Re: Re: CULT:Steer manure?
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT:Steer manure?
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:49:47 -0600
> From: wendy sargeant <wendon@dcsi.net.au>
>
> 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...
Wendy,
"Steer Manure'' is the generic label for a product marketed at garden
supply stores whose source is the large feedlots at which most beef cattle
in North America undergo a period of high concentrate feeding (finishing)
prior to slaughter. Actually, about as many heifers as steers are run
through these feedlots, but linguistically that fact is generally
overlooked.
Speaking of linguistic oddities, how did a Middle Eastern forage plant
(alfalfa, the Spanish version of the Arabic Al-fachfacha=very good forage)
wind up in Australia bearing the name of a Swiss tourist haven? (-:
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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