Late July, and the spruce windbreaks throw the only shade for a quarter mile in Oliver Township; heat sits on the open ground right up until sundown. Olivers Fertilizing works the yards along those section-line roads, mowing, trimming and edging so a place stays sharp through the hottest stretch of the year. Grass here has to take full sun and dry wind, which makes the difference between a mowed lawn and a tended one easy to spot from the road. Come October the same yards get raked and cleared, leaves off the drive and the beds put down for the cold. It is unhurried work, one property at a time, and it shows.