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Pastimes : R. Harmon's Earth 101
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To: Lilian Debray who wrote (148)5/2/2000 1:27:00 AM
From: .Trev  Read Replies (1) of 183
 
Adendum:-

Well Percy wins the day as usual....Percy Verance I mean.
Searched harder and found my 1938 vintage Atlas, and confirmed that it was indeed the same place but in my day it was just part of India, not a State. My recollection of total annual rain was not so accurate.

May to September is the wet period so if they have any hope this is the time for it. In the drier parts of that continent they have already consumed just about all the trees, and now carefully collect all the cattle manure and mix it with water to a consistency that allows it to stick to the outside wall of the house. When it dries and falls off it's ready for use as fuel on the cooking fire. Gives a nice smoky flavour to the chapatis. Probably just as hygienic as the jerry cans of water.

In recent years a digester for anaerobic digestion of the manure provides methane which can be better stored and then used for cooking, or light or heating.The sludge remaining can then be used as fertilizer to help the formation of humus, and rehabilitation of the soil, just like compost.

It's all a matter of educating the population at large. There's lots of work to be done.

Glad I found the Atlas, as in spite of its tatters it's a bit of history with its addenda sheets covering the changes in European boundaries as they were occurring.

Cheers
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