Where it can be used by other crops

Where it can be used by other crops

Just as bees gather honey from the flowers and carry it to the hives, where they prepare it for their own future use and for the use of others, so do these root-tubercles gather nitrogen from the air and fix it in their root homes, where it can be used by other crops.

Fig. 24. Soy Beans and Cowpeas, Two Great Soil-Improvers

Fonte: Agriculture for Beginners