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Raking to sow grass. This is the best time to sow lawn grass seed, raking bare spots to open up earth before sowing
Raking to sow grass. This is the best time to sow lawn grass seed, raking bare spots to open up earth before sowing

Raking to sow grass. This is the best time to sow lawn grass seed, raking bare spots to open up earth before sowing

Date9/2/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Raking to sow grass. This is the best time to sow lawn grass seed, raking bare spots to open up earth before sowing.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0041663F
      Rake's progress: This is one of the rare times your lawn needs a raking
      Rake's progress: This is one of the rare times your lawn needs a raking
      Faught, Ken
      10/27/1988
      Gloria Kaye Pop singer. A farmer takes his sow to a neighbor's to be bred. He gets a guarantee by being told that if the sow, the next morning, is sitting in the [Incomplete]
      Gloria Kaye Pop singer. A farmer takes his sow to a neighbor's to be bred. He gets a guarantee by being told that if the sow, the next morning, is sitting in the [Incomplete]
      Kaye, Gloria
      6/2/1976
      Fertilizing the lawn is best started in early June, experts say, but most people - like Jan Evans, above - can't wait until then for the grass to turn(...)
      Fertilizing the lawn is best started in early June, experts say, but most people - like Jan Evans, above - can't wait until then for the grass to turn(...)
      Combs, Erin
      4/14/1978
      View from inside eleavotr shaft sows Goodwin near top of his climb
      View from inside eleavotr shaft sows Goodwin near top of his climb
      Griffin, Doug
      6/26/1986
      Pig Farmer Don Walsh makes friends with one of his prize sows on 12-acre farm in Pickering
      Pig Farmer Don Walsh makes friends with one of his prize sows on 12-acre farm in Pickering
      Lennon, Frank
      6/13/1973
      Illustrated image of a lion standing on a mountain top. Illustrated images of grass seed bags.
      Steele, Briggs Seed Clover, Timothy, grass seeds
      Steele, Briggs Seed Co.
      Approximately1930
      If you have good topsoil prepare your vegetable garden by turning with a spade and raking off stones
      If you have good topsoil prepare your vegetable garden by turning with a spade and raking off stones
      Geo, Mario
      5/17/1972
      Frenchmen Raking Oysters through the Ice at Shediac, New Brunswick
      Frenchmen Raking Oysters through the Ice at Shediac, New Brunswick
      Hind, William G. R., 1833-1889
      1870
      Day's sulky horse rake! ... the above rake is designed for hay raking and gleaning grain fields
      Day's sulky horse rake! ... the above rake is designed for hay raking and gleaning grain fields
      Expositor Print (Brantford, Ont.)
      1872
      Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly, almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four (...)
      Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly, almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four (...)
      Norris, Dave
      3/23/1974
      A cutting protest. Alderman Frank Faubert used his own lawn mower yesterday to protest Scarborough's policy of only cutting the grass along its boulev(...)
      A cutting protest. Alderman Frank Faubert used his own lawn mower yesterday to protest Scarborough's policy of only cutting the grass along its boulev(...)
      Faubert, Frank, 1931-1999
      6/3/1981
      Grass roots grows a 'Wacheea' at City Hall, Members of Grass Roots, the organization trying to set up a tent city for transient youth this summer, do (...)
      Grass roots grows a 'Wacheea' at City Hall, Members of Grass Roots, the organization trying to set up a tent city for transient youth this summer, do (...)
      Bull, Ron
      6/13/1971