SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 April 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

mii-ley, 2} to :>4 bushels; 2 u> j j>i bushels; buckwheat, or biauk, H bushels j cabbage (.drumhead;, to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, lor feed, 20 to 21 'bs; do. lor single-line leucing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rain (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, -1 lbs; linseed, lor tlax, 2i bushols; linseed, tor seed, 14 bushels, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, lo lbs; mustard, white. 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; outs, 3 to 4. bushels: parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye glass (d drilled, one-fourth less;,. 2 to 2{ bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2i bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; tliroliuin ineamatnin. 2-1 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2* oushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a lawn, the ground should be trenched as directed lor the vegetable garden any timo during the autumn. 11 the plot can bo prepared in -March, a season n:ay i){. gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is p. good mixture, it procurable:— Crested Dog-tail. 2UJs; Kestnea tenuitolia, 41bs; f'estuca duruscuhi, 21bs; Loliuin tcnuil'olia peronue, 201 bs ; White clover ,21bs; Tril'olium minor, ■Slbs; Poa Nemoralis and Setnpervireas libs of each. This mixture will ufiice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and it kept cut close msweivi most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. 801110 of our native poas and other grasses would mswer admirably lor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon is the machine will act. Some prcer the scythe for the first time of Mitting. 801 l previous to mowing; ,his will save the knives of the mower.