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to be quite free from weed seeds. The two kinds of seed should be 

 purchased separately and mixed at home. The prepared lawn 

 mixtures upon the market are usually of very poor quality. They 

 should never be used unless known by test to be composed of pure 

 fresh seed. The home-mixed seed should be sown on the lawn in 

 the spring (April or May) and again in September following spraying, 

 and well raked into the bare spots left by the weeds. A satisfactory 

 seeding requires five pounds of this mixture for a lot 50 x 100 feet, 

 or one ounce per 100 square feet, at each application. If no spraying 

 is to be done the following season, it is often advisable to add four 

 ounces or more of white clover seed to each five pounds of the mixture. 

 White clover responds quickly and aids in forming a dense growth 

 over bare places where weed seeds may lodge and germinate. 



