“Safety-First” Purest Lawn f Grass Seed 
It is safest and cheapest to buy the very purest and best White Clover and Blue Grass 
seed for your lawn, because you avoid seeding 1 your lawn with the noxious weeds found In 
cheap grass seeds, and get so much higher germination that a pound of the best will cover 
as much as two pounds of the cheap, chaffy, low germinating seed. 
Any of these commercial fertilizers are good: Vigoro, Sacco, Bartco, Loma. Use 3 or 4 
pounds to 100 square feet. Your local seed or feed store can supply, or get, these fertilizers. 
EVERBEARING 
STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS 
Bate last fall my son Everett dug an 
average strawberry plant from our field 
and photographed it as shown above, with 
excess leaves pinched off, ready to plant. 
Note the many fibrous roots. If any 
more, the plant would look like a typical 
Russian beard. 
I have drawn a mark suggesting about 
where to cut off the tips of the roots before 
planting. 
Por description and prices of true ETEB- 
BEAB1N0 PLANTS, see page 49. 
Purest White Clover 
Clean seed, of bright golden color and strong 
vitality, “rarin’ to go." Sure fine. Lb. 76c; 
2 lbs. $1.40; 3 lbs. $2.10, prepaid, any zone. 
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 
Zone Zone Zone Zone Zone Zone 
5 lbs.$3.20 $3.25 $3.35 $3.45 $3.55 $3.65 
10 lbs. 6.10 6.20 6.40 6.60 6.80 7.00 
Best Kentucky Blue Grass 
Very heavy and clean. Lb. 65c; 2 lbs. $1.00; 
3 lbs. $1.40, prepaid, any zone. 
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 
Zone Zone Zone Zone Zone Zone 
5 lbs.$2.10 $2.15 $2.25 $2.35 $2.45 $2.55 
10 lbs. 4.00 4.10 4.30 4.50 4.70 4.90 
Safety-First Mixed Seed 
About one part white clover to three parts 
best blue grass. Lb. 70c; 2 lbs. $1.35; 3 lbs. 
$1.95, prepaid, any zone.. 
2nd 3rd 4th 5 th 6th 7th 
Zone Zone Zone Zone Zone Zone 
5 lbs.$2.50 $2.55 $2.65 $2.75 $2.85 $2.95 
10 lbs. 4.80 4.90 5.10 5.30 5.50 5.70 
Astoria Creeping Bent 
For making new lawns or renewing old. 
There are half a dozen or more varieties of 
Bent grasses. Astoria heads the list. Astoria 
starts quickly and goes farther. It creeps on 
top and under the ground. Seed very fine. Use 
pound for 300 to 500 square feet. Astoria Bent 
in sealed bags: % lb. 70c; lb. $1.35; 2 lbs. for 
$2.50; 3 lbs. for $3.60; 5 lbs. for $5.50, prepaid. 
(Bent does not thrive in all soils. Kentucky 
Blue Grass is more dependable.) 
Shady Nook Lawn Grass 
Special mixture for shady places. Lb. 60c; 
2 lbs. $1.15; 3 lbs. $1.65; 5 lbs. $2.50, prepaid. 
For the Lawn’s Sake 
Lawns may be started or old ones renewed or renovated any 
time from earliest spring to October. 
New lawns should be thoroughly worked, leveled and allowed 
to settle, then leveled again. The more care before sowing the 
seed the better the results. Seed will wash to the low spots 
and make your lawn spotted. Sow about one part clover to 
three parts blue grass. Use not less than pound to 200 square 
feet. 
Sow part the seed one way and then some more crosswise, 
so as to avoid streaks. Rake well before and after sowing. 
Water gently so often that soil never dries out until lawn Is 
green. Clover comes quickly. Blue grass comes slowly but 
hangs on like grim death after gets a foothold. Clover draws 
nitrogen from the air and enriches the ground for itself and 
the blue grass. 
Old lawns should be re-seeded and fertilized from time to 
time. Use only the purest seed. Never be afraid of sowing 
too much seed, nor too often. Dandelion and other weed 
seeds are blown or carried on to the lawn. Give the lawn a 
break by sowing good pure grass seed several times a season 
to compete with dandelion seed. 
Mastodon Strawberries still lead. After fill¬ 
ing page 49 plumb full, it occurred to me that 
I almost crowded Mastodons off the page. I 
kinda took it for granted that everyone knows 
Mastodon is still the King of Everbearers. 
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