The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-05-20

found near an old oak stump in a
woods as nice mess of mushrooms
as anybody could desire. Four of
the mushrooms weighed q total of
312 pounds. One of the four weigh
ed better than pound, was inches
high, and about 10 inches in circum-
ference. Besides these four he also
found 13 of the smaller grey type of
sponge mushroom.
Seems as though mushrooms pre-
fer sandy type of soil, perhaps this
is the reason they grow so large and
more plentiful in some sections of
the country. The state of Michigan
produces plenty of spring mush-
rooms and sandy soil is prevalent in
that state. Charley Alderman re-
lated an incident that took place
over on his fathers farm near Nc
Comb. The farm located near the
Ridge Road has a strip of sandy
soil near woods. Charley's father,
Ern Alderman, was plowing one day
and as he neared the woods with
the team he noticed a great multi
tude of mushrooms growing out in
the field. Needless to say he gather
ed all he wanted and there were so
n, apu y,,cro ra,,,a;r,,o 70 ha ,,i.LaJ
and time was so short that he plow-
ed the rest of them under.
You have heard of magician
,, palming an egg, well Clayton Hark-
ness is no magician, but he did an
excellent job of palming pheasant
egg the other day while mushroom
hunting. Wade Bechtol picked up
an egg and playfully heaved it at
Clate. Harnkess just as playfully
reached out his mitt to snag the
egg as it came hurtling toward him.
AS couple of ball players they did
tlright, but the egg couldn't stand
the pressure and smashed. Clate re-
marked afterwards, as he grudgingly
cleaned the mess from his fingers,
"Well anyway, I'm glad it wasn't
rotten"
The field trip did have merits
though for later Clate and his wife
were able to pool their hoard of
mushrooms with the supply that
Charley Lloyd and Dorothy had
salted away, and the four of them
had feed down at the Lloyd man.
sion. Dorothy was overheard to say
there were no less than two skillets
of mushrooms consumed at the ban
quet. Some folks have all the luck
we think.
Omar, Fannie, Clyde, and Vernie
Augsburger, former Bluffton resi-
dents now living on a farm near
Benton Ridge had all the mushrooms
they could eat last week. In a field
of elm stumps near the house the
family gathered better than 200
mushrooms. Vernie stated they
had mushrooms for supper every
evening the whole week. Not only
did they find an ample supply for
their own table, but other folks were
equally as fortunate. At times there
weres as many as three cars parked
beside the field and folks were gath
ering these choice edibles by the
sack full.
Barney Anderson has an eagle
eye when it comes to spotting mush-
rooms for he was able to spot big
mushroom from his car window.
Stopping to investigate he found
three more in the near vicinity.
Caesar Klay took a stroll Sunday
afternoon. In the back yard of the
Burns property across the street he
picked up nice mess of mushrooms.
A short time later along the road
toward the dynamite house hear the
Buckeye quarry he gathered enough
additional mushrooms to fill his ten
pound sugar sack nearly to capacity.
Just goes to show you folks, &c"
sticker is not needed to find mush-
rooms.
Sam Bame took stroll thru Fred
Mullers COW pasture at an oppor-
tune time last Sunday. In the field
near the Central Ohio Light and