...arid lands in the West, and the intelligent activity of our Department of Agriculture has done much to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. In Russia the black soil is rich but thirsty. Some of the water of the Volga might be used without...

...being. The engineer is in position between the earth, with its elements and its forces, and its people, to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before; to fill the barns of the farmer with plenty: to relieve in a measure the patient ox in his toil of...

...with the processes of manufacturing has placed some of our men in a field where they have been able "to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before". In the same field, they have materially extended and expanded the general fund of industrial knowledge...