SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 May 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

tfarley, 2J to bushels; beams, 2to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, li 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, for feed, 20 to 24 be; do. for. single-line, fencing, to sow. one mile, 3to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2$ bu6hels; linseed, for 6eed, li bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lb6; rape or oole, 1 pkt; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye glass (if drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2 J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifolimn incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 21 to 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. Wfien 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 n:ay be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface mii6t be thoroughly pulverised and ti'oddeu down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21Cis; Fe6tuca tenuiFolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will suffice 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 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 Drefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower.