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- English
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Commercial Mushroom Growing
About this book
Written for commercial mushroom growers, this vintage, specialised text provides a comprehensive, practical guide to mushroom cultivation, though still provides interesting and relevant information for the mushroom cultivation enthusiast. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs, it covers a broad range of topics. Contents include: Mushrooms - Preface - Acknowledgments - introduction - Analysis of Fresh Mushrooms - General Growing Requirements - Where Mushrooms Can Be Grown - Manure and Straw - Composting - Alternative and Synthetic Composts fortifying Poor Quality Manure - Filling and Sweating-Out - Spawn and Spawning Supervising The Spawn Run - Casing and Casing Soil - Cropping, Picking, Marketing, and Production Methods - Avoiding Trouble - Parasitic Fungi and Diseases, Weed Fungi, Mushroom and Spawn Conditions - Flies, insect Pests, and Rodents - Tray Culture or the Two-Zone System - Bibliography. We are republishing this rare work in a high quality, modern and affordable edition, featuring reproductions of the original artwork and a newly written introduction.
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INDEX
Achorutes armatum, 193
Acidity, 49
Additions: to casing soil, 119
to manure during composting, 69
to spent beds, 143
Advantages of tray culture, 215
Aerobic fermentation, 56–61
Agaricus campestris, 13
Agricultural fertilizer, 89
Air circulation, 36, 181, 203
grating, 74
temperature during the sweat-out, 97
tunnel, 75
Air-washing refrigerator, 40
Alkalinity, 49
Ammonia, 45, 59, 73, 74, 108
Amounts required of: casing soil, 122
manure, 47
spawn, 109
Anaerobic fermentation, 56–61
Average yields, 144
Bacterial Blotch, Spot, and Pit, 168
Barley straw, 52, 70
Barns, 32
Basidiomycetes, 16
Basidium, 16
Baskets, 29, 141
Bed construction, 91–4
thermometers, 25, 97, 99
Bed-boards, 38
to disinfect, 153
Bedding straw, 45
Beetles, 198
B.H.C., 185–7
Bleaching powder, 150
Blocks for tray stacking, 205
of houses, 42
Blotch, 169
Blow lamps, 163
Bluestone, 150
Blunt-end mite, 190
Boiler house, 41
Bordeaux mixture, 151
Brewer’s grain, 72, 82, 89
Brick spawn, 21
Bringing on the crop, 133
Broadcasting spawn, 110, 208
Brown plaster mould, 175
‘Bubbles’, 150, 165
Building racks, 67
synthetics, 81
Bulb mite, 190...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Growing Requirements
- II Growing Places
- III Manure and Straw
- IV Composting
- V Experimental Composting
- VI Filling and Sweating-out
- VII Spawn and Spawning
- VIII Casing and Casing Soil
- IX Cropping and Picking
- X Avoiding Trouble
- XI Diseases and Weed Fungi
- XII Insect Pests
- XIII Tray Culture
- Bibliography
- Index