 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1890 - 768 pages
...much of solids in the milk for seven cents as he got for eight cents before. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of mankind. We are now able to make a little more milk and a little more butter from each cow. The... | |
 | Medicine - 1890 - 880 pages
...colic of disappointment, for his prayer, like Rory O'Moore's dream, has gone by contraries. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, then the man who can make hay out of thistles, who can make a lawn out of the thicket,... | |
 | Columbus Horticultural Society, Columbus, Ohio - Gardening - 1893 - 174 pages
...must be fungi. Perhaps the coming race of man is forshadowed by this. It is an old saying that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his race, therefore is the man who makes a crop grow where it is impossible for even a single blade... | |
 | United States - 1910 - 1102 pages
...lighting system is only one of many inventions by Thomas A. Edison. Indeed, on the principle that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is entitled to public gratitude, Edison may be called the greatest material benefactor of his time. Founded... | |
 | James Cox - Indians of North America - 1895 - 420 pages
...million acres were quickly taken by 30,000 farmers. The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, would seem to proclaim that Oklahoma is peopled with philanthropists, for the sturdy... | |
 | Agriculture - 1910 - 1092 pages
...resides, and will become an object lesson to his neighbors to the extent that we lead, others follow. He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor. The CHAIRMAN: You have heard the report. What action will you take upon it? MIÎ.... | |
 | James Cox - Fiction - 1895 - 420 pages
...million acres were quickly taken by 30,000 farmers. The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, would seem to proclaim that Oklahoma is peopled with philanthropists, for the sturdy... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1896 - 826 pages
...possibilities of beneficence in its adaptability as nourishing food for man. It has been well said that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before " is a benefactor of the race ; it follows, then, that the revelation to the people of this country that tons upon tons... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - Gardening - 1896 - 1250 pages
...possibilities of beneficence in its adaptability as nourishing food for man. It has been well said that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before " is a benefactor of the race ; it follows, then, that the revelation to the people of this country thai tons upon tons... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - Agriculture - 1896 - 1076 pages
...possibilities of beneficence in its adaptability as nourishing food for man. It has been well said that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before " is a benefactor of the race ; it follows, then, that the revelation to the people of this country that tons upon tons... | |
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He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two. 
