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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 06:47 PM 2/10/2008, Doug wrote:
>  From my vague memory of things long since read, I think it was usually
> a mixture of cow manure and clay.
Actually, Doug, the person who first told me about it related 
watching her grandfather graft apples, tying the graft with cotton 
string, then slathering straight cow manure on to cover the graft 
union, and, possilbly the entire scion - the latter part I don't know 
- guess I need to ask her.

Have you ever stepped in a cowpie that's been lying out in the sun 
for a day or two?
It'll have a nice, firm, dry crust, but still be nice and moist 
underneath, squishing right up between your toes(I know Tom O will be 
mortified to think that I'm out walking in my orchard, much less the 
cow pasture, in my bare feet ;>0)
\
Lucky





> 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
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