Wanting to do a post on a corn maze I
drive by, I was beaten to the subject by Brig.
No way to top that.
Then I discovered none of my snaps turned
out. Blurred, one and all.
What you get is a farm country story.
A local farmer was manureing his field. For those not familiar with the
term, he was spreading dried cow feces, which enriches the soil by providing nutrients
for future crops.
Returning to his stockpile, he neglected
to disconnect the power to his manure spreader. At each bump, some of the
remaining load shook loose and he manuered Westbound WCR 44.
And that is all I’ve got right now.
9 comments:
Geez. Just what I need... stop by and get a bunch of crap.
Back when I worked out at that little country school, one of my more dramatic kids just LOVED making an entrance every morning.
One fall morning, when it was quite obvious to anyone breathing that it was fertilizer season, she walked in the back door.
Paused.
Announced loudly, while waving a hand theatrically in front of her nose, "It smells like COW MANEUVERS out there!!"
Ami
Yeah, kind of a shitty post.
Snerk... So he was spreading it far and wide! :-)
He is a Democrat.
It's almost a Haiku!
Hillary Clinton
They thought she would never lose
A farmer manured
(Hillary = 3 syllables, obvs)
LSP
The benefit of a classical education?
I live in a subdivision surrounded by corn and soybean fields. I endure the stench of these farmers manuring their land every fall.
Seems like somebody could invent a way to compress cow shit into pellets that didn't stink to high heaven. I grew up in Oregon where every grass seed farmer would burn their fields after each harvest, and accordingly spread burnt field cinders over the entire state. Oregon eventually outlawed that practice (along with everything else), and thus stopped the farmers from externalizing their costs on the rest of us.
You would think that Illinois and Colorado, since they love regulating every damn thing under the sun, would ban farmers spreading smelly shit all over the place that us taxpayers have to put up with. Nope, the stench is like the swallows coming home to Capistrano, happens every year.
Fredd
The emigrant (P)regressives haven't yet perverted the State Constitution. I live in a "Right to Farm" county, something enshrined in the State Constitution.
Several years ago the sugar beet factory closed and was replaced by a cheese factory. Much less odor. We do have a very large meat packing plant. We are also surrounded 360° by feedlots and dairy operations. Depending on the wind, we know we are in farm country.
As a yewt (Joe Peschi's pronunciation of 'youth'), I worked in a beet cannery: yes, the stench was overpowering at times. And I would come home with every garment on me stained that putrid purple color.
I hate beets to this day.
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