Chewings Fescue, Kentucky Bluegrass and one of 
the Bents are usually recommended. 
If you want to add clover, buy White Clover seed 
separately and sow it separately over the lawn area 
at the rate of one ounce to each pound of grass seed. 
The lawn builder now has the entire area of the 
proposed lawn bare of any vegetation, well loosened 
up and with atop four inches of good soil pulverized 
so that both air and water can permeate it. 
But don’t think for a minute that it is ready for 
seeding. Grading comes first—a process which is 
often neglected, resulting in a poor lawn. 
By grading we mean creating a smooth even sur- 
face. This can be level or sloping, according to the 
lay of the land, but it should not be marred by humps 
or hollows where young seedling grass may burn 
out in the one case or drown in the other. If the area 
is large, it will pay to have the job done by a contrac- 
tor with adequate power tools. 
In a small lawn, grading can be done satisfactorily 
with hand tools by shoveling or raking soil from the 
high spots into the depressions. The filled areas will 
have to be trodden and tamped down to make them 
as firm as the surrounding surfaces. After that, the 
whole area is raked over as many times as may be 
necessary to give a smooth, even surface. 
In grading a lawn, a line level is an invaluable help. 
It is hung on a line stretched taut across the area in 
any given direction. The lawn maker can then readily 
detect deviations from the level and correct them with 
his shovel and rake. 
Soil, ‘pe : moss and fertilizer. are mixed together and 
“screened for the surface dressing ‘which will form the 
seed bed. 
