Yes, I see how green harvests are ploughed up to fertilise the soil.

Yet experience surely entitles us to believe that this explosion, like that which preceded it, will fertilise the soil which it has devastated.

With fire you could cook meat and clear land for planting; with ash you could fertilise the soil; with smoke you could make signals.

In 2009, the company rented around 200 goats for a week to eat the grass and fertilise the soil at its California headquarters.

Here, under the influence of the heat and moisture, they rapidly decompose and disappear, fertilising the soil.

The blood which has been poured out on the battlefield fertilises the soil; but Abel's blasted the earth.

Keeping the grass at bay are 70 Sebastopol geese which also do a good job fertilising the soil.

The great stream which fertilises the soil is, at the same time, the chief highway of Eastern commerce.