On 5/18/2017 4:13 PM, songbird wrote:
Frank wrote:
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Nice living next to a farm except when they are working on it. People
move out in the country then complain about the smell of farm animals.
Around here there are many mushroom houses. It's hell for those near
them when they clean out the mushroom house. Some days I can smell the
compost pits where they make compost for them and they are over 5 miles
away.


we lived a few hundred feet from a dairy
farm for 14 years. that did not bother us
except the year he tried to keep pigs then
we (the entire neighborhood) got after him.
a dairy farm smells good if they run the farm
right you won't be disgusted by it.

i wonder what they are composting? in my
experience you can compost almost anything
and not smell it that much.

there are people in this neighborhood who
have pigs. we usually don't notice them too
often and while it isn't particularly a
pleasant smell it's not horrid and unbearable.
nothing i'd ever complain of.

i usually enjoy it here except the times
when they are spraying or plowing on such
windy days. none of it makes sense. the
sprays don't go where they're aimed and the
topsoil blows away. not that they actually
have good topsoil any longer - they've
turned it back to subsoil.


songbird

In the old days the plowing up of the land in the Great Plains caused a
lot of problems as the farmers used the wrong sort of plowing devices
for that sort of land.

Weatherheads are claiming we might get rain for the next two or three
days. I hope they got out their JUJU dolls and did a dance before they
said that.

Most of our part of Texas is the bottom of the old ocean that became the
Gulf of Mexico. Then thousands of years of plants, trees etc. made it
into rich soil. Unfortunately our builder put in five feet of gumbo clay
to get us out of the flood zone. We are slowly adding gypsum to the land
in hopes gypsum will help to turn the clay into soil as two inches of
sand on top of clay hardly will support grass.

89F out there this afternoon, I don't know who invented air conditioning
but thank him or her.

George