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dry weather or very hot will burn it sere and 

 brown. Mow often, even as often as every 

 fourth or fifth day if necessary to keep at this 

 height, especially on a new lawn; and never 

 rake away the clippings. They form the best 

 possible mulch and fertilizer, and are so short 

 when mowing is done as often and as regularly 

 as it should be that they sift down among the 

 standing grass immediately and are lost to sight. 

 Reseed all bare spots every spring and take out 

 weeds as fast as they appear, peppering with 

 seed the space which is thus left bare, what- 

 ever the season. This is the sort of care and 

 watchfulness that achieves perfection with the 

 minimum of labor, promptness being its chief 

 feature. 



