32 HARNESSING THE EARTHWORM 



the means through which he may become the literal master of 

 his own earth. 



All the necessities, comforts, satisfactions, and luxuries of 

 civilization wait upon the production of food and food comes 

 from topsoil. As a master-builder of topsoil throughout the ages, 

 the earthworm in nature has played a leading role. Under scien- 

 tific control and intensive propagation, the earthworm is destined 

 to play a major part in the future development of topsoil and its 

 maintenance at the highest point of productive capacity. 



The topsoil of the future, beginning with the immediate 

 present, will be built by man exactly to meet his balanced food 

 requirements. Working intelligently with the same tools, mate- 

 rials, and forces with which nature has worked throughout the 

 ages, but in highly accelerated tempo, each individual, here and 

 now, may begin to build his own soil. Whether the individual 

 works with a single flower pot or window box, a few square feet 

 of earth in a city yard, or in a roomy garden, on orchard or farm, 

 each man, woman, and child can put the earthworm to work, with 

 all the allied forces of nature and cheaply abundant materials at 

 hand, and begin to build security for all the tomorrows of the 

 future. 



THE NEW FRONTIER 



The crowding populations of the earth stand on the last 

 frontier a new frontier. Circling the globe, they have met. 

 There are no more horizons, marking the boundary of a new and 

 better Promised Land. Among conflicting ideologies and chang- 

 ing social systems, a basic fact stands out: We cannot move east 

 or west, north or south here we stand and must stand. 



At this point, the reader may appropriately ask a few ques- 

 tions: What is this new frontier, upon which I am apparently 

 standing? Where is it? I am anxious to explore it, adapt my- 

 self and build security for me and mine. And, incidentally, 

 where do earthworms come into the picture? 



