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effects of winter heaving are likely to be very 

 marked; and if the lawn is laid in the spring 

 and it is not abundantly watered all through 

 the summer, it is certain that the drying out 

 will result in gaping channels all over the 

 surface. As a rule it will take two or three 

 years before a laid lawn will assume the 

 absolute uniformity of colour and texture 

 that comes from thick seeding, and which 

 is the ideal. 



Sods are generally cut for convenience's 

 sake three feet long and one foot wide, and in 

 quantity can usually be bought at twenty cents 

 a turf. I know of one man who has developed 

 the regular business of growing sods for sale. 

 His trade is in a city that is famous for its 

 well kept gardens. He uses only the highest 

 grade lawn mixture for raising of his crop 

 which is given careful attention from first 

 to last and he gets ten cents per square foot, 

 thus realizing a profit of between five and 

 six hundred dollars to the acre every three 

 years. No turfs are cut and sold under that 

 age. This is necessary, in fact, because the 

 Kentucky blue grass will not have made a 

 proper growrth before this time. Turf raised 

 thus, and sold locally, would make a better 



