Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1917 — PERFECT LAWN NEEDS WORK [ARTICLE]

PERFECT LAWN NEEDS WORK

One Who Expects to Get the Best Results Must Expect to Expend Much but Not Difficult Labor. To have a perfect lawn requires much but not difficult labor. As a rule the land conditions to be met may be divided into two classes: First, where there is a sufficient depth of good loam, but where the grass has gradually been allow’ed to die out, and, second, where the lawnmaker has a poor gravelly soil, seemingly without greensward possibilities of any kind quite regardless of what may be done to it. The treatment in the first case cited is sufficiently simple, It will not even be necessary to spade up the ground and re-seed, for just as good results are produced by a simpler method and in much shorter time. Take a sharp iron rake with good sharp teeth, and, after digging out the weeds, scratch deep into the soil, breaking it up as finely as possible. After doing this sow the best grass seed obtainable, using a grass seeder, of which, there are several kinds on the market. The wheelbarrow seeder where the space to be seeded is a new lawn, for example, will prove a labor-saver. Where the space to be re-seeded is small, a broadcast seed sower will do excellent work; it is carried by a strap about the shoulder, and will sow not only grass, but all kinds of grain.