| Illinois Farmers' Institute - 1903 - 434 pages
...an nation, it is equally true that soil fertility is the absolute support of American agriculture. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, then he who reduces the fertility of the soil so that but one ear of corn grows... | |
| 1911 - 310 pages
...history has a "Jewish heresy" done a rich and blessed work. The philanthropist is said to be the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. Shall we not fitly style the leader of your Society a philanthropist, the lover and the servant of... | |
| Whitelaw Reid - 1904 - 258 pages
...activity than just this same of curing the spirits of men? If that man is a benefactor to his race who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, how much more is he who is the cup of blessing to a soul in some great agony, who begets the smiles... | |
| Illinois Farmers' Institute - 1905 - 594 pages
...need not be reduced; Illinois land ought never to be reduced below its original productive capacity." "If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, then he who reduces the fertility of the soil so that but «ar of corn grows where... | |
| Kansas State Horticultural Society - 1906 - 408 pages
...the remark which Swift puts into the mouth of the king of the Brobdignags, to the effect that whoever makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor of mankind. If that principle be declared laudable, then what, in justice, should be said... | |
| 1909 - 298 pages
...that has been done in this connection would have been justified many fold. (707) Hopkins7 well says : "If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, then he who reduces the fertility of the soil so that but one ear of corn grows... | |
| 1909 - 508 pages
...considered with reference to that most precious constituent of the soil — phosphorus. Hopkins" well says: "If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, then he who reduces the fertility of the soil so that but one ear of corn grows... | |
| Illinois Farmers' Institute - 1909 - 370 pages
...need not be reduced. Illinois land ought never to be reduced below its original productive capacity. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, then he who reduces the fertility of the soil so that but one ear of corn grows... | |
| American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1910 - 246 pages
...that has been done in this connection would have been justified many fold. (707) Hopkins7 well says : "If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, then he who reduces the fertility of the soil so that but one ear of corn grows... | |
| Sir William Earnshaw Cooper - 1911 - 416 pages
...this, and think you it is full recompense for your co-operation with angels ? LINKING UP THE Two WORLDS He who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a pater patriots ; and he or she who, with no thought of SELF, does aught in this world to help the... | |
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