Posted by JWmHarmon on June 05, 2002 at 12:05:48:In Reply to: Re: Horses in the city- aroma? posted by Vince Fontana on June 03, 2002 at 10:17:31:
The farm implement you saw may have been a manure spreader. This is basically a wagon pulled by a team of horses or by a tractor. It would have a conveyor belt usually made of steel bars connected to a chain driven by the wheels. The conveyor would carry the manure to the rear of the wagon. On the back of the wagon there were probably some steel shafts with blades similar to paddle wheel blades that would fling the manure out the back, dispersing it over a wider area. This is good fertilizer for the field. The oder (aroma??) is different for cow manure, pig maure, horse manure, and other manures.
I can still remember using a pitchfork to dig out and load dried cow manure onto our manure spreader from my dairy farm days. I assure you that there was a great difference between cow manure and bull manure. Those few of us that have had the experience of stepping in this "fragrant" stuff know why we have the rather course English language expression "bullshit" to decribe something that is a "big mess."
Unless you have had the experience yourself, you will never really quite understand just how big a bull looks to a terrified and intimidated five year old boy.
Maybe that's why I don't like standing next to the enormous skyscraper walls on the intimidating blank side of the building in the "concrete canyons" of some of our cities.
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