COUNTRY LIFE THE growing of the grass—Horace's signal of spring—this
year singularly vivid, seems to have re-aroused the controversy on how to deal with it—to silo it, to dry it or to hay it. On behalf of the farmer the silo, seems to be winning, and the critics have few words of praise for Bottom's ideal: "Good hay, sweet hay hath no fellow." The arguments do not much concern any except the farmers, but what to do with the grass that comes off our lawns is a more general problem. Because it is young and green it is full of nourishment. It has been proved to be an ideal food for pigs, in certain proportion. Poultry enjoy it both green and when dried. It makes In excellent mulch, especially for raspberries and small fruit, and may be so used to smother weeds. The treatment to be avoided is to leave it to heat in heaps, when it makes an ideal breeding for flies. I have seen-such heaps fairly wriggling with the fly grubs.
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