| 1911 - 826 pages
...statistical analysis of its home-building and growth is one of wonder and admiration. It is said, that "to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is real philanthropy," and it is in the happy attainment of this that Los Angeles stands head and shoulders... | |
| 1908 - 830 pages
...equipped billiard hall of the Seattle Commercial Club. with the least expenditure of human effort. To make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before means a better return for all the good things of life for those who toil; to bring sunshine and flowers... | |
| Arkansas Education Association - 1911 - 332 pages
...response from the soil with a minimum amount of expense and effort; the farmers are being taught not only to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but to protect the health of the animals and trees, and by scientific breeding, grafting and pollination... | |
| William J. Northen - 1912 - 786 pages
...in very modest fashion, that he has raised and educated a family of eight children, and has "sought to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before." It must be said that his modest claim is more than verified by the record ; for he has grown many blades... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1912 - 164 pages
...evening school for the purpose of giving them more of the science of agriculture that will enable them to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Following that, the sections from the second to the tenth, inclusive, take up specific appropriations... | |
| West Virginia University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1912 - 932 pages
...orchards that can be compared only to a hawthorn thicket or a brushy hedge. STARVATION. The ambition to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is laudable, but to expect apples to grow in neglected thickets of Spanish needles, Beggars' Lice,... | |
| Robert Sidney Douglass - 1912 - 798 pages
...of many happy social gatherings. ARTHUR 0. CONRAD. If, as the sage says, it is worthy of immortality to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, surely the man who makes two bushels of wheat grow where but one was harvested before is to be ranked... | |
| 1913 - 226 pages
...in producing diseased as well as normal offspring, so it is with man. And so while we are learning how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, we are also learning that once the variety which does this is produced, it cannot alter itself, provided... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1913 - 516 pages
...evening school for the purpose of giving them more of the science of agriculture that will enable them to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Following that, the sections from the second to the tenth, inclusive, take up specific appropriations... | |
| Australia. Parliament - 1913 - 1250 pages
...it is a wise policy to distribute money unnecessarily in this practically unproductive way. Will it make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before? It seems to me that honorable members opposite are absolutely incompetent, or incapable, of dealing with... | |
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