 | Johan Erik Vesti Boas - 1924 - 866 pages
...perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants . . . and, most of all by throwing up such infinite numbers...worm-casts, which being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass", og han fortsætter med at sige „that the earth without worms would soon become... | |
 | George Goudie Chisholm - 1925 - 998 pages
...it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves into it ; acd, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth, called worm -casts, which, being their excrement, ua fine manure for grain and grass.' For a remarkable illustration... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves...worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes where the rain washes the... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres % & 9 : : for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes where the rain washes the... | |
 | Clive A. Edwards - 2004 - 458 pages
...without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibers of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of...worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass ... Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms; the former because... | |
 | Beatrice Trum Hunter - 2004 - 132 pages
...by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it impervious to rain and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves...twigs into it; and most of all, by throwing up such an infinite number of lumps of earth called 23 wormcasts, which being their excrement, is a fine manure... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...; by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants ; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves...worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills, and slopes, where the rain washes the... | |
 | Maison, N. & Kumar - 1964 - 264 pages
...them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants by drawing straws, and stalks of leaves,...numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes where the... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 740 pages
...loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants ; by drawing straws and twigs into it ; and most of all by throwing up...worm-casts, which being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes, when the rain washes the... | |
 | The Farmer's Magazine. - 1835 - 548 pages
...rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and the stalks of leaves into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth." Again he says, " that the earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation... | |
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For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and... 
