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[Barbara Lamar <blamar AT satx.rr.com>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> Does anyone have a copy of One Straw Revolution? If so, please look 
> this up. (I loaned my copy to a grateful but dastardly young man who 
> has added my book to his library.) My memory is that the mud balls 
> only had one or three seeds in them. I can't imagine a ball with 
> hundreds of seeds in them.

Your memory is accurate, Gene.  pp 43-44 (ONE STRAW REVOLUTION,1978 
edition): "If rice is sown in the autumn and left uncovered, the seeds 
are often eaten by mice and birds, or they sometimes rot on the ground, 
and so I enclose the rice seeds in little clay pellets before sowing."

Barbara