Re: Cow Manure
I don't think this is a problem.
We got cow manure straight from the brahma fahma last week. It had already
dried and was intermingled with dirt, straw, rocks.
We assumed that it's because brahmas - and presumably other cattle - die
before ever reaching the potty training stage. They pretty much go when and
where the moo strikes them.
When this is raked up, inevitably other stuff gets raked up too, no one
being willing to pay what they'd have to pay someone to separate the wheat
from the chaff, so to speak, the glitter from the gold.
If the cow manure product works for you, use it! If not, switch to another
product.
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>Subject: Cow Manure
>Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2004, 5:38 AM
>
> For the last two years I have been adding cow manure to my pumpkin patch that
> I purchased from Lowe's. It comes in 40 pound bags for $1.99 a bag and is
> labelled "Cow Manure." It is manufactured by a company in Archbold, Ohio,
> Gardenscape, and is widely used. I was talking to the owner of a local feed
store
> about what he had for sale in the way of cow manure. He had some dehydrated
> manure from Texas that sold for around $4 a bag. I asked him why his was so
much
> more expensive than that at Lowe's. He said it was because what Lowe's was
> selling is not cow manure but compost with some cow manure added. I had been
> putting 20 bags of this stuff on my garden each fall (800 pounds dry) and
feeling
> good about it. The bag says "Cow Manure." Anyway, I called the company in
> Archbold, Ohio and asked about the content of the bag labeled "Cow Manure."
> It turns
> out it is 15 to 20% cow manure and the rest is composted straw and leaves.
> Yesterday I forked 5 tons of smelly, mushy, incredibly hard to deal with,
fresh,
> just out of the cow, manure on my 2000 square foot patch and I feel good
> about it. All that glitters is not gold and all that is labelled cow manure is
not
> just cow manure. Beware.
>
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