SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

xiarley, 2 J to 2$ bushels ; beans, 2 to I 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, lj bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tram--' plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot in rlrills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 .bs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 2J be; do. for single-line fencing, to one mile, 3to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs > linseed, for flax, bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs ; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 ptft; rye, 2i to 3 bushels: rye grass (if drilled, oue-fdurth lees), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giaut, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifoliumi incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubbln, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. WEen 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 be thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2lFs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuni tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,2!bs; Trifoliuui minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis mid Sempervirens 41 bs of eacTi. This mixture will "uflico for half an acre, and will form a j very good lawn, and If kept cut close answers most soilfi. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be aad 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 to 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.