Do you have any bat guano left? I just shot my last load.

Hello everyone,

I found an interesting article about the importance of bats in the civil war. There feces would be used to make gunpowder.

"Most folks don’t know it, but this Greenbrier Countyhole in the ground had something absolutely vital for the Confederate prosecution of the Civil War. Bat poop. Locals knew as far back as the American Revolution that Organ Cave had a lot of bats. And lots of bats mean lots of nitrates in the soil. And nitrates in the soil mean saltpeter, and saltpeter means gunpowder."

I thought this followed our class's obsession with the digestive system.

Happy reading,
http://sundaygazettemail.com/section/News/Wild%20&%20Wonderful/2006051314?pt=0

Alex