SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 April 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

jsarloy, -i to 2 3 bushels; buaucs, 2 tu 2-J bushels; buckwheat, or braiik, J j bushels; cabbage (.drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; cauaay, 3 pkgs; carrot in duill#, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; lurzo or gorse, lor feed, 20 to 24 lbs; do. lor single-line leueiug, to sow 0110 mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kolil iabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, lor flax, 2£ bushels; linseed, for seed, 14 bushels , lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, ~i to 4 bushel*; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (it drilled, one-iourth less), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2} bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2£ bushels; trifolium incarnatuni, 21 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2J to 2J oushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. W fieri it is desired to form a lawn, ihe ground should be trenched us directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autunin. 11 : the .plot can be prepared in March, a season n:ay lie gained by sowing the grass J seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised «u>d ! trodden down firmly. The following ! is a good mix Lure, il procurable:<J res tod Dog-tail, 2lb~s; Festuca tenn:folia, II Festuca durusculft,. 21!>* ; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201 b.s; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 8 lbs; l'oa Xemoralis and Seinpervirens tlbs of eacTi. This mixture will ufliee for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and il kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laving down lawns may also be had from any seedsman. Some of our native poas ami other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. 1( the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the lirst time of rutting. "Roll previous to mowing; I this will save the knifes ol the mower.