Re: Hey Farml, Rob, David and All..

"David Hare-Scott" <compost@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> My best coup yet was hearing on the car radio that the circus was
looking
>> for gardeners to take away elephant poo.  I was 2 minutes from where
the
>> circus was being held and I was in there and had my ute loaded before I
>> could even think aobut the good clothes I was wearing.  I gave it to my
>> husband for growing his corn as a friend told me about 25 years ago
that 
>> it
>> produced the best corn he'd ever grown.  It was great corn!
>
> Once in suburban Sydney the circus came to town with elephants.  After
it 
> had
> gone they were lining up with their wheelbarrows, some almost came to 
> blows.
> The local paper ran an article on wonderous properties of elephant dung!

> Of
> course nobody did any comparison of results with (say) horse manure and 
> most
> of those gardens had not been manured in living memory, so the good
growth
> they got was clearly a result of the amazing properties of the
elephant's 
> bum.
>
> I think that the dung is much like that other large heribovores.

It cirtainly looks very like giant horse poops - nothing like cow poop at 
all though.  I left it in it's bags till it was used on the corn and it 
looked like slightly rotted horse plops to by the time it was used.

The supposed
> magical powers are due to some kind of tranferance because of their size

> and
> the size of the balls of dung.  It's like tiger ***** soup, by consuming

> the
> most potent part of a powerful animal we humans gain some of their
power. 
> Or
> so we imagine.

The bloke who told me about it and said it was good was a professional 
gardener at the time and had been for aobut 20 years and I know that his 
garden was always well manured.  Ours is too but given that corn is a
gross 
feeder, I'm sure it did them a power of good.  The corn we had this year 
wasn't as good as the elephant poop lot, and this year has been a easier 
year than the previous one (in terms of rainfall at least, although I
don't 
think that the temperatures this year were as even as the previous year).