Re: history of compost

Steve Diver (steved@ncatark.uark.edu)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:50:42 +0000

In thinking about variations on compost making, and on the
decision to make compost or apply organic residues directly to
land.... the following historical quotes come to mind.

Steve Diver

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"The test of any process for converting the waste products
of agriculture into humus is flexibility and adaptability to
every possible set of conditions"
Sir Albert Howard
An Agricultural Testament, 1940

"What are you to make manure of? Animal bedding, lupin
vines, chaff, bean vines, husks, foliage of evergreen oaks
and other oaks."
Cato
De Agricultura, 2nd Century B.C.
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