 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 oldal
...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...where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms ;... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 740 oldal
...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...Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes, when the rain washes the earth away . . . Earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound, and... | |
 | Maison, N. & Kumar - 1964 - 264 oldal
...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...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... | |
 | The Farmer's Magazine. - 1835 - 548 oldal
...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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... 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... 
