SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 June 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

! Parley, 2 i to 2 -J bushels; beans, 2to I 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brauk, li I \ bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to trans- j J plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot in ] drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, tor feed, 20 bo 24 bs; do for single-line fencing, to sow one I mile, 3to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs-, linseed, for flax, 21 bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J 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; rape or cole, 1 pkt; rye 24 to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i bus•hels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 24 bushels; triiolium incarnatuin, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to. 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 21 to 21 bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. WReil 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 bo thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a" good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2115k; Festuca teiiuilolia, libs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliiun tenuifolia porenne, 201 bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs ; Poa Neinoralis and Sempervirens 4lbs of each. This mixture will uf(ice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and il kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures !'or laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would 0 answer admirably lor lawn purposes. II the ground is of a retentive nature, sow ing the seeds should De deferred till e August. Commence to cut as soon j. as the machine will act. Some are- , i'er the scythe for the first time of ' o cutting. Roll pi-evious to mowing; , this will save the knives or the mower.