OT: Texas Disaster

[wterrell]

Texas earth!
Reminds me of a time about 30 years back when I decided to raise chickens. I purchased 2000 day old chicks from the poultry research farm of Texas A&M.
Upon receipt of the chicks, I plowed deep furrows in the lower fertile 10 acres down by the creek and immediately buried the chicks up to their necks. Next morning all the chicks were dead!
Being quite disturbed with this outcome (and having invested my future profits from the farm in the purchase of the chicks) I complained to the AG. dept. at Texas A&M which promptly replaced the chicks and added an extra 500 as a bonus.
The chicks were promptly buried, with no lost time, with only their heads protruding from the fertile loame, but again the results were 2500 dead chicks.
I immediately wired a telegram to the AG. dept. at Texas A&M to report the results of my chicken raising enterprise.
The reply from Texas A&M: "Send soil sample!"