SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AM ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 May 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AM ACRE.

i<arley, 2J tu s?j{ bushels; beaus, 2 tu bushels; buckwheat, or brauk, li bushels ; (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot i" drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to IT lbs; iurze or gorse, lor feed, 20 to 24 'bs; do. lor singlo-iine fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 !b; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2i bushels; linseed, tor seed, 1£ bushels, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lb«; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth '2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2i bushels; Liifoliuin incarnatuni, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2$ to 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a lawn, the ground should be trenched as directed for the v-'egetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can bo prepared in March, a season may be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month ; the surface must bo thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, il procurable:— Crested Dog-tail. 2117*; Kestm-a tenuii'olin. 4lbs; Kestuca duruscula, 21bs; I,(ilium tcimii'olui perenne. 201 bs; White clover ,21bs; Tril'olium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoi alis nud Sempervirens 41bs of eacTi. This mixture will "uftice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and ii kept cut close answers most .soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also bo nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August: Commence to cut as soon as tho machinc will act. Some arelei' the scythe for the first time of cutting. ft oil previous to-"mowing ; this will save the knives ot the inower.