75 RE-SOILING 
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 
supplied with the food it needs. Thisis 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 two 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 
