Re: Re: CULT:Steer manure?

Hello Everyone,
I had to type this little email as I have been getting the giggles lately
and its only due to our versions of the english language...But as a dairy
farmer in Aussie land, I find it highly amusing that you often refer to
cattle manure as steer manure...I would be hard pressed to find any steer
manure isolated in my farm, theres really only heifer or cow manure. There
are a few angus steers but it would be really hard to tell theirs from the
mutlitude of "hers"...Isnt all cattle manure the same? In the meantime I
will enjoy the wonderful giggles I get everytime I read this name ...steer
manure...and enjoy the wonderful quirky version of our seemingly similar but
different versions of our universal english language...Cheers All, from
Wendy Sargeant, wendon@dcsi.net.au, Zone 8ish, Victoria, Australia...
----- Original Message -----From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@icx.net>
To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 3:11 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: HYB: lucerne/alfalfa/manure


> Kitty Loberg, northern Calif. said about using 'fresh' (uncomposted)
> steer manure:
> <If you let it get too much on the dry side or just lightly moist, the
> decomposing process, going at full keel, actually makes the mixture get
> very hot...[but]....
> add water (like in water daily or every other day), it'll slow down that
>
> process and keep the soil cool.    I've planted a wide variety of plants
> in
> soil supplemented with "hot" manure, and as long as it is kept watered,
> the
> plants grow like weeds...>
>
> That's reassuring - I was thinking that if I keep the box of seedlings
> with alfalfa cubes under the coarse sand/potting mix well watered and
> out of direct sun, that the composting alfalfa might stay cool enough
> not to hurt the roots, but would decompose fast enough to be good food
> for any roots that cared to grow down that far.  You were talking about
> steer manure,  but it seems the same would apply to alfalfa hay or
> pellets, except that drainage would be poorer with the gooey mess the
> pellets make.  Maybe mixed with sand or gravel for drainage, the pellets
> would be ok too.  Thanks.
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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