...numbers of ignorant and lazy barbarians would die of hunger. It has been said, that he is truest patriot who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before ; if so, we may reckon our patriots by thousands. With this encouraging remark, I now take my leave....

...partners, the rod and Madam Gossip, that always furnish a liberal share of their help. If he is a producer who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, then surely he who fashions and polishes the immortal mind and starts it on an eternal journey of discovery...

...patriotism of the soldier ; but, sir, I trust the time is not far distant when men will see that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a greater patriot than he who lays waste whole districts, and tramples under foot the blessed gifts...

...the wealth, the health, and the happiness of hie fellow-men augmented. It is an old saying, that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves well <jf his country," and the truth of the proverb is not confined to the improved cultivation...

...the wealth, the health, and the happiness of his fellow-men augmented. It is an old saying, that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves well of his country," and the truth of the proverb is not Confined to the improved cultivation...

...to a great size in a short time. I need not say any more on this part of my subject. If the man is a benefactor to his country who makes two blades of...one grew before, what shall be said of the man who introduces to us a new food-fish ? Were we better acquainted with the natural history of fish, it would...

...who removes a link of that heavy chain that clogs trade is a greater benefactor to mankind than he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. But, alas ! there are no Peels in Spain ; no Adam Smiths ( Vives is always cited, but !) ; no Cobden...

...and others bitten off; yet a few days sun and rain would obliterate all traces of the evil. " If he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a public benefactor," said Deacon Herman when they had been over the field, " I don't know what...

...crop, when there is so precarious a market for what it yields already ? Who can style him a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, when the result of such a process must be to diminish the chances of remuneration to the laborer, and...

...Wuter- Farming. By WILLIAM PEAHD, MD, LL.B. Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas. 1868. IF that man be a benefactor to his country who makes two blades of...scientific agriculture of England, we are probably even now fax behind any other civilized community in two points which have an immeasurable effect on the supply...