 | 1896 - 844 pages
.... Worms probably provide new soils for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...void of fermentation ; and consequently sterile.' — Gilbert White, 1777. 'It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1898 - 448 pages
...former because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work ; and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these...fermentation, and consequently sterile; and besides, in favor of worms, it should be hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers are not so much injured by... | |
 | Selina Gaye - 1900 - 412 pages
...hated the worm in his day, as the former at least do still ; but he remarks that they would find ' the earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile.' The earthworm is an animal possessed apparently of more than the traditional nine lives, and endowed... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1903 - 170 pages
...field of study, has declared, as a result of his own investigations, that "without worms the earth would soon become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile." They are Nature's own gardeners and tillers of the soil. They people the sod, and feed the roots of... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 pages
...where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile. . . . These hints we think proper to throw out, in order to set the inquisitive and discerning at work.... | |
 | 1914 - 588 pages
...grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes, where the rain washes the earth away. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile" (Letter Ixxvii.). The elder Buckland spoke of them as "hitherto unappreciated fellow laborers with... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1917 - 504 pages
...where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile. , . , These hints we think proper to throw out, in order to set the inquisitive and discerning to work.... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...where the rain washes the earth away; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. .... The earth without worms would soon become cold, hardbound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile These hints we think proper to throw out, in order to set the inquisitive and discerning at work. A... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1922 - 464 pages
...stalks into the soil; and most of all by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile. Photo: JJ Ward. BRANCHED HAIRS FROM THE BODY OF A HUMBLEBEE, WITH POLLEN-GRAINS ENTANGLED The pollen,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1922 - 170 pages
...washes the earth away." He goes on to point out that though gardeners and farmers detest worms, they " would find that the earth, without worms, would soon...become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation." You may remember how Darwin describes the work of earth-worms in preparing for vegetable growth a superficial... | |
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... provide new soil for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms ; the former because they render their walks unsightly,... 
