Clayton sits within a morning's drive of five state lines, and the buffalo grass rolls off in every direction with almost nothing to interrupt it. Five States Livestock Auction cuts lawns inside that big country — mowing, edging, trimming close along fences and outbuildings, then clearing what the cut leaves behind. Spring green-up arrives late and fast out here, and a lawn that gets its first cut in the right week grows in thicker for the rest of the year. Yards are shaped up on a regular round so the grass never gets ahead of the mower. Set against all that open prairie, a trimmed lawn is a small, stubborn, satisfying thing.