lc” of earth and manure. Break up the
~*olnnltG:ll sp;~wn into pieces about as large as a hen’s egg, and
plant it 2 or :3 iric+t3 &cp in drills or holes, using from i to 1
pounil of spwn to ~~11 square yard of bed.
\~ill’iOl15 nlc~tllo~ls an c~nlplo~~~~ct for makin,g the spawn, but the
csstt11 t i;rls of them :111 HW that the hods of the brick shall be compostal
of a porous an(l light material, which can 1~ compressed into
il. c'olnpwct 1113ss ; flv4 mycelium must. be cornrnunicated to this
n1ass , anrl tlirn a n&l heat must be npplicrlF unti! the ~:holc mass
is permeated 1)~ thr niyccliuiii. The mass should be kept. in heat
until the ~holncy of mortar. It is then spread upon the
floor or in larg(b \*iltS, until sufficiently dr>r to be cut into bricks.
\Y!wn they art‘ tcll~~rnl~ly well dried, nr~;ci;lirrnn from a mu.shroom
bed or fr~ni other l)r”- 1L11a -’ 1.-, inserted in the side of ea,ch brick. A bit
of spawn about the sisc of a small walnut is thus inserted, and the
Isle is pluggtltl III). The bricks are now placed in a mild covered
liiktbetl, with tl ljottom heat of iiti” to G?“, and left t.here until the
cloudc~l tl ppcara nt*c’ inclicat.es that the mJ.celium has extended
throughout tll(l IlliLSS.
Soil from a goorl mushroom bed is sometimes used to sow new
beds, in place of commt~rcial spawn.
Old clumps of rnnshroonls may be allowed to become dry, and
tile>- nlii>v tlltbll 11th nliscrl into a 1~~1. Thr spores may then stock the
soil :in(l protfr~~ a I b a now crf)p, altliou~l~ this method is not reliable.
Thc~ full-gro\vn 111usl1room nia~\ 1~ laid on whitcl paper until the
sport’s arc’ clischargccl, ilntl these sport’s may then be mixed into the
earth.
Spawn is now nx~de from reliable cultures and the difficulties of