SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 July 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

tJarley, 2J to 2J bushels; beans, 2 t 2$ bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1 bushels j cabbage (drumhead), to tram plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; carrot i drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 do. for single-line fencing, to sow on mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turnip cabbage), to transplant, l/'fb do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flai, 2 bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J bi'-shels lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do..'drilled 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangob wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to i bushels parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pat rye, 2J to 3 bushels; rje grass (i drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J bus hels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares winter, 2i bushels; do., spring, 2 t 2$ bushels; trifoliuim incarnatum, % lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnjp stubbln 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2| bushel^. - LAYING DOWN A LAWf. WEen it is desired to form a lawitj the ground should be trenched a; directed for the vegetable garden an] time during the autumn. If the ploi can be prepared in March, a seasoi may be gained by sowing the grasi seed during that month; the surfac< must be thoroughly pulverised aiu trodden down firmly. The followinj is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21Fs; Festuca tenui folia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor 81bs; Poa Nemornlis and Sempervireni 41bs of each. This mixture will "iif fico for half an acre, and will form i very good lawn, and IT kept cut closs answers most soils. Special mixture* for laying down lawns may also be nac from any seedsman. Some of oui native poas and other grasses woulc answer admirably for lawn purposes If the ground is of a retentive nature sowing the 6eeds should be deferred tii August. Commence to cut as soor as the machine will act. Some orefer the scythe for the first time ol cutting. Roll previous to mowing this will save the knives ot the mower,