LAWNS 



GROW A FARM CROP 



Now give it over to a crop of corn or po- 

 tatoes and for one season before the actual 

 lawn making begins treat it exactly as though 

 it were farm land. The reason for this is that 

 the regular cultivation given to either one of 

 these crops will be of the greatest benefit in 

 encouraging a good growth of the grass seed 

 when it is sown the following fall or spring. 

 Moreover, there will be a slight addition of 

 humus, and any latent weed seeds will have 

 germinated and the plantlets killed in the 

 process of cultivation. On lands deficient 

 in humus grow a crop of cowpeas and 

 plough under in the fall; then give a dressing 

 of lime. 



The following season, or in the fall of the 

 same year, another dressing of well rotted 

 fertiliser, followed by ploughing and harrow- 

 ing, will have brought the soil into proper con- 

 dition. Land that will not grow a good crop of 

 corn will never grow a good lawn. Attention 

 to the growing crop of corn or potatoes assures 

 cultivation of the land without the labour 

 being a dead loss. After the crop is har- 

 vested spread manure over the entire surface 



