On 19/08/2014 19:45, harryagain wrote:
"bert" ] wrote in message
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In message , harryagain
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"bert" ] wrote in message
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In message , Chris Hogg
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:16:57 +0100, "harryagain"
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Yes I can see you know nothing about horses.
Working horses need high energy food additionally to grass, ie grain
or
these days "concentrates".
In days of yore,large areas of land were set aside for growing oats
just
to
feed horses and oxen.
You don't get energy from nowhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine_...n#Concentrates

Grass Harry. All grains (wheat, barley, oats etc), they're all
grasses, or didn't you know that? Concentrates are made from them. So
why have all these green machines, the horses, disappeared, Harry?
It's because they've been replaced by infinitely more efficient
machines that burn fuels such as coal or oil.

..and don't produce cart loads of ****.
--
bert

The horse **** is a very useful product.
Unlike the **** we get from burning fossil fuels.


Not in the quantities produced in large cities before the internal
combustion engine came along.

It was all needed, there was no other source of plant nutrient. back then.
I use as much as I can get in my garden.


Not according to the London Transport Museum, which tells us they just
dumped it in the poor parts of the city:

'Fifty-thousand horses were required to keep Victorian London's public
transport running. According to one writer of the time, these horses ate
their way through a quarter of a million acres of foodstuff per year,
and deposited 1000 tonnes of dung on the roads every day. The disposal
of large quantities of horse droppings was a major problem. Dung could
make the roads hazardous and unpleasant when wet. Crossing sweepers made
meagre earnings clearing a path for pedestrians to cross and dung carts
collected and deposited droppings on vast dung heaps in the poorer parts
of town each day'

http://www.ltmcollection.org/resourc...A%20Overground

--
Colin Bignell