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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Burning might be the best option if he can't afford to
have it hauled or treat it as waste, his insurance
won't allow him to have gardeners come get pickup
truckfuls, he has no fields to spread it on/ no equip
to spread it with, or if he knows it is contaminated
with bad weeds or disease.  Why the selling-feature
"the ash is a rich fertilizer", since the manure was a
rich fertilizer to start with?


--- lee reich <> wrote:

> You're right, it is a waste of nitrogen and bulk.
> Potash and other minerals would remain.
> 
> Lee Reich
> www.leereich.com
> 
> 
> On Jan 31, 2005, at 7:05 PM, breezyhill wrote:
> 
> >  Someone I know is burning an accumulation of
> horse manure rather than 
> > composting it. He has been told that this produces
> a very rich 
> > fertilizer. I am aghast. Surely all of the lovely
> N and soil 
> > conditioning properties are lost. Would there be
> anything left except potash?
> >



                
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