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Farm Analysis Meeting, 3 September, 78
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Attendance:  Russell Moten, Harold Cordell, Don Bowers, Gene Chaikin, Sarah Tropp, James Morrell, Guy Mitchell, Shirley Snith, Eartis Jeffery, James Simpson, Freesedry Smith, Demosthenes Kutulas, Tish Leroy, Darrell Devers, Danny Marshall, Vicky Marshall, Caroline Kirkendall, Chris Talley, Carolyn Layton, Jan Wilsey and Joselyn Carter.

     Planting:  Got some of the plowing done today, first in long time.  Gene to lay out plant material for the peanuts in the morning.  Lay out the stuff for the garden.  Plowed in a lot of pig shit this morning.  However, was from the piggery compost pile that had a lot of diesel in it.  Freeserdry commented he had noticed a lot of oil draining off of the stuff he got...when rains hit it.  Tish commented that stateside they use diesel to kill weeds and grasses.  Demosthenes confirmed: said he used a combination of diesel and kerosene and it killed the weeds for a year--nothing grows when this is used as a rule.  Russell said that most of the fertilizers are petroleum derivatives...May not be relavent...
     Russell was to have checked the compost with the diesel to report if it could be used on gardens and he has not done this.  Now it is in the garden.  The resolution Gene suggested was to plant one row of radishes, a fast grower, and in 5 days we will know...Rest that we are not planted is to go in the area where we have none of the compost (sic).
     Every other row in okra suggested Gene...Tish had mentioned need for the salad greens, Carolyn Layton mentioned talking with Joyce T. on this.  Analysts agreed to grow more salad greens...the shading will be needed for the lettuce.  Will alternate with chinese cabbage, which can also be used raw; is tender.
     Tish asked about the Timpala spinach which reseeds itself and can be eaten raw and does not have the oxalic acid crystals when eaten raw...Gene says can order this from Yates in Georgetown...Jack to place an order for some of the seed.