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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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The Boy and His Vocation

John Irving Sowers - Boys - 1925 - 208 pages
...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...
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The Economics of Land Reclamation in the United States

Ray Palmer Teele - Reclamation of land - 1927 - 366 pages
...expression in the popular phrases "Make the desert blossom as the rose," "Make every idle acre work," and "Make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." The economist asks whether we need the products of the acre now idle, whether we can afford the blossoms,...
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Outskirt Episodes ...

W. G. Tittsworth - African American cowboys - 1927 - 248 pages
...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...
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Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture and Immigration of Virginia

Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration - Agriculture - 1928 - 1352 pages
...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...
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Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - Agriculture - 1945 - 1234 pages
...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...
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Agricultural History Series, Issue 2

Agriculture - 1942 - 584 pages
...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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The Menorah Journal, Volume 4

Jews - 1918 - 474 pages
...agents traveling all over the country, nor costly branches in numerous cities. This again enabled us to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," for two Olivers can now be bought for the former price of one. Typewriter users have appreciated this...
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Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the ...

Richard H. Pells - History - 1973 - 452 pages
...from childhood that it is a sort of moral obligation for each of us to rise, to get up in the world," to "make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," to avoid poverty and accumulate money as an "outward sign of inner merit," Americans were now learning...
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Think and Grow Rich with Foreword by Lewis Schiff

Napoleon Hill - Business & Economics - 2005 - 192 pages
...cactus to shed its thorns and become an edible food. Give me access to the knowledge which enabled you to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. "Napoleon, I desire to acquire from you, by emulation, the marvelous ability you possessed to inspire...
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The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader

William Sanders Scarborough - History - 2006 - 557 pages
...encouragement given to labor. This of itself is a work not to be under- rated. If the man who shows how to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor, much more ought one to be called such who shows how to make any vocation command increased...
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