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.
If you are burning a wood fire at home, you have access to your own source of free Potash. Because wood ash is created from by plant material, it contains many of the trace elements important to soil condition and healthy plant growth, including approximately 6% of organic Potash. Use your wood ash dry, as once it is wet, the nutrients are washed away. 2  Make sure you are only burning dry, untreated wood before using the wood ash. 3  Hardwoods yield more ash, and therefore a higher percentage of nutrients than soft woods.