(my apologies for the title - I'm a Trekkie. Just bought a Spock
shirt, in fact)

Anyway, today I called numerous places, and visited several large
stores and garden centers in search for "Composted Cow Manure".

In the past, I've been able to find this stuff everywhere in the
Spring. Even small hardware stores had bags of it outside the store for
adding to the garden soil.

Now, they all seem to have bags of "topsoil" instead, or maybe a bag
of humus. The small garden center where I stopped this afternoon said
they had 40 pound bags of (and I quote) "hummus". Now I like hummus,
but usually on crackers, and not as a soil amendment. I'm assuming that
guy doesn't put this on his crackers, hopefully.

Anyway, I tried Kroger's, Mal-Mart, hardware stores, and none of them
had plain old 100% composted cow manure. Mal-Mart did have "compost
WITH cow manure", but I wanted the nutrient rich cow manure compost that
I'm used to putting under trees, shrubs and vegetable plants when I put
them in the ground. I'm a crotchety young gardener who is used to doing
things about the same way as I was taught when I was 3, and I'm
wondering where the poop went.

Is there a national shortage of poop that I'm not aware of? A poop
embargo of some foreign country that gives us more crap than anybody else?

Ah, if only I had this guy nearby.....
http://www.artpricer.info/wp-content...phant-poop.jpg