 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1909 - 784 pages
...per cent of the federal revenues were expended for the benefit of agriculture. Some one has said : " The well-being of a people is like a tree, — agriculture is its root, manufacture and commerce are its branches and leaves; if the root is injured the leaves fall, the branches... | |
 | 1923 - 966 pages
...33 57 88 50 39 90* 17 31 40 34 59 44 Canada's Rural Problem By WC GOOD, MP House of Commons, Ottawa "The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture is its root, manufacture and commerce are its branches and its life; if the root is injured the leaves fall, the... | |
 | Jules Méline - 1907 - 282 pages
...— a thought which should be inscribed upon the walls of our schools in letters of gold — 239 " The well-being of a people is like a tree : agriculture is its root, manufacture and commerce are its branches and its leaves ; if the root is] injured, the leaves fall,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1909 - 964 pages
...per cent of the federal revenues were expended for the l>encfit of agriculture. Some one has said : " The well-being of a people is like a tree, — agriculture is its root, manufacture and commerce are its branches and leaves; if the root is injured the leaves fall, the branches... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States. Department of Superintendence - 1910 - 796 pages
...agricultural resources of the country. A Chinese philosopher centuries ago uttered a profound truth: The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture...manufactures and commerce are its branches, and its life; if the root is injured the leaver fall, the branches break away and the tree dies. Garfield said: At... | |
 | Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett - 1910 - 306 pages
...remarkable book is "merely an expansion of a profound thought uttered long ago by a Chinese philosopher: 'The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture is its root, manufacture and commerce are its branches and its life; if the root is injured the leaves fall, the... | |
 | 1911 - 824 pages
...the rights of his class as the laboring man is for his. There is a Chinese proverb to the effect that the wellbeing of a people is like a tree. Agriculture is its root, manufacture and commerce its branches and life. If the root is injured; the leaves fall, the branches... | |
 | American Library Association. Conference - 1911 - 930 pages
...well-educated minds, and we each should contribute our share to this end. A Chinese philosopher has said, "The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture is its root, manufacturing and commerce are its branches and its life; if the root is injured, the leaves fall,... | |
 | 1911 - 144 pages
...Circulation OF rm_. Copyrisht 1911, by The New York Farmers F JOHN WARD A SON NEW YORK JAN 25 1916 "The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture is its root, manufacture and commerce are its branches and its life ; if the root is injured the leaves fall, the... | |
 | Orlando Schairer Reimold - 1911 - 220 pages
...people prosper. That Chinese philosopher fully comprehended the importance of agriculture who said, " The well-being of a people is like a tree. Agriculture is its root; manufacture and commerce are its branches and its life; if the root is injured, the leaves fall, the... | |
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The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture is its root, manufacturing and commerce are its branches and its life; if the root is injured, the leaves fall, the branches break away and the tree dies. 
