Odour Cologne It Sure Ain't
Some college students have earned extra cash to sniff livestock excrement. Students at Purdue University in Indiana can earn $30 per session to inhale and then rate whiffs of air collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens. It's a science experiment conducted by a professor of agricultural and biological engineering. He's searching for ways to improve methods for estimating the distance that livestock farm's odour emissions can travel.
9 comments:
Furthur proof of just how far college kids will go for beer money. I SO don't miss those days!
No photos to go with this little gem?!!
It might be easy money but I don't think I could do it! :(
THAT just stinks!
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At one time my nose was very good at identifying odors. No longer, sad to say, because something can be getting too hot in the house, like a pan on the stove or an electrical appliance and I can not smell it. I'm assuming all the years I've doctored for my sinuses and allergies has caused this problem. So that wouldn't be a job for me. And even if I could still smell, I certainly wouldn't want that job. I've already been close to chicken pens and the smell was so bad, it made your eyes water, it was a smell like ammonia. Pigs on the other hand is just plain BAD smeling, and if the famer is clean, they really don't have to smell that bad. Living in a farming area, some farmers use to spread liquid pig manure around and that smell could come into our little town. I can't imagine what it must have smelled like out by the farm.
wonder if I could could back to childhood and Dad would pay me $30.00 for all that barn cleaning??
Haha, laughing at casdok (no photos).
sniff - wot a lot of poo about sniff nowt.
Yikes I'll pass on that job thanks - having been raised on a farm I can say; been there done that :)
Great blog. Love your humor, David. My nephew was one of the students paid to do this. He said that like dogs do, they tried to suspend the disgust factor.
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