SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

isarley, 2J to 2J bushels; beane, 2 to 2 J 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 Ibe; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 2J bushels; 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 Ibe; rape or cole, 1 pat; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2 J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 24 Ibe; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 21 to 2J bushels.