> Too obvious, even, eh? Sam Ogden once wrote that a vegetative compost has > everything in it that manure does, plus what the animal didn't take out of > it....
Regarding the workings of the cow's digestive microflora, I suppose one can consider that something is "added to" what the animal "takes in" as vegetative matter, and which is left after it "takes out" for nutrition, just as one can consider that the activity of microorganisms "add to" the vegetative matter in a vegetative compost. Thus, a vegitative compost just might not have everything in it that manure does. As might well also be the case vice versa. _______________________________________________________________________ Barry Lia \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Seattle WA
