 ... which cinders had been spread out only half a year before, Mr. Darwin actually saw the castings of the worms heaped on the smaller fragments. Nor is the agency so trivial as it at first might be thought, the great number of earth-worms (as every one...  The Student, and Intellectual Observer - Page 4271869Full view - About this book
 | Agriculture - 1839 - 520 pages
...smaller fragments. Nor is tho agency so triviul as it at first might be thought, the great number ef earth-worms (as every one must be aware who has ever...On the above hypothesis, the great advantage of old pasture-laud, which farmers are always particularly averse from breaking up, is explained ; for the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1838 - 666 pages
...fragments. On the above hypothesis, the great advantage of old pasture land, which farmers arc always averse to break up, is explained; for the worms must require...of the soil, as well as the manures added by man. The author observes, that the digestive process of animals is a geological power of greater extent... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1838 - 834 pages
...worms must require a considerable length )f time to prepare a thick stratum of mould, by horoughly mingling the original constituent parts of the soil, as well as the manures added by man n the peaty field, in fifteen years, about three luches and a half had been well digested. It is probable... | |
 | 1839 - 500 pages
...thought, the great number of Earth-worms (as every one must be aware who has ever dug in a grass-field) making up for the insignificant quantity of work which...pasture-land, which farmers are always particularly averse from breaking up, is explained ; for the worms must require a considerable length of time to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 536 pages
...lunatic is one who has lucid intervals, but this distinction may also at the present day be disregarded. On the above hypothesis, the great advantage of old...pasture-land, which farmers are always particularly averse from breaking up, is explained ; for the worms must require a considerable length of time to... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1843 - 424 pages
...of old pasture-land, which farmers are always particularly averse from breaking up ; for (he says) the worms 'must require a considerable length of time...of the soil, as well as the manures added by man." Mr. Darwin is convinced " that every particle of earth in old pasture-land has passed through the intestines... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 584 pages
...has ever dug in a grass-field) making up for the insignificant quantity of work which each performa On the above hypothesis, the great advantage of old...as the manures added by man. In the peaty field, in 15 years, about 3J inches had been well digested. It is probable however that the process is continued,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...thought, the great number of Earth-Worms (as every one must be aware who has ever dug in a grass-field) making up for the insignificant quantity of work which...prepare a thick stratum of mould, by thoroughly mingling tho original constituent parts of the soil, as well as the manures added by man. In the peaty field,... | |
 | Geology - 1838 - 640 pages
...thought ; the great number of earth-worms (as every one must be aware, who has ever dug in a grass-field) making up for the insignificant quantity of work which...each performs. On the above hypothesis, the great advantRge of old pasture land, which farmers are always particularly averse from breaking up, is explained... | |
 | Physics - 1838 - 1340 pages
...thought; the great number of earth-worms (as every one must be aware, who has ever dug in a grass-field) making up for the insignificant quantity of work which...On the above hypothesis, the great advantage of old pasture land, which farmers are always particularly averse from breaking up, is explained 5 for the... | |
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