Gaspari v. Muhlenberg Township Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

Prior to recent years, commercially grown mushrooms obtained most of their substance, but fortunately, not their flavor, from horse manure. Professor Leon Bussell Kneebone of the Pennsylvania State University, who has charge of the Mushroom Experimental Station at that university, testified in this case: “. . . The Mushroom is a plant but it is not a plant like a green plant which needs only sun, light, water, carbon dioxide from the air; the mushroom would never *9be able to grow. Tbe mushroom must be fed more like an animal is fed because it cannot make its own…