THE FRIENDLY WORM.
. The regular top-dressing which worm-casts supply is of much greater value than supposed, but this is a very small benefit compared with the elaborate piecemeal drainage and aeration of the sward which the poor animals are gratuitously executing for the gardener all the year round, and in return for which he executes them. If the worms are so large and abundant as to make the lawn unsightly, it is an evidence of an undrained and unwholesome subsoil; t few drain pipes, and the worm-eating birds will reduce them to the normal number.—"The Garden.'
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Evening Star, Issue 11663, 23 January 1902, Page 1
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96THE FRIENDLY WORM. Evening Star, Issue 11663, 23 January 1902, Page 1
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