From: "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Homestead] Gene Logsdon on Farm Waste
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:45:47 -0400
This is preaching to the choir, but still a good read.
Lisa
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>From *Gene Logsdon *(1980)
With Addendum July 2008
*Garden Farm Skills*
The folk belief that a plaster of fresh cow dung (why is it you must write
dung, but can't write what everyone says? They're both four-letter words
meaning exactly the same thing) would help a cut was laughed into
fantasyland, then damned into oblivion as suicidal. Putting dirt on a cut
would lead to lockjaw and death, said the righteous.