Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-10-22


depth of mushroom compost is eight
inches, on which are placed two
inches of loan after the beds are
spawned. This Will give an available
space OF over twenty inches between
the top of the bed when made up and
the bottom of the next, if the benches
are placed thirty inches apart This
will give sufficient room for making
up beds and gathering the product.
The benches are built in the usual
manner of commercial greenhouse
benches, Of cheap 3x4-inch scantling,
the bottoms being OF inch boards, six
inches wide, with a ten-inch board
nailed in front. AS the weight of a
ten-inch layer of loan manure COM
pose is considerable, 4x4-inch uprights
should be placed at four-foot intervals
for the support of the double tier of
beds.
While many elaborate plans, all
more or less costly, of mushroom
houses, both in frames and mason
work, are offered in the treatises on
the culture Of this desirable esculent,
it is doubtful if any are more practi-
cally adapted for the purpose than the
cheap and simple structure above de-
scribed. If well built, it ought to last
eight or ten years, with but slight re-
! pairs, and need not cost more than 81
per running foot, if built in fifty or
100 foot lengths.
! To grow mushrooms practically, it
is necessary to maintain an average
temperature of about IS degrees. To
maintain this during cold weather.
when mushrooms are most appreci-
ated, some heating system will be
needed; nothing is better than hot
water for this purpose. From four to
six runs of two-inch pipe, according
to the rapidity of circulation, will be
needed. The cost CT heating plant
will very much exceed that of the
mushroom house itself..-W. Van Fleet
in Rural New Yorker.
Incentive for Good Roads:--The
pleasure drivers OF township in
Huntington county have made it
rule for the past Two years to present
gold watch and chain to the road
| supervisors of the townships for keep
ing the roads in good repair. A Mr..
Allison and his successor, Thaddeus
S. Jackson, have each been the re-
cipient of gold watches and chains
This is a new thing for public road
supervisors, but very common thing
for railroad section supervisors to re-
ceive prize every year for the best
sections of road beds in each division
of the Pennsylvania railroad. This
action on the part of the officials make
1t an incentive for good work and good
road beds.-Media (Pa) Ledger.
Some Would Never be Missed This
country has 100000 miles of common
roads. This would oncircle the globe
SO times or go to the moon more than
five times. But If most of them would
go there just once and not come back,
earth would be just about as happy.
A Southern Opinion The subject of
improved public highways is attract
ing large share of public attention.
LII IHc oplhloI vi tlS EoouIhIll IL Il Ctl III
Gazette, of Starkville, Miss, good
roads is one great neeG of the day in
the cotton states. In order to have
better roads, it is necessary to reor-
ganize our present general plans of
road working, and adopt more modern
and more effective methods. 1t seems
that it would be wise plan to utilize
county convicts in connection with this
line Of work. These convicts are usu-
ally burden to the county. They
should be worked They should be
worked for profit. What better profit
can the tax payers desire than the
profit arising from better public
roads? Better roads are indirectly a
profit to every farmer that travels over
them. The better the read, the less
strain upon the team and the wagon
and the harness and the patience of the
driver, The better the road, the
greater the saving of time in going
from one mile 10 another, and the
greater ease with which the burden of
freight is transported,
Anticipated Methods Must Go:-The
old-style corduroy highway was a
well enough thing in the pioneer per-
iod, and the old system of spalling the
highways and throwing dirt from the
side into the center of the pike was
doubtless the proper thing in its Gay,
but the farmer who worked out his
taxes in this way mas learned at last
that it has been costly as well as a
worthless proceeding. and he is now
among the reforme"s. There has been
too much destruction in wagon tires
and springs. The farm. carriage has
been too often wreck ed in the ruts, and
firm stock has suffered This loss has
finally appealed to the pocket, and the
farmers who have been figuring out
profit and loss on the old system are
now the advocates of the new. Per-
manent road improvement is here to
| stay and grow, AMI as the movement
/ spreads through well-directed meth
I DDS the area of good reads will be not