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the tribune thursday october 13 1977 3 thieves get 2000 from shop police are in vestigating a breakin at the country fair 61 main st mount albert on the night of september 30- october 1 which netted thieves about 2000 in goods mushrooms can double in size every 24 hours and as the bigger ones are harvested new ones crowd up to take their place destroy photos group mushrooms are grown in tiers in a tern- a mushrooms perature and humidity controlled buildings current crop here fons blommesteyn the owner of triple in gormley inspects the bowmanville a demonstration at the site of the proposed darlington nuclear generating- station has turned into a controversy over pictures taken at the demonstration a spokesman for the want mushrooms just sow wheat by annegret lamure to grow radishes you sow radish seeds to grow carrots you plant carrots seeds so it would seem reasonable to suppose that to grow mushrooms you plant mushroom seeds right wrong to plant mushrooms you sow wheat of course this comes as ho surprise to those of us who regularly sow out a patch of beans in the spring and end up with a fine crop of thistles in the fall but it does amaze a lot of people however fons blommesteyn better known as the mushroom man maintains that there is nothing miraculous about growing mushrooms from wheat the mycelium is grown on wheat grains he says so that what you really do is sow wheat on the beds to plant the mycelium simple but what is mycelium fons who has been growing mushrooms for more than 20 years and now runs triple a mushrooms in gormley took me into one of the long dark buildings and removed a board revealed there was a shelf which appeared to hold a 10 inch layer of mouldy hay he pointed to the white fuzz which filled every space bet ween the stalks from top to bottom thats mycelium fons explains that when a spore germinates mycelium results and that the mushrooms will sprout up from that however he was quick to point out that the worst thing that can happen on a mushroom farm is to let the crop go to spore instead to ensure uniformity and as perfect a mushroom as possible mycelium is grown from the tissue culture of perfect mushrooms one of the mediums used to grow the culture is wheat and this is planted on prepared beds tfes we make consumer loans preparing the planting beds is a whole science in itself since the care taken here will determine the final crop you have to feed them said fons he uses a mixture of horse manure hay and corn cobs supplemented with fresh chicken manure bruised grain and soybean meal to provide sound nutrition the hay and corncobs provide carbon which heats up the soil the grain and soy meal supply protein and the manure is a good source of nitrogen this nourishing mixture is left outside for 14 days to compost and is then piled eight inches high on shelves inside the growing sheds later the mix is pasteurized by pumping hot steam into the buildings this kills insects pests and harmful fungi explained fons after pasteurization the beds are heated to 12s degree farenheit for 10 days this promotes the growth of bacteria mushrooms are not like other plants they dont grow on chemicals fons commented they grow on microbial protein the bodies of bacteria the higher the population of bacteria the better your crop the whole thing sounds rather smelly and unappetizing but in reality is neither the cool air inside the building smells mostly of earth and mushrooms and the mushrooms rise clean and white out of the damp soil if a mushroom farm stinks they dont do their composting right maintains fons after the composting pasteurization and warming of the growing beds or mycelium or mushroom spawn is sown on top it takes about two weeks for the mycelium to penetrate right through the compost and at the end of that time an inch of topsoil is put on top of the beds this prompts the formation of mushrooms and if the term perature is somewhere around 60 degrees and the humidity is high it is not un common to see the mushrooms doubling in size every day fons figures he harvests roughly three pounds of mushrooms per square foot three times a year since he has about 20000 square feet of growing space under production at one time that makes for a lot of mushrooms in three days i can pick 400 baskets two pounds in a house like this said fons one reason for the high yield is that six crops can be harvested from one planting before the beds have to be redone pickers gather the mature fungi and the smaller ones that couldnt develop because of lack of space now have room to mushroom this process continues until six spawns or flushes as the grower calls them have been completed after that further flushes are uneconomical and the beds are cleaned out and the whole process repeated after 20 years in the mushroom business fonz still gets very enthusiastic about- his product- and says hell never get tired of feasting on mushrooms i love them he confessed however he was quick to add that there was one kind of fungi he would never touch i wouldnt eat a wild mushroom ever he said firmly greenpeace foundation has asked that the photos taken by police and ontario hydro be destsroyed in the presence of the demon strators john bennett said protests have been lodged with ontario ombudsman arthur maloney the ontario police com mission ontario provincial police durham regional police the ontario solicitor- generals office and ontario hydro for what he called indiscriminant photographing of demonstrators who were not breaking any laws twelve persons were arrested at the site and charged with trespassing mr bennett said the demonstrators were not opposed to police photographing those under arrest but the type of surveillance by plainclothes opp and durham intelligence officers inhibited or dinary lawabiding citizens from making their political views known publicly he said ken young superintendent of durham regional police confirmed that two in telligence officers took pictures on the site 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