 ... worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without 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 and...  Amphibious animals - Page 526by William Bingley - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants ; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms... | |
 | Maison, N. & Kumar - 1964 - 264 pages
...soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants by drawing straws, and stalks of leaves, and twigs into it, and most of all by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new... | |
 | 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 such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms... | |
 | 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... | |
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