360 Mans Work on the Farm 



almost forgotten the fact, it is to Asia that the world is 

 indebted for the most important of its food-plants. 



But with all that man has done, and widely as his 

 influence is felt beyond his own especial domains, he 

 has at present taken but a small portion of the soil 

 actually under his own care ; and even in that small 

 portion he would, as we have seen, be quite helpless — 

 unable to produce even so much as a single crop — 

 without the constant help of the many natural labourers 

 who are always at work, some or other of them, day 

 and night, summer and winter, in every part of the 

 * great world's farm.' 



