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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

From my vague memory of things long since read, I think it was usually 
a mixture of cow manure and clay. Cow manure is a microbial brew mostly 
friendly to cows (as well as useful in their digestive processes) and 
probably unfriendly to things that attack living plants. Just as humans 
foster gut contents friendly to themselves (more or less successfully 
depending on their state of health, genetic endowment, food and ambient 
microbes).

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


Lucky.PIttman@murraystate.edu wrote:
[snip]
> Fresh, steaming-hot cow manure was used with great
> success, 'back in the day'.  I still mean to give it
> a try.
>
> Lucky