[Terrapreta] Reply from Yury - re charcoal vs bugs, birds, and pigs

[Ron Larson]

Yury:  Thanks - see below for your response below to  one my questions of a few days ago.

Terra preta list members.  The following on one benefit of charcoal is new information to me.

Stovers - This not so pertinent - but this started as a stove discussion and some stovers may be interested.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yury Yudkevich" <charwood at rambler.ru>
To: "Ron Larson" <rongretlarson at comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: About Message Ron Larson Mon, 26 Mar 2007 


> Dear Ron,
> I try to repeat translation. Big charcoaling factories in Soviet Union 
> separated large charcoal from short fraction and a dust. The short 
> fraction was grind down on spherical mills. The received dust was sent 
> on factories of fertilizers. There are insects gnawing through pulp of 
> root crops. These insects leave the sites containing charcoal. 
    [RWL -  Aha.  Thanks for the clarification - that the charcoal was NOT being used to improve the soil, nor to reduce the need for fertilizer, nor to increase soil productivity.  I am a bit disappointed to hear this, but perhaps some Russian scientific papers on charcoal-in-soil still exist.   I wonder what there is about charcoal that might have discouraged the root-gnawing insects?

>The 
> fraction 1 - 2 millimeters was added in a forage for birds and pigs.
    [RWL:  I see.  I think part this does not relate to terra preta topics.

> I ask to excuse my translation. I make translations with the help of 
> dictionaries now. I have ceased to trust electronic translations. I find 
> words in the dictionary. Dictionaries do not take into account shades 
> and a polysemy of words (different in Russian and the English language) 
> frequently.
> Yours
> Yury
        [RWL:  You are doing well.  I am sorry to hear that the automatic electronic dictionary approach is not yet satifactory.  I hope you will excuse me for leaving the problem at your end.  {Anyone know of a good web-based approach to help me?       Again - Thanks.      Ron}
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