Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1913 — SOME ESSENTIALS FOR A GOOD LAWN [ARTICLE]

SOME ESSENTIALS FOR A GOOD LAWN

Begin to Mow Grass as Soon as It Begins to Grow—Use Clippings as Mulch.

To have a good lawn, as the grass begins to grow mow it often. Abandon the notion that mowing grass will kill it; it will do nothing of the kind. Frequent mowing, two or three times a week, will keep down thick places and allow thin places togssert themselves. DO not rake the lawn clippings unless your lawn soil is exceedingly fertile. Save the extra work, and allow the clippings to lie on the ground for a mulch and fertilizer.

Lawn clippings are splendid green feed for poultry confined in pens, but when they are tak,en from the lawn an equivalent fertilizer should be returned —at some time. When the lawn mower gets dull do not take it to the shop to be sharpened, but adjust and tighten the bolts or tension at the bottom on either end of the bar, so that the revolvjng (Slades ring sharply against the bottom’ horizontal cutting blade. This .will-.make the mower sharpen itself in turning. Almost all lawn mowers are constructed for self sharpening. ’When the tension is tight it requires Just a little more forcer In pushing, but it cuts; It can’t help it —H. H. Shepard, Allendale, 111.