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 to become large flaps unless such are particularly wanted, as sometimes they are.

As soon as you have finished gathering, cover the bed over again directly with the litter, and if in Winter with mats also.

If the bed is in full production it will probably afford two or three gatherings weekly, afterward not above once a week or fortnight, but generally examine it once a week, as long as it is expected to bear.

A Mushroom-bed seldom furnishes any abundance after two or three months; it has often done its best in six weeks.

When, however, the bed has totally ceased to produce, it will furnish a supply of spawn for other beds, and the dung will