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Cob cob recipe

Benton J. Miller and Phyllis Rameriz phillis at itlnet.net
Mon Aug 11 18:08:47 CDT 1997 

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Hello,
<BR>Greetings cob people!  We are searching for information regarding
the "recipe" for the mixture of our cob.  What is the ratio of clay,sand,
and straw?  We took a soil sample from the land we plan to build on
and we are not sure how to test it properly.  We put it in a jar and
filled with water, but it just looks like a jar of red mud.  We are
in western Oklahoma and the soil is very red.  Down at the creek on
the land the mud looked very "clayish".
<BR>Anyway, any help would be greetly appreciated.
<BR>If we need to purchase clay for the mixture where will we find it that
would be close enough to make it financially feasible?  I've heard
the Austin,Tx. area has good clay soil.  Just wondering.
<BR>Recipe anyone?

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Many thanks,
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Phyllis and Benton</HTML>