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Re: prejudiced? (fwd)

what size hardware cloth ?  and I just cannot picture it could you brake it
down a little more and give an example.





  01:17 PM 6/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>> >
>> Sals@rain.org
>> check out an organic growers homepage at:
>> <http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html>http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
> 
Sals@rain.org
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