Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pumpkin Lady <pumpkingal@clearwire.net>]

mdnagel@verizon.net wrote:
> Just how long do you think one can TRUCK in horse manure?  And horses, 
> sorry if I offend anyone here, are of really limited value: look around 
> the world today and see what animals are employed, they're primarily 
> oxen and water buffalo; horses, for their keep, offer very little in 
> comparison.

Ahem, that's because most of the areas that would sustain 
horses usefully as work animals have automobiles for 
transportation. If you were without "trucks" to truck 
things, horses would be a very reasonable thing to have in a 
good many areas of the world. There's a reason you "cart" 
stuff around.

I'm not saying that other animals aren't useful, and there 
ARE saddle cows (yeah, really), but horses are more 
comfortable than cows and typically move faster. That makes 
a difference when mechanized stuff is not around. In areas 
of the world where horses do well and there isn't a lot of 
mechanization, you do find a lot of horses. The thing here 
is, they helped us build our society, and then we got cars 
and made them a luxury animal. Since we don't "need" them, 
people denigrate them.

Morgan