Gibson City stands up out of the Ford County prairie behind its grain elevators, rail lines meeting in the middle of town and corn running to the horizon in every direction. Under that wide sky Benjamin Lawn Care & Landscaping Inc keeps the lawns mowed, trimmed and edged from the first green of spring into the long heat of July. Out here a yard is the one piece of ground a person shapes by hand, and a clean edge along a front walk reads from clear down the block. The mower goes in matched rows, the trimmer follows the foundation and the fence, and the drive gets cleared before the truck moves on. The mowing carries from the city's streets out to Melvin, Sibley, Elliott and Paxton.