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blanket and vegetable matter that will do the 
lawn good. Every few years I cover the lawn 
with barnyard manure, in the fall; let it lie 
there all winter and that which we rake off in 
the spring we put on the garden. This is a 
little trouble, but I want to say that I made 
more money creating my lawn than I ever did in 
taking a fat ox from the stall, or a bushel of 
potatoes from my cellar. 
“ A man will stand on the public road in front 
of my place, and give me more for my property 
on account of my lawn; but money is not the 
only thing in the world. The lawn makes the 
boys and girls want to stay on the farm. It is 
on our lawn that we spend our spare moments on 
Sundays, entertaining our friends, in the sum- 
mer; and there, beneath the shade of ‘ the old 
apple-tree,’ the smoke curls more beautifully 
from my chimney than from any other I ever 
saw.” 
So there is no reason why you should not have 
a good lawn, as well as a good garden, if you 
will supply what the grass roots want. And 
it is true that the lawn is a genuine asset. The 
man who is too busy to bother with making a 
lawn, or to sit on it with his family in spare 
moments, even though it takes a good deal of 
contriving to spare those moments, is the man 
