[TheForge] Re: bone clean up

[Mike Spencer]

> maggots ???? you gotta be kiddin !!!

One year in the 70s, I persuaded a small fish plant to deliver all
their fish guts and carcases (after filetting) to a heap in my lower
field.  It made spectacularly great fertilzer when composed with
pickup-loads of cow manure from a neighbor.  Needless to say, the fish
guys got way ahead of me and the heap turned into a seething mass of
maggots.  A couple of years later, that heap was just a pile of clean,
loose fishbones.

(Various yarns omitted regarding bears, fly population, the friends'
dog that had to ride home in a VW beetle after a roll, the 3AM visit
from the Mounties in response to a complaint from the snow plow
operator about herrings on his plow etc.  :-)

I do have some nice pig jaws and teeth that are spotless after 10
years out in the weeds.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
mspencer@tallships.ca            
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/