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Title: Mushroom culture and pure culture spawn
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: American spawn company, St. Paul. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Mushrooms. (from old catalog)
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn., American spawn company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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