SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 June 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

liarley, 2 J to 2jJ bushels; beans, 2to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1£ 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, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, ■ 1 1b; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for'flax, 2J bushels; linseed, fox seed, 1} bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do./drilled, 15 lbs; mustard,,white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; -oate, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 pkt; rye, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J b-us-hels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2i bushels; trifoliuim incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2i bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

WEen 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 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, 21b~s; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuni tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will fice 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 otEer 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 boon as the machine will act. Some orefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing ■ this will save the knives ot the mower.