...canals, and the reclamation of sterile lands. It is accounted a worthy and beneficent undertaking " to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before." In the census of 1860 the area of improved land in the United States is set down at 163,110;720 acres,...

...canals, and the reclamation of sterile lauds. It is accounted a worthy and beneficent undertaking " to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before." In' the census of 1860 the area of improved land in the United States is set dawn at 163,110,720 acres,...

...human race — truths, which not only have their bearing on the economy of everyday life, which tend to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but which must affect most profoundly both our mental and moral natures. Thus the sciences are to become...

...industrious, developing the resources of the neighbourhood in which they settled, and endeavouring to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. It would be a pleasant task, and the results valuable, to trace out the various occupations in which...

...cheese, in wool, or in fine stock, can scarcely promote these interests more effectually than by striving to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before; anil finally, that this desirable result may be in part, if not wholly, attained by better seeding,...

...be due to me in another month," he said, " I shall buy a territory and settle it. Not only do I hope to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but trust soon to have a thriving colony about me. I shall have work to give and good wages to pay...

...spiritual resources and wealth of humanity and thereby to man's comfort, happiness and well-being; to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before; to go down into the bowels of the earth and bring up material to build homes and to heat them; to harness...

...a plantation of it would soon begin to yield an interesting revenue. " Blessed is he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before !" How much more blessed is he who makes a forest of bois d'arc grow where not a sprig grew before ? The cedar, also...

...so early as not to have already learned what may enable them, on some spot or other in after life, " to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before.'' — I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, JAMES FW JOHNSTON. DURHAM, November...

...education of a farmer is that his labor may become more skilled and more profitable ; but to know how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is not all of the farmer's life. He has higher interests and higher responsibilities than those for...