| Charles Henry Morrill - 1918 - 250 páginas
...than one hundred thousand acres. To improve and develop new wild sections of the West, and to endeavor to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," was always an interesting and alluring work to me. The hardships of frontier life were tempered by... | |
| New York (State). Governor - 1919 - 952 páginas
...increased by many millions. Every dollar devoted by the State to agriculture is an investment, not a gift. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is plain business. The State of New York is bringing to agriculture all that the scientist has discovered... | |
| David Snedden - 1921 - 342 páginas
...sought to discover a new, or to improve an old, tool ; to add new knowledge to the social inheritance; to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before ; to heal the sick ; to reform the delinquent; to promote justice; or to educate the young. It can... | |
| Samuel Insull - 1924 - 496 páginas
...properties under my direction. I have spent my life in trying, so far as my business is concerned, to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. And when I se e an effort made, as in this state, to roll back the wheels of progress just to pander... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall - 1923 - 668 páginas
...out their pens to the highest bidder. It has been truly said that the farmer wishes to know how he is to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. Geology and Chemistry are ready to gratify that desire. The knowledge of these is indispensable to... | |
| John Irving Sowers - 1925 - 208 páginas
...alone, however, will never save an individual any more than it will save a nation. To teach the boy how to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a valuable contribution to the wealth of the country. But also to teach the boy at the same time... | |
| W. G. Tittsworth - 1927 - 248 páginas
...seen the corn shuck mule collared, chain harnessed, single donkeys ticklin' the yeller clay back home to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. He took the hint, planted seeds in the dry dirt, gave 'em a drink out of the spring branch, and yer... | |
| Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration - 1928 - 1352 páginas
...anyone requesting it. »More Twin Lambs Dropped When Ewes Are Well Fed. Xot only has science been able to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, but it is now able to induce ewes to drop a larger number of twin lambs. Extra feed at the breeding season... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1945 - 1234 páginas
...work to compound the magic medicine which restored it to health. If It is a noteworthy achievement to "make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," how great is the achievement of these men who have made thousands of tons of sugar grow where none... | |
| 1942 - 584 páginas
...unoccupied rich land was available. He must now learn, in Newton's words -though he quoted the phrase, "'to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. "" Consequently science, " [the^ w/iat and how to do . . . the concentrated experience of the ages,"... | |
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