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" To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is the secret of agricultural wealth. "
Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ... - Page 168
1888
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A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and ..., Volume 1

James Miller Guinn - California - 1915 - 498 pages
...city's exchequer, which was chronically in a state of collapse, would expand and become plethoric. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is the secret of agricultural wealth. The olden-time city fathers well knew that neither the one blade...
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Stone & Webster Public Service Journal, Volume 15

Electrical engineering - 1914 - 658 pages
...that have affected governmental development. The underlying effort if all industry and commerce is to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," or at least to see that "a new dollar is returned for the dollar that is expended." The political government...
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Stone & Webster Public Service Journal, Volume 15

Electrical engineering - 1914 - 658 pages
...that have affected governmental development. The underlying effort if all industry and commerce is to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," or at least to see that "a new dollar is returned for the dollar that is expended." The political government...
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Public Papers of Charles Seymour Whitman, Governor, 1915-1918, Volume 4

New York (State). Governor (1915-1918 : Whitman) - New York (State) - 1916 - 1070 pages
...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...
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Official Information, Issues 1-21

American Railway Association. Special Committee on National Defense - Railroads and state - 1917 - 104 pages
...country win, shortly after a state of war was declared. While farmers of the Northwest were setting out to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, the railroads prepared to do their bit by making one freight car do the work of two. The railroads are...
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The Morrills and Reminiscences

Charles Henry Morrill - Frontier and pioneer life - 1918 - 254 pages
...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...
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Public Papers of Governor

New York (State). Governor - 1919 - 952 pages
...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...
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Sociological Determination of Objectives in Education

David Snedden - Education - 1921 - 342 pages
...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...
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Life and Confessions of a Psychologist

Granville Stanley Hall - Psychologists - 1923 - 668 pages
...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...
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Public Utilities in Modern Life: Selected Speeches (1914-1923)

Samuel Insull - Public utilities - 1924 - 496 pages
...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...
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