Show Know Inow Your Soil Important in Planning for Lawns of Homes With those first balmy breeze breezes of ot spring due soon a perennial fever will touch mast most art erf again Its It's lawn fever and the symptom is frenzied activity out of doors But much of this efforts effort Is s Wasted since we quell the fever with bodily exercise Instead of straight thinking You can have a beautiful Kentucky Ken Ken- I tucky bluegrass lawn without an aching back If you start right away Here Is step one and you can accomplish It before the fever strikes KNOW YOUR SOIL Simple Yes but how many times have you had your soil analyzed State agricultural experimental ex ex- experimental stations say more than half the nations nation's homeowners have never heard of the practice and land most of the rest think its an expensive process used only by parks and golf courses Its Iti not Its It's the wisest couple of dollars dollars dol dol- lars you ever spent Most of the state experimental stations or state agricultural colleges colleges col col- col leges will do it for you as will thousands of nurs nurseries rles se seed d corn com om panIcs and research organizations Most hardware stores carry inexpensive in expensive do it yourself kits There Is nothing to digging up upa a few ounces of soil but be sure to go down six to eight inches That's where your Kentucky bluegrass roots will grow and that's where you get the true picture Of course you may need i ItO to take more than one sample If It you have a large yard but you should take the extra samples from places where you are having trouble getting a good stand of bluegrass When you get the chemical 1 analysis an of your lawn Its time to think Instead of act Look Lock at your lawn la Kentucky bluegrass grows through most of ot the win win- ter Bare Dare spots a and weed patches t hes mean trouble and If It Its It's s all bare or all weeds you'll want to prepare pre pare a seed bed and do some heavy fertilizing If It you have bluegrass blue blue- grass you probably have only a afew afew afew few acres where you need plan to concentrate your efforts seeding seed seed- Ing ng the trouble spots and feed feed- Ing ng the whole lawn generously Remember the final goal of most Is a Kentucky bluegrass lawn and bluegrass thrives on a high nitrogen plant food But if you wait too long the weeds that come in the spring will thrive on that same er or to the disadvantage of blue grass |