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take a scientist to utilize the principles they are so extremely 

 simple. Stated in a few words, the basic principles are: Com- 

 post soil-building earthworm food; add water; add worms or 

 earthworm egg-capsules ; keep wet and let nature take her course. 

 All variations from these simple basic principles are made for 

 convenience and efficiency, regardless of whether we work in a 

 small way with a box or tin can, or a specially designed culture 

 bed; or work in a larger way with carefully built compost beds, 

 which may contain even hundreds of tons of composted source 

 materials. In earthworm culture as in other things, results will 

 naturally depend upon the skill and care used in following the 

 basic principle involved. 



We have written a book in an endeavor to create a mental 

 picture of the most important animal in the world the earth- 

 worm. When the question is asked, "Can I build topsoil?" the 

 answer is "yes." And when the first question is followed by a 

 second question, "How can I do it?" the answer is "Feed earth- 



