 | 1878
...be&sr.th its s'aude and eat the fruit thereof, your name will be spoken with praise. If he that causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is greater than he who conquers an empire, how much greater is he that leaves for his descendants a bountiful... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1878
...themselves about making improvements of the soil, forgetting the old adage, " that he who helps to make two blades of grass to grow, where but one grew before, is a public benefactor." Many of these gentlemen have funds invested iu United States bonds and other... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1878
...but to the world at large, for the reason (to use an ancient Chines? proverb) that "whoever causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor of and deserves the gratitude of mankind." RAILROADS. These civilizers of mankind have... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1870
...improvement." Mr. Holmes presented the following, on THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. It has been said, that " he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor ;" and he who will induce one person to cultivate a vegetable garden, who never... | |
 | Alban Jasper Conant - 1879 - 122 σελίδες
...venture, concerning them, a few conclusions. The conclusions may be valueless ; but if he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor, truly, he who contributes a new fact to the sum of human knowledge, should be considered... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1867
...the most important one to the State of Maine of any we raise, and the old adage, that "he who maketh two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor," perhaps holds as true as any that relates to agriculture. The first point in... | |
 | 1880
...manuring, and fertilizing, wet and dry, or long and short, seasons, all turn upon this. " He who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is a benefactor." This sentiment contains the key to success in all kinds of business. Increased production... | |
 | 1881 - 140 σελίδες
...found filled to its utmost capacity with AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND FARM MACHINERY. If he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor, what should the man or firm be called who, by inventive genius and skill, enables... | |
 | 1888
...-./•' •v' ENTIiA.NOE OF 8BADELAND : PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES OF •" SHADELAND." IF "he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, what may not be said in favor of the man who has been influential in doubling... | |
 | D. B. Cashman - 1882 - 256 σελίδες
...occupant of land cannot transfer that which he does not own, he can transfer the right of occupancy. He who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before has the absolute ownership of the second which came into existence through his effort, and the right... | |
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