As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In reading the saga of the Plainsmen beginning with Francis Parkman to Billy Dixon, you will read in those history of the Great Plains of America, interesting observations of weeds. You of course like all the dimwits never thought anything of these huge patches of weeds on the grass plains. It is why God places me here as a teacher to educate those who half brains to expand them a bit more in knowledge.
Billy Dixon wrote of boiling up large kettles of lambsquarter and eating the greens, due to being hungry of the nutrients of vegetables. Where did these huge patches come from? No one was planting them. The prairie was a solid mat of grasses and roots and it was not like weeds could even get started.
I should not actually post this as some asshole who is going to end up in hell for stealing from me like most of you non donors do, is going to steal this and then that is going to become common knowledge. I though am always wondering, contemplating and questioning things the Holy Ghost has me notice and catalogue away that when here am I shown the answers, they are always obvious and I teach.
There were mechanized tillers on the Great Plains. Most think of John Deere or Cyrus McCormick, but there were tillers on the plains even better than the rototillers of today. There were millions of them and they were called buffalo and horses.
Here is how it works as any stockman will now see the answer. Buffalo and horses would congregate in sheltered areas, and it may be out in the open as the plains are odd in you can have a hurricane wind blowing and there will be a pocket where it is calm. We have such a pocket just north of our place. The snow deposits in there, but even in horrific winds, that 50 yard area is usually calm as wind is interesting in it's dancing fingers in how it rolls sometimes and lifts off the land.
So the animals ate the fodder, congregated as it helped in protection against wolves, and they shit. They shit a pile of shit every day. You have a 100,000 animals shitting in the same spot, it starts being an insulation, in fact it will ferment and be warmer for the hooves of the animals. It just keeps getting deeper, so it kills the grass and in a wet fall, the animals would churn up the grass like a tiller and add the shit, and you have a sour piece of ground, meaning it is acidic as shit is acidic, The grass will not grow, but God's acid absorbers in weeds appear to turn the soil into neutral.
I think it was Francis Parkman who wrote of the perplexity of a man who was standing in the middle of nowhere out from camp. They thought there was something wrong with the guy until they walked over to him and they saw him watching Doddle Bugs, You would know them as June Bugs. June Bugs just do not live in rotting mowed lawns for coons, skunks and possums to dig up and eat in grub worms. June Bugs live in shit, piles of buffalo and horse shit as they are part of the rendering process. That is the clue in the June Bugs, they were only there in swarms to watch, because the animals had congregated there the winter before in a feeding ground.
All of these bits of information are lost. Frankly I do not think the writers knew what they were watching, because none of them wrote the answer to what the source was. They recorded strange things like sunflower patches as far as you could see in riding through them, eating lambsquarter or Doodle Bugs, but in each case the source of this was herds of animals shitting in new wintering grounds.
I have to think that in some cases the buffalo must have wintered in the same areas compounding the problem, as sunflowers have a very thick stalk and are tall. They would provide some good protection, unless in the worst ice storms or blizzards. So the animals would bed there.
You never hear of animals being jumped from these weed patches, not even birds. Animals usually do not eat where other animals shit. The grass is always greener there but they do not eat that fodder until the shit is broken down.
So that is your bit of knowledge today that no one else knows, but now everyone knows as the Holy Ghost has the Lame Cherry be Inspired again.
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