On 05/18/2017 03:49 PM, Frank wrote:
On 5/18/2017 5:13 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
I don't mind the occasional smell of compost but it can be intense if
nearby. Fire company at PA township made the composter install a bridge
to help them as they were constantly putting out compost fires.
You're right about pigs. Friend had a couple and smell was not that bad
but I used to bicycle a road where there were a lot of them and smell
was nauseating. I also bicycled through an orchard and when they
sprayed I figured anyone within a half mile would have no bug problem.
When I was stationed in Germany, my wife and I use to love community
hikes called Volks Marches.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=volks+marches&t=ffab&ia=web
One of British our NATO friends we use to hike with would
rhapsodize over livestock pee-pee by whiffing in and proclaiming
"Ah, the smell of the country".
We still crack up over it today.