Word: subsoil
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...Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during the winter. If it kept up still longer, it might replenish the subsoil moisture enough to make possible a good winter wheat crop next year...
...baseball fields and suburbs.") Not all Saharan oases are natural, Seabrook discovered. Some have been fed for centuries by long underground aqueducts which pick up moisture in the distant mountains, carry a thin stream of water some 30 ft. under the baking sand. These conduits, bored through the clay subsoil by no one knows whom, have to be cleared periodically and for this have manholes 50 ft. apart. Seabrook went down one of these fougaras and crawled painfully a quarter-mile, was glad to emerge muddily into sunlight again. Seabrook called on Pére Yakouba, quickly finished his business...
...York, published in the current bulletin of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station, Syracuse, N. Y. Mouse Man Hatt's brief for mice: They till the soil with their burrowings, are especially helpful in wet lowlands when their tunnels act as drains. Like the earthworm they bring subsoil to the surface, carry vegetable matter underground to enrich the soil. Excreta and dead mice are good fertilizers. the mouse furnishes carnivorous animals with a handy dinner. If the mouse supply were depleted, birds of prey, predatory mammals and reptiles would be forced to resort to other animals, might invade...
What will become of the undergraduate clubs? The older ones which sink their roots into the social loam and financial subsoil of the surrounding community, academic Cantabrigian and urbane Bostonese, will no doubt go on much as usual, at least for the present...
...more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper. He preferred to deal with another subsoil wealth-the oil that John D. Rockefeller and his partners were selling. In that way he met the late Marcus Daly, western mine-promoter and Montana banker. John D. Ryan in 1901 (when he was 37) helped to organize the Daly Bank and Trust Co. at Butte, Montana, and later became...