SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 June 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

liarley, 2J to 2£ bushels; be-ane, 2 tu U'.J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, li bushels j cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; eauary, 3 pkgs; carrot in. drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for toed, 20 to 24 bs; do. for eiugle-line lencing, to sow ouo mile, 3 to 4 lbe; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 21 buehek; linseed, for seed, li bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rope-or cole, 1 pkt; •■ye, 2J to 3 bushels; ryo grass (if drilled, onc-I'onrth lees), 'J to 2\ bushols; eaiufcin, gioiit. 5 bushels; tares, win lor, 2i bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifoli.uni incarnatuin, 24 Ibis: Luriiip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubblo, t lbs; wheat, 2i to 2J bushels. LAYJiNG DOWN A LAWN. WlielT it is desired to form a latvu, the ground should bo trenched us directed fur tlits vegetable gardei) any timo during the autunm- If tho plot can be prejjand in March, n »i:ay be guincil by mowing tli« grass seed durjuy; thai inojitli; tho surfaeo must, bo thoroughly pulverised iiud trodden down (irmly. The following is a good mixture, il procurable:— Ores led Dog-tail, 121 IS;; Kestuca leuui- , folia, -libs; Kestuea duriiscula, 21bs; l.olium leuiiil'olia pcreiiue, 201 bs: Wliitf. clover ,21 bs; Tiifolium minor, Slb.'.i; l'oa ISemnrnlia mid Semporvirene libs oi eacTi. This mixture will ~uf&cb for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most «oiJf>. Special mixtures for Inyiug dowj) lawns may ako he- nad. fro in any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably for lawu purposes. H the ground is of a retentive nature, mowing the seed/; should be deferred till August- Commence to cut as soon as tho machine will act, £>om<« aieI'.'j' the scythe for the first timo of cutting. 801 l previous to mowing; this will ; ; ave the knives ot the inowor.