SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 May 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Uarley, 2 f to ?,il bushels; boans, 2to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, li Ijiiiihels; cabbage (drumhead), to traiisplunl, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkjjjs; uuri'ul in chills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; l'urzu or goi'so, lor feud, 20 to 24 bs; do. for single-line teneiug, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kobi- rabi (turniproottxl cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for ila.x, 2i bufihols; linseed, for seed, 1J bushels, lucerne, broadcast, "20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; musLard, white, 1 pkb; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, B to 4 busheis; pr.i snip, 10 lb«; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye, i° bushels;, rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less). 2 to 2i bushel.s; (sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 t<; 2! 2 bushels; trifolmm incarnatum. 24 lbs; tui'iiip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2£ oushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. Wfioii it is desired to form a lawn, tin , grniiml sliould be trenched as directed lor the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season n.ay be gained by fiowmg the grass seed during that month; the surface inii.st be thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a goud mixture, il procurable: — Created .Dog-tail, 21 Us: l'"estuun LenuiInliu. -Jibs; t'estuca duriiscula, 21bs; Loliiim t<!iiiiil'olia perenne, 201 bs; White clover .'illis; Ti ifoliuin minor, tillns; Poji Xenioralis and Sempei'virens ■libs of ea(Ti. Thifi mixture will "iiifice lor half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and ii kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures lot laying down lawns may also be nad horn any seedsman. iS'omc of our native poas and otlier grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. 11 the ground i.s of a roteniive nature, sowing the seeds sliould be defi'rred till August. Commence to cut as soon as tlie machine will act. Some orefer the scythe for Im- first time of cutting. 'Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives of the inoiver.