 | 1832 - 526 pages
...into it ; and, most of all, bj throwing op such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass." Farmers and horticulturists have a great hormr of worms, the first, thinking that they devour the green... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...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...slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they aflect slopes, probably, to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...into it, and most of all by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth, called wormcasts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for...hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away 5 and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called wormcasts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass.* Worms probably provide new * The important agency of worms in pastures, in forming mould, by bringing to the surface the finer... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...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." Respiration, both in the Leech and in the Earth-worm, is carried on by means of pores and internal... | |
 | John Fleming - 1859 - 262 pages
...into it ; and most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hilla and slopes when the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...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." The opinions thus advanced by the Rev. Gilbert White, as to the importance and utility of earth-worms,... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1867 - 672 pages
...it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps, called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably...they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Lands that are subject to frequent inundations are always poor ; one great reason of this may probably... | |
 | 1867 - 652 pages
...it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps, called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for bills and slopes, where the rain washes the earth away, and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1870 - 650 pages
...into it; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps called worm-casts, which form a fine manure for grain and grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes when the rain washes the earth away; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. " In... | |
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... 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 twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such... 
