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1 Yes, I see how green harvests are ploughed up to fertilise the soil .
2 Yet experience surely entitles us to believe that this explosion, like that which preceded it, will fertilise the soil which it has devastated.
3 With fire you could cook meat and clear land for planting; with ash you could fertilise the soil ; with smoke you could make signals.
4 In 2009, the company rented around 200 goats for a week to eat the grass and fertilise the soil at its California headquarters.
5 Here, under the influence of the heat and moisture, they rapidly decompose and disappear, fertilising the soil .
6 The blood which has been poured out on the battlefield fertilises the soil ; but Abel's blasted the earth.
7 Keeping the grass at bay are 70 Sebastopol geese which also do a good job fertilising the soil .
8 The great stream which fertilises the soil is, at the same time, the chief highway of Eastern commerce.
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