More immigrantsâ11.7 millionâcame to the United States between 1871 and 1901 than had arrived in the United States and the British North American colonies during the preceding three centuries combined. (The U.S. population was 76.2 million in 1900.) Between 1900 and 1914, 12.9 million new immigrants arrived. These turn-of-the-century immigrants came primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe, and were largely Italians, Jews, and Poles.
A burned or scorched lawn is grass that has become brown or withered, but it can be treated. 1  Consistently water your lawn. Sounds simple enough but most often, a lawn goes bad due to simple missteps such as not watering your lawn. 2  Don't overuse fertilizer of pesticides.
Burning your lawn with fire is a practice some sometimes used by rural homeowners in the late winter and early spring. Reasons (advantages) for burning your lawn would include 1) removing dormant/dead leaf tissue, 2) reduction in thatch, 3) possible reduction in pest populations, and 4) enhanced spring green-up.sing fire to burn dormant turf is a means of eliminating dead leaf blades on bermudagrass and zoysiagrass swards. This practice was historically used on some turf areas including golf courses, but now it is seldom used on golf courses except for native areas (taller mown wildflower areas).