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" The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race. "
History of Grand Rapids and Its Industries - Page 530
by Dwight Goss - 1906 - 1313 pages
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 38, Part 1890

Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1891 - 802 pages
...the Agricultural College comes under Dean Swift's definition of a public benefactor: "He who maketh two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is himself a public benefactor." As we walked over this portion of the farm, and noted the system of underdraining...
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The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 23

Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1891 - 846 pages
...experiments, the farmers of our times will continue to be the rulers. It is said that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor; then our farmers are indeed public benefactors, for they strive each year to not...
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Railway Rates and Government Control: Economic Questions Surrounding These ...

Marshall Monroe Kirkman - Railroads - 1892 - 366 pages
...be built as afford reasonable proof of profitable employment. It is an industrial axiom that a man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor. It should be equally an axiom in our day that the construction of two railways...
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Railway Rates and Government Control: Economic Questions Surrounding These ...

Marshall Monroe Kirkman - Railroads - 1892 - 368 pages
...be built as afford reasonable proof of profitable employment. It is an industrial axiom that a man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor. It should be equally an axiom in our day that the construction of two railways...
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The Pecan, and how to Grow it: Where They Grow Wild, where They are Being ...

Nuts - 1893 - 108 pages
...attainable in this line. Bearing in mind the accepted truth of a noted writer who said, " He who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor." We plant only the very choicest nuts; and when grafting or budding use scions...
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The Story of the City Hall Commission: Including the Exercises at the Laying ...

Prentiss Webster - City halls - 1894 - 252 pages
...industries increased and multiplied, and the town soon took on the habiliments of a city. The axiom that " He who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor " is ever true, and those who found new industrial enterprises, who increase and...
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The Science of Railways ...: With Illustrations of the Inception ..., Volume 8

Marshall Monroe Kirkman - Railroads - 1894 - 454 pages
...be built as afford reasonable proof of profitable employment. It is an industrial axiom that a man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor. It should be equally an axiom in our day that the construction of two railways...
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A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation: Including the Law of Water-rights and ...

Clesson Selwyne Kinney - Irrigation - 1894 - 854 pages
...with joy if only the judicial decree could be supplemented with a little more moisture. The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race. How then shall we rank him who, by judicial...
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The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 27

Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1895 - 384 pages
...other, I cannot now recall, this homely agricultural proverb got fastened upon my youthful imagination : "He who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a beuefactor of his race " A ad then 1 pondered: "Well, I don't suppose I can ever be a George Washington,...
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Irrigation in Utah

Utah Irrigation Commission - Irrigation - 1895 - 154 pages
...with joy if only the judicial decree could be supplemented with a little more moisture. The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race. How then, shall we rank him, who, by judicial...
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