Commercial Mushroom Growing

M. H. Pinkerton

• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• ISBN:
  9781447489214
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Horticulture
• Index: Biological Sciences

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.

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