SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 June 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

riarley, 2i to 2J bushels; beams,. 2 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J ; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; furze or gorso, ior feed, 20 to 24 be; do. for single-lino fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbago), to transplant, 1 tb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 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, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass- (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2i bushels; tri folium incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 24 to 2i oushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. WlTen it is desired to form a la.vu, 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 may be gained by sowing the grays •seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised <uid trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, il procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21 lis; Festuca tenuii'olia, libs; Festuca dumscula," 21bs; Lolium tcnuifolia perenue, 201bs; White clover ,2!bs; Trifolium minor, Bibs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of eacTi. This mixture will uflice lor half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers rnust 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 bo deferred till August. Commence t*o cut as soon as the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives of the mower.