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up as if it were a sponge, and the crops planted 

 on soil treated with this preparation do re- 

 markably well. It was so very expensive at 

 first as to be almost prohibitive except for very 

 valuable crops, but the price is now such that 

 many a man can afford to use it, especially if 

 he cannot afford the time or space to grow his 

 own green manure. 



Nothing looks nicer about a house than a green 

 lawn, with smooth-cropped, velvety surface, but 

 nothing is harder to maintain after a few years 

 of cropping. This is because a well-kept lawn 

 is carefully raked after each clipping, and is kept • 

 free from falling leaves or other vegetable waste 

 matter. It must be admitted that the general 

 effect is better, particularly when the lawn 

 stretches from the front of the house to the 

 roadside. But the lawn is, nevertheless, being 

 starved, and though watered every day it cannot 

 keep up its velvety surface indefinitely, unless 

 supphed with the food it needs. This is Nature's 

 own secret for replenishing the earth with good 

 crops, and all you need do is to observe what is 

 going on around you, to find daily proof of it. 



To quote Mr. Seeds again : " Every t~Wo years, 

 we ought to sow clean blue grass or lawn grass 

 seed over the lawn, I prefer to mow often and 

 leave the clippings on the lawn. It is the 



