SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

.barley, 2J to bushels;*beans, 2to \ bushels: buckwheat, or brank, li ushels; cabbage (drumhead), to trauf>lant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgscarrot in rills j 8, to 12 lbs; clover, 14 to 17 lbs; urze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 bs; [o. for single-line fencing, to sow one aile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turnipooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; 10., drilled, 4 lbs-, linseed, for flax, 2J i ushels; linseed, for seed, 1J bushels; ucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 5 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold rurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; larsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 put; ye, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if IriLled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J bussels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 'i bushels; trifoliu/m incarnatum, 24 bs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, I lbs; wheat, 2J to bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. WEen it is desired to form a lawn, ie ground should be trenched as lirected for the vegetable garden any ;ime during the autumn. If the plot sail be prepared in March, a season i;ay be gained by sowing the grass ieed during that month; the surface nust be thoroughly pulverised and ;rodden down firmly. The following s a good mixture, if procurable:— Ureste f l Dog-tail, 21Bs; Festuca tenui'olia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lioliuin tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; SVhite clover ,21bs; Trifoliuin minor, Jibs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens libs of each. This mixture will "iifice for half an acre, and will form a rery good lawn, and i? kept cut' close inswers most soils. Special mixtures : ov laying down lawns may also bo nad : rom any seedsman. Some of our lative poas and other grasses would inswer admirably for lawn purposes, [f the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon is the machine will act. Some oreer the scythe for the first time of jutting. Roll previous to mowing; .his will save the knives ot the mower.