 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 740 pages
...all-absorbing topic, bringing upon the ground " sports " whose aim is not to encourage agriculture; not to make two spears of grass grow where but one grew before; not to obey the. Divine injunction to "till the earth," and by a good example make lalior honorable,... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1860 - 352 pages
...stretches the wire of the telegraph and teaches us to talk with the lightning. It enables the farmer to make two spears of grass grow where but one grew before. Conclusion. It puts a better plow in his ground, better implements in all his labors, and thereby saves... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1869 - 764 pages
...sheep. i with a view to the consequent improvement of the land (it would hardly grow a good crop of beans then), than to make the ready dollar. In this...of hay per acre, now yield on an average over two. Raising rye was then out of the question ; last year I got from about sixteen acres, four hundred bushels... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1869 - 764 pages
...was more with a view to the consequent improvement of the land (it would hardly grow a good crop of beans then), than to make the ready dollar. In this...fully succeeded. I wanted to make two spears of grass growwhere but one grew before, and I am sure I am getting three, some of my neighbors say four ; however,... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1869 - 802 pages
...was more with a view to the consequent improvement of the land (it would hardly grow a good crop of beans then), than to make the ready dollar. In this I have fully succeeded. I wanted to make twot spears of grass grow where but one grew before, and I am sure I am getting three, some of my neighbors... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1870 - 544 pages
...ago, it was more with a view to the consequent improvement of the land (it would hardly grow a crop of beans then), than to make the ready dollar. In this I have fullv succeeded. I wanted to make two spears of grass grow where but one grew before, and I am sure... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1873 - 398 pages
...stretches the wire of the telegraph and teaches us to talk with the lightning. It enables the farmer to make two spears of grass grow where but one grew before. POPULAR EDUCATION. 263 Conclusion. It puts a better plow in his ground, better implements in all his... | |
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... beans then), than to make the ready dollar. In this I have fully succeeded. I wanted to make two spears of grass grow where but one grew before, and I am sure I am getting three, some of my neighbors say four ; however, I call it three. The meadows... 