[Sca-cooks] planting fish

[Terry Decker]

Organic fertilizers are specialty items commonly used by specialty or 
organic farmers.  For the average business, lower cost chemical fertilizers 
are the ticket.

Most third world countries use either chemical fertilizers or some form of 
dung.  The reason the Eastern Amerinds used fish was that they had digging 
sticks rather than plows.  It is difficult to work dung into the soil 
without a plow.  BTW, the plow came into use around 3000 BCE and is the 
invention that marks the beginning of extensive use of fertilizers.

Bear

> You mention that "even today we use fertilizers based on fish, 
> seaweed...". Is this in the industrial countries like the U.S. or do  you 
> just mean in the third-world and developing countries?
>
> Stefan