SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 May 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

liarley, 2J to 2J bushels; beans, 2 to bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; 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 teed, 20 to 24 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, 2i bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled,. 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye, 2£ to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i bushels ; sainfoin, giant; 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2J to 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When 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 bo prepared in March, a season n:ay 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, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2165; Festuea tenuifolia, 41bs; Fcstuea duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tcnuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs: Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens -libs of eacTi. This mixture will «uf- ' lice 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 pons and other grasses would answer admirably for lawn purposes. If 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 Dre- | I'er the scythe for the first time of | cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives of the mower.