Show 0 ort 14 earthworm Carth worm the earths earthworms of at the island of madagascar says a magazin t writer are specially rem remarkable anable of the mailer smaller species core thau rus rue and oeta bist occur ane most frequently A truly gi gantle spec cecle let was discovered by me in Ky Kyno notus tui darwin ll I 1 posse several specimens of the thic kne of the an ger and a yard and a half in length in the formation of mold and preparation of the boll thay take a preeminent hare share for they make deep passages in the ground and thui thus contribute to the airing and breaking up of the surface mold these gigantic anne an nellda lids after the fashion of our earthworms at home pass a man mais I 1 n of I 1 earth through their Inte atin to cast it up afterward on the surface lur face masses of these lumps of excrement lie about in many places when dry they weigh on an average from four and a half to live ounces anil and some mens attain tain the weight of from six to alz tz and a halt bait ounces the disturb ju aice ce of soil 1101 must thus bo be very considerable sid erable and it U la in calculated that the thine anti nals are abl able in n the course of aty fifty yea yara to supply to the surface a stratum three feet la ilk thickness there 2 are times umes wilta area the pastor 1 thinks there Is no athly earthly hope hop for to the choir I 1 |