Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 (1905) (14592003089)

Identifier: annualreportoffr1904frui (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Fruit-culture Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries



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ve a ^ood grassy carpet ea^rly nextspring Keeping a Lawn. To keep a lawn in prime velvety condition it shouldbe mowed frequently, pa^^ticularly during the season of rapid growth. Themowings should be so frequent that none of the grass should have to beraked off. This is the practice followed on well-kept city lawns where men,money, and mowers, are available. On the farm, where these articles arenot so plentiful, and where the area to be gone over is usually greater, itmay be kept in very respectable condition with the ordinary farm mower,the cutter bar of which should be set low and the knives kept sharp. Onthe farm the front yard and back yard, the lanes and the roadsides shouldbe levelled, seeded, and put in such condition that they can all be goneover with the farm mow^er, and if the mowing is done as often as the grassis high enough for the knives to cut nicely, the improvement made in theappearance of a place would in many cases add nearly 50 per cent to thevalue of the property.
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Fig. 8. The ruiple Fringe in shrubbery clump. To maintain a luxuriant growth and a rich dark green in the color ofthe grass, the lawn should occasiona^lly receive a top dressing of sta^blemanure in the fall. The soluble portion of this is washed into, the groundby the fall and spring rains, and early in the spring the coarsest portion ofthe manure should be raked off. We are often asked how to get rid of dandelions in a lawn. For mypart I like to see them when they are in full bloom, although of course,they make the lawn look ragged when they go to seed. It is because theyare so common that we dislike them. If they grew only in South Africawe would soon import them. There is no more effective way of keepinjcrdandelions in subjection on the lawn than by keeping the ground rich andencouraging a luxuriant growth of grass. If the ground is rich enougihthe grass will smother out most kinds of weeds. What cannot be smotheredmust, of course, be spudded. 1904 FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 101 Eve