SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

I l riarley, 2J to 2$ bushels; beam, 2to ' 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, li bushels; cabbago (drumhead), to traiir- : plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; cfinot 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 lbe; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbago), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2J bushels; linseed, for 6eed, 1J 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 cole, 1 put; rye, 2* to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), "I to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifolimn incarnatuin, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2i bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. WEerT 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 cun 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 h a good mixture, it procurable:— CrestH. Dog-tail, 21Uk; Festuca temiifolia, -libs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,2lbs; Tiifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis mid Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will ~uftice 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 be nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive uatare, sowing the seeds should bo deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon J , as the machine will act. Some orefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; tliis will save the knives ot the mower.