Show imbor importance tance of the worm ap apparently patently parent ly what wh it can be emore helpless less s or unrelated thin than an angleworm but one has we well 11 called them plow rs before the plow they render the earth fruitful they are immense sub boilers they chnape chanat the deep earth into surface earth and so renew the soil exhausted with much harvest barvest yielding by careful computation it has been found that in a certain section on the west co coast of africa by the poor angle angleworms worms sixty two thousand and more inore tons ton of subsoil are brought to flip surface of each square mile each year here is a story of their doings as another has told it the most insignificant ant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence and have much more in the economy of nature tr than the most incurious are aware of earthworms abou li in appearance pe arance a small mall and cepi able link in the chain of nature apt et it if lost 1 would make a lamentable chasm worms seem to be the areat promoters I 1 of vegetation which would proceed but lamely lameh without them by horing borina per boratin and loosening loo the soil and rendering it pervious to rams rains and the filers fil er of pIRn plants ts in by dr drawing living straws straw and stalks of f henneg nto it and most of all by bv thawing throw gnp up uch much infinite num nam bers of lumps f earth called borni orm casts cast z li being bein then their excrement is afine fine manure for arrain vi ain and grass ahe earth without worms would soon become cold bard baid blind aci nd and vold void of fer and consequently sterile |