Philip Poburka on sun 10 nov 02
I wonder this...and maybe I do so naively...
If the Cow Dung shortage is not a ruse...and if they get the
kind of dough for their Pots as I have been hearing...and if
it costs say, a fiftieth or so to live where they do, as say
where I do, and...
Could they not maybe buy Cow Dung from nearbye areas,
districts, regions?
There are many poor people in Mexico...there are many
Industrious people in Mexico...if they let it be know
they're payin' a Peso a pop, or a half-a-one, or whatever, I
think that entrepreneural folks would bring 'em about all
they could ever want.
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Snail Scott"
To:
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: mata ortiz, side bar
At 10:00 PM 11/9/02 -0500, you wrote:
>What is it about cow pies that is special? Would it be
>possible (gross, yes, but possible?) to use human-pies
instead?
Nope. It's gotta be herbivore poop. (And no,
vegetarian-poop won't do it, sorry.) And what's
special about cowpies is their structure - wide,
thin, and flat. Cowpies can be layered around the
firing saggar, leaned up against it in an even
covering. And they stay put, intact until late
in the burning. Horse poop just piles up in a heap
around the bottom of the saggar, leaving the top
uncovered unless the bottom of the pile is way too
thick. Horse poop is usable for combustion
material inside the saggar, to give blackware, but
not as firing fuel, unless the manner of firing is
fundamentally altered.
-Snail
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