DCHP-3

mussel mud

Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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sea mud used as fertilizer.

Quotations

1825
Plenty of manure [is] at hand, either kelp, seaweed, mussle-mud. . . .
1861
These rivers have abundance of muscle mud, so valuable as manure.
1915
This mussel-mud, as it is called is a very valuable fertilizer and, up to two years ago, the immense shell-mud deposits of St. Peter bay were practically untouched....
1965
The land [in P.E.I.] was not mined to exhaustion; instead the sea enriched it; "mussell-mud," heavy with lime, was dredged laboriously from the coves and inshore waters; a herring was planted in every potato hill.