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Re: prejudiced? (fwd)

w/ hardware cloth.u pick the mesh size/angle of incline/diameter of
cylinder/length of cylinder/power source to turn/#,size of sorting trays
to be placed below and at end of harvester. They are comercially
available also, but ,I should think the a bunch of self-reliant folks
such as ourselves could make our own.
william evans

sal schettino wrote:
> 
> I think those worms could go a long way in eating the extra animal manure
> and maybe even keep it out of our water suply also and you can feed the
> worms to the checkens,  How do you make the harvesters?
> 
> At 10:16 AM 6/13/98 -0700, William Bryan Evans wrote:
> >Victor Guest wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> >> >Ha Ha Ha,
> >> >> >What a beaut!
> >please sstop and crack the books people.  I'm sorry, but high school
> >chem was9th grade.Hydrogen watchout Dioxide was a joke then(1975).
> >Or maybe y'all like to play dumb . Either way...
> >]New subject  Vermiculture/Agriculture lets tie the 2 2gether.
> >I believe that under controlled conditions one can realize a 300 fold
> >increase in numbers in 90 days (Eisenia foetida..red wiggler/manure
> >worm/brandling worm. So if your breeder operation was nothing more than
> >a hot house say 15 meters by three, at the end of three months time you
> >could take babies out and distribute to
> >            300 new hot houses
> >and so on..
> >Ive seen the harvesters it is possible to separate castings from egg
> >capsules from babies from breeders. General rule in animal husbandry,
> >keep separate
> >if you dont you dont see the exponential increase
> >in other words  if you just divide bedding material via shovel
> >your then depriving babies of food due to competion w mature worms.
> >
> >Instead run bedding thru harvesters to separate capsules.capsules go
> >into new bedding.
> > You don't run baby chicks under foot of chickes an roosters?
> >Dont do the same w/ worms and youu'ww see exponential increase in demand
> >for feed.
> >What to feed?
> >green waste
> >only 3+billion tons yearly in the united States of America.
> >yes I believe sewage sludge is included in that number
> >All it would take is
> >economies of scale to increase efficiency to eventually wipeout
> >Big Oil's hold on the fertilizer industry.
> >
> >300 fold increase in numbers in 90 days
> >
> >picture a mobile shredder in suburbia.. puls up to the curb and proceeds
> >to shred the homeowners green waste on the spot.  The homeowner is
> >compensated by a reduction in his bill. The waste hauler is compensated
> >by lowered tipping fee at the local dump.  The municipality is
> >compensated by stretching  out the life of the land fill.
> >What does the homeowner do w/ the shredded green waste.
> >Feeds his compost pile/worms/garden
> >goodbye Ammonium Sulfate
> >Hello worm castings
> >william evans
> >
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