| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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