Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1911 — Noiseless Lawn Mowers. [ARTICLE]

Noiseless Lawn Mowers.

“My noiseless lawn mowers,” proudly remarked a suburbanite to a visitor, pointing to a cage full of guinea pigs. "When I get a few more Pm

going to hire them out to the golf club to keep the green clipped. "I put a low barrier of wire netting around the lawn that I want cut and then turn in the .guinea pigs. They attack the worst weeds first—plantains, dandelions, etc. —because they like them the best. Then they take a little rest and tackle the grass. In a short time the lawn looks as though It had been cut by the closest ma* chine. I’m sure that a golf green dipped In this way would be as fast again as it would be mowed In the of dfiiary way."