SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 July 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

jiarley, 2i to 94 bushels; beams, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brunk; li 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 bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 ibs; kohl.rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs ■, linseed, for flax, 2{ bushels; linseed, for seed, 1£ bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wur tzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2* bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2§ bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2| bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. WfleU it is desired to form a la.vn ; the ground . should be trenched afl 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 grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised and trodden down lirmly. The following is a good mixture, il procurable: Crested Dog-tail, 211Js; I'estuca lenuifolia, -libs; Festucu dursiscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201 bs; White clover ,2lbs; Trifolhnn minor, Bibs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervii'ens •libs of eacTi. This mixture will uflice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also bo nad from any seedsman. Koine of our native poas and otlier grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive uature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as'the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the first time ol cutting. Roll previous to mowing; ( this will save the knives ot the mower.