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in the neigbouthood of the place where it began ; thoughDr. Slare thinks it rather owing to swarms of volatile in-sects.

The antidote For the sound, and medicine for the sick,was equal parts of soot, gunpowder, brimstone, and salt,with as much water as would wash it down: a spoonfulwas the dose.

The common signs of this disease area hanging downof the head, gum at the eyes, as big as your finger,growing weakly, staggering, the head swelling very much,the breath short, the heart beating, with rattling in thethroat; and if you put your hand into the creature’smouth, and find his breath very hot, and his tongueshining, the distemper is very strong.

As soon as you find any of your cattle infected, takea prettv large quantity of blood from them immediately,and give them a drench. Madder root is highly com-mended for this distemper.

MUSHROOM, a genus of imperfect plants, composedof a pedicle crowned with a broad head, convex andsmooth at the top; and hollow, foliated, lamellated, orpistulous underneath.

It is of the utmost importance to distinguish the righteatable sort, from several noxious kinds that have been

are August and September; when plenty of mushroomsspring up naturally in many of those places. To propa-gate them front thence, the ground should be openedabout their roots, and such earth as is there found full ofsmall white knobs, which are the offsets, or young mush-rooms should be attentively gathered up, with as muchcare as can be not to break the lumps, or the earth aboutthem. This feed, or rather this spawn (for if mushroomshave feeds, they are imperceptible to the eye) should bekept very dry till it is used : for the drier it is, the better it'will take so the bed, as has been remarkably experiencedby Mr. Miller, who declares, that he never saw theseplants produced so soon, or in so great quantity, as froma parcel of their spawn which had lain near the oven of astove for upwards of four months, and was become sodry, that he despaired of its success.

The beds for mushrooms should be made of dung plen-tifully intermixed with litter, but not thrown in a heap toferment. The best dung for this purpose is that which haslain spread abroad for a month, or longer. Their breadthshould be about two feet and a half at bottom, theirlength proportioned to the desired quantity of mushrooms,and they should be made on dry ground, by spreading uponit, first a layer of dung about a foot thick, and upon this

productive of even fatal accidents: the true sort appears about four inches deep of strong earth; then a couch of

at first with a roundish head, not unlike a button. Theoutside of this head is then very white, as is likewise thestalk on which it grows; but its under part, when it istaken off that stalk, from which it separates pretty easily,is of a lived flesh colour. Its flesh is also very white with-in. If this fort remains undisturbed, its head will spreadto a considerable size, and open at the botom, so as toform an almost flat surface, the under part of which willthen be changed to a dark colour.

Most of the writers upon gardening have spoken so con-fusedly, not to say, of most of them, so unintelligibly,of the means of propagating this plant, that excepting theauthors of the Maison Rufiique , and Mr. P. Miller, one issometimes puzzled to guess at their meaning. The ac-count which this last has given in his Dictionary, is themost practical, being the method of the gardeners nearLondon, who raise annually great quantities of mushrooms (for sale. The substance of it is to the following effect.

The spawn of mushrooms, from which only they arepropagated, looks like a white mould,ness shooting out inJong strings. It is frequently found among the dung ofold hot-beds, or in old dunghills, especially when muchlitter has been mixed with these last, or the wet has notpenetrated so as to rot it ; or it may be procured by mixingsome long stable dung, which has not been thrown up ina heap to ferment, with strong earth, and then layingthis mixture under cover, where it cannot be wet, andwhere the air may be excluded from it as much as possible ;for, the more effectually it is kept from air, the soonerthe spawn will be produced. It will generally appear inabout two months, if the heap has not been laid so closetogether as to heat (for that will destroy the spawn) andespecially if it has been well covered with old thatch, orlitter which has lain so long abroad as to have lost thepower of fermenting. These are expedients by whichthe spawn of mushrooms may be procured at almost anytime, by those who have not already had mushroom-bedsin their gardens, and therefore cannot collect it from theirremains: for there are but two months of the year inwhich it can be gathered from downs or pastures. These

dung about ten inches thick, and upon that another layer-of earth, contracting the surface of the bed all the wayup, till it terminates like the ridge of a house. This niaybe done with three layers of dung, and as many of earth-When it is finished, it should be covered with litter, orold thatch, as well to prevent its drying, as to keep outwet, and after it has remained eight or ten days in this si-tuation, it will be of a proper temperature to receivethe spawn, for which its warmth should be but mode-rate. The thatch, or litter, should then be taken off",the sides of the bed should be smoothed, and a covering oflight rich earth, by no means wet, should belaid all overit, about an inch thick. Upon this the spawn should beplaced, by laying its lumps about two or three inchesasunder, in such manner as to prevent their slipping down,and then the whole should be covered gently with abouthalf an inch thick of the fame light earth as was utcd be-fore. The coveting of litter should then be replaced overthe bed, so thick as to secure it from wet, and to preventits drying. If these beds are made in the spring or autumn,when the weather is temperate, the mushrooms will fre-quently come up in a month’s time : but those which a remade in summer, when the season is hot, or in winter,when it is cold, will not produce them near so soon. Some-times too it happens that neither of these beds, but mt'‘‘particularly those made in the summer or winte;, yield a* 1 /mushrooms before the end of five or six months; and th a£they then produce uncommon quantities, and continue 111perfection for a long time.

The great art in managing of these beds is, to keelthem constantly in a due degree of moisture, and,all, not to suffer them ever to receive too much wet;that would inevitaDly destroy the spawn of the muso r0 ° rn f'During the summer, they may be uncovered, to wf sosgentle showers of rain to them at propel rimes} an “’weather continues dry for a long while together, stbe right to water them gently now and then, b ut X |. smeans to oveido it. During the winter, they nmkept as dry as possible, and closely covered, lest c e ,

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