SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

uarley, 'lh to 2J bushels; betuus, 2 to •24 bushels; buckwheat, or brauk, U ! bushels; cabbago (drumhead;, to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot 111 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 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 1\ bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J bushels; lu»erne, 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 cole, 1 p*t; rye, 2j to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, "one-fourth less), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, wintor, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2i bushels; trifoliunu incarnatuui, 24 lbs,; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stnbblo, 4 lbs; wheat, 21 to 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. Wfien it is desired to form a la.vn, the ground should be trenched as directed for tho 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, 21Us; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium teuuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of eacli. This mixture will uffic» 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 other grasses wo.ild answer admirably ior lawn purpose. If the ground is of a retentive nat.ue, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some irel'er the scythe for the lirst time of cutting. Rol 1 previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot tlie mower.