Hi,
I met a lady from Victoria, Australia who described to me a method of wall infill / insulation employed in her 1850's fachwerk house built in Victoria state by German or maybe Dutch immigrants. The method employed involved wrapping short length planks with straw and mud to form a biscuit a bit like a shreaded wheat (Shreddies) and then somehow securing these between the timbers. On doing a web search I came across a Google reference to a book making mention of this type of construction being found in Indianna. Check out :-

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8iFZ90Uw3jEC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq=Dutch+biscuits%2Broofing&source=bl&ots=T34yHQUP5F&sig=36UiuFfF0E5Bm6UHUuVv1ZdFS48&hl=en&ei=i4spSvCWJYfLjAeBwvnzCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPA244,M2

Can anyone throw any further light on this practice ?

Regards

Ken Hume