SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 May 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

tfarloy, 2£ to SjJ bushels; beiu.s, 2 to 2£ bushels; buckwheat, or bruuk, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; t'urzo or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 24 bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushels, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2£ bushels; do., spring, 2 to 24 bushels; trifolium incarnatuni, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2J oushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. WfieTT it is desired to form a lawn, the ground should be trenched as directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season may be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, it procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21 Us; Festuca tenuilolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuin tenuii'olia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Xemoralis and Sempervirens -tlbs of each. This mixture will 'iiffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should l>c deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some jrefer the scythe for the lirst time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save tho knives oi the mower.