SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

rJarley, 2i to 2J bushels; bear.s, 2 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, li bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to traiipplaut, 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, 3 to 4 Ibe; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 21 bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurteel, 5 lbs; oate, 3to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2J bushels ; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 21 bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifoliiwn incarnatum, 24 Ibe; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 21 bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN*. Wfien it is desired to form a la.vn, 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 gain'ed 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, 21Es; Festuca tenuiFolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of eacn. This mixture will *uffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and IT 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 otlier 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 the machine will act. Some arefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower.