Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — Many Uses for Mushrooms. [ARTICLE]

Many Uses for Mushrooms.

Not only human beings, but cows, sheep, squirrels, and many kinds of birds, are fond of mushrooms. In many places mushrooms are dried Just as our grandmothers once dried apples, strung on strings, and hung from the celling for winter use. Some European species are used In coloring. One yields a yellow dye, another an exquisite green which colors the tree on which It grows; and from this wood is manufactured the celebrated Tunbridge ware. The poor people of Franconia, Germany, dry, press, and stitch together a certain kind of mushrooms, which is then made into garments; and in Bohemia a large round toadstool is dried and the inside removed; it is turned bottom upward, fastened to the wall, and used to hold a beautiful trailing vine, which grows luxuriantly.—St. Nicholas. ,