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After the grass has become well established frequent 

 rolling and cutting with a lawn-mower will fit it for the 

 use of anything but heavy teams. Care must be taken 

 not to have it cut up by heavy teams during the fall and 

 spring. This is pleasant to walk upon and is as dry as 

 any walk except when there is rain or dew. upon it. The 

 surface of a walk should be a little above the level of 

 the lawn but not enough to cause water to gather upon 

 the inside of a curve on a hillside and cause washing. 

 Where well underdrained the surface should be flat but 

 upon undrained land a slightly rounded surface is 

 necessary. 



To Keep Down the Weeds. 



Upon a road or walk surfaced with ordinary unsifted 

 gravel there will be more or less weeds during the grow- 

 ing season unless it is frequently gone over with a weed- 

 killer or hoed over with a sharp hoe with a thin blade. 

 If the surface is dressed with three or four inches of fine 

 screened gravel or fine broken stone few weeds will start 

 except in very wet weather. 



Concrete Walks and Drives. 



When one can afford the expense, concrete walks, 

 either of cement or asphalt, will be found cheaper in the 

 end if properly laid, but if improperly made and upon an 

 undrained foundation, will be little or no better than 

 one of gravel. The first and most important point in 

 this work is the foundation. A durable walk or drive 

 cannot be made on any soil saturated with moisture in 

 freezing weather. Such soils must be underdrained with 

 either land or Akron tile, the latter being much better 

 where the soil is liable to freeze about it. A stone drain 

 is sometimes used, but the writer has never seen such a 

 drain that did not fill up within a few years. 



