| 1850 - 772 pages
...ago, it was scarcely thought a matter worthy the attention of a man of science and taste to attempt to make two blades of grass grow where, only one grew before, or by new methods of feeding, to make a bullock grow f;-om nn ordinary to an uncommon si<e. This was... | |
| Country life - 1852 - 608 pages
...monthly record of the progress of horticulture and its kindred pursuits It' it is a laudable ambition to ' make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before,' we shall hope for the encouragement and assistance and sympathy of all those who would see our vast... | |
| Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1853 - 482 pages
...enable the Wisconsin farmer to keep the best breeds of cattle. It behooves us, therefore, to endeavor to 'make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before,' and great will be our reward. THE DIFFERENT BREEDS OF NEAT CATTLE. THEIR- COMPARATIVE VALCE AND ADAPTATION'... | |
| Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1853 - 466 pages
...enable the Wisconsin farmer to keep the best breeds of cattle. It behooves us, therefore, to endeavor to 'make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before,' and great will be our reward. 208 THE DIFFERENT BREEDS OF NEAT CATTLE. THEIR COMPARATIVE VALUE AND... | |
| David Magie - Young men - 1853 - 390 pages
...but that ploughman might become a man of science, and understand the nature of soils, and learn how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. The individual, who, spade in hand, digs the canal and throws up the embankment for a railroad, ought... | |
| 1882 - 858 pages
...; but the necessity for importing foreign grain will never grow less till farmers themselves learn to 'make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before.' Better seasons we cannot command ; iad our only hope is that Meteorological Science nay in time enable... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1855 - 766 pages
...ago, it was scarcely thought a matter worthy I he attention of a man of science and taste to attempt to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, or by new methods of fecdinc, to make a bullock grow from an ordinary to an uncommon size. This was... | |
| Andrew Jackson Downing, George William Curtis - Architecture, Domestic - 1856 - 650 pages
...monthly record of the progress of horticulture and its kindred pursuits. If it is a laudable ambition to " make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," we shall hope for the encouragement, and assistance, and sympathy of all those who would see our vast... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1858 - 914 pages
...intellectual and moral character of the inhabitants of this slate ? If it is a meritorious service to make two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, how much more meritorious would it be, for the leading members of our legislature, with ample school... | |
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