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Vhc RURAL NEW-WORKER 
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Making a Lawn 
I wish to establish a permanent lawn 
around my new house. The eoil. origin¬ 
ally a good sandy or gravelly loam, was 
used as a garden for some years, but in 
making excavation for cellar and digging 
out to lay sewer, gas and water pipes for 
city water, the clay was spread out over 
a considerable portion of the proposed 
lawn space. The soil is not very weedy, 
but from being run over and driven over 
so much during the building operations, is 
quite hard. The clay, when worked in, 
turns up in quite a friable condition, due 
to some sand mixed through it. I have 
noticed that Sweet clover seems to thrive 
on railroad banks and in railroad yards. 
I have in mind a yard around an aban¬ 
doned blast furnace where the Sweet 
clover self-seeded and grew up between 
the old ties and rails as high as one’s 
head, and very rank. Would you lime, 
plow and seed to sweet clover to get the 
soil in a friable condition for Fall seed¬ 
ing to lawn grass? It does not appear 
practicable to plant this front yard space 
to a hoed crop, which would no doubt be 
the best way to get in condition. Or is 
there any temporary crop I could use 
with ben fit and wait for Fall seeding? 
Something that would present a fairly 
good appearance in front of my new 
house, fronting a very nice paved and 
shaded street? W. J. A. 
Washington, N. J. 
If this proposition was mine I do not 
think I would wait until Fall to make 
this lawn, if it were at all possible to do 
the work this Spring. I would get a good 
plowman to break up the area to be seed¬ 
ed to grass and grade it, and seed it as 
soon as it can be done, as to wait until 
Fall is practically losing a year. As the 
lawn surrounding the house is a perma¬ 
nent feature, the work should be careful¬ 
ly and well done. Mistakes made at the 
time of the making will be permanent un¬ 
less the work is done over. This is ex¬ 
pensive and is seldom done unless one has 
plenty of money and expense is of no 
consequence; therefore it pays to do the 
work well, and it must be so done, if the 
lawn is ever satisfactory. The lawn is 
very important, and nothing should be 
omitted or neglected that will go toward 
making it as beautiful as possible. In 
preparing for seeding, the ground should 
first be plowed, then graded, giving enough 
decline from the house to drain the water 
off readily. After the grading is com¬ 
pleted. about one inch of old, well-rotted 
stable manure should be spread evenly 
over the surface, and worked into the soil 
with a disk harrow or one-horse cultiva¬ 
tor, after which it should be raked over 
with a steel rake and made smooth and 
even. Now run over the ground two 
ways with a hand roller of 400 or 500 lbs. 
weight. This rolling will reveal all high 
and low places, which must be leveled 
and smoothed, and the ground rolled 
again. If any hollows or bumps appear 
after this second rolling, they must be 
remedied by raking down the high places 
and filling in the low places. Now roll 
again, which will be the final going over 
before seeding. Before seeding is done 
the surface should be gone over with the 
steel rake and lightly stirred to make a 
good seed-bed. Use only the best seed to 
be had; any of the best New York seed 
houses can supply a satisfactory mixture. 
Sow seed evenly at the rate of 100 lbs. to 
the acre. After seed is sown, rake lightly 
with steel or wooden rake, and roll both 
ways. A lawn made in this manner will 
always remain smooth and even, and al¬ 
ways be beautiful to look at. if properly 
kept in order by timely cutting, etc. I 
hardly think Sweet clover would answer 
for a temporary lawn as it is a rampant, 
coarse grower, and would give your yard 
more the appearance of a farm field than 
a lawn. For temporary use. the Italian 
rye grass is very satisfactory; it is a 
quick, strong grower, and soon covers the 
ground with a heavy growth of beautiful 
green. It usually dies out after the first 
year’s growth. K. 
Destroying Ants 
Will you inform me how to get rid of 
ants? In my garden there has been a 
populous ant hill. Last year I dug into it 
and the ants scattered. Some of them in¬ 
vaded the house. Their ant hill reap¬ 
peared. It is as much as (*» in. high and 2 
to 3 ft. across. Do ants injure a garden? 
W. II. M. 
This question comes up every year. 
Where you can find the ant “hill" the best 
remedy is to punch a hole with a crowbar 
about two feet deep down into the center 
of the hill. Then pour in about half a 
pint of bisulphide of carbon and cover 
with a blanket or sack. The fumes of the 
chemical work out through the hill and 
kill the ants. 
Who Shall Find the Limit 
of Hudson Endurance? 
We Have Tried By Most Gruelling Tests — 
60,000 Hudson Owners Continue the Search 
There must be some point at which a piece of machinery is taxed beyond 
its power of endurance. 
But that point has not yet been found in the Hudson Super-Six. 
Why We Tried the Speedway 
It was in search of that point, rather than 
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