Thermophylic composting of humanure - 2

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Hare Krsna Dasi wrote:

 

The point here is that time, alone, is not sufficient to render humanure

> safe for the vegetable garden. A composting process with adequate

> vegetable matter to insure the proper carbon/nitrogen ratio for

> thermophilic bacteria to heat up and act to kill the pathogens is

required.

 

I would disagree.

 

Howards findings in all over India were that around every village there was

a fertile belt where the grain or other crops grew much more intensly and

profusely than closer in. This he discovered was due to the places where

the villagers had been going out to pass effluent. (from the 'Remaking of

Village India', circa 1926. Oxford University press)

But as you say for a vegetable garden's immediate use - high temperatures

are necessary - therefore he developed in Indore Composting method based on

the ancient practices of the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese and the dates of

research go back as far as 4,700 years in Farmers of Forty Centuries (Dr.

F.H. King)

Remember these peoples were feeding the highest densities of population on

the planet....' In the Shantung Province, a farmer with a family of twelve

kept one donkey, one cow and two pigs on 2.5 acres of cultivated land a

density of population at the rate of 3,072 people, 256 donkeys, 256 cattle

and 512 pigs per square mile. The average of seven Chinese holdings visted

(by Dr. F.H. King) gave a maintenance capacity of 1,783 people, 212 cattle

or donkeys and 399 pigs - nearly 2,000 consumers and 400 rough food

transformers per square mile of farmland. In comparison with these figures,

the corresponding statistics for 1900 in the case of the United States per

square mile were: population 61, horses and mules 30.'

 

(from the 'Lost Science of Organic Cultivation' Brahma Publications)