SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 July 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

r)alley, 2 J to 2 J bushels; beauts, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, LJ bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tvaiis--plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkga; iwob in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1.- eo 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 : bs; do. tor single-lino fencing, to sow oue mile, 3 to i lbs; kolil rabi (turuiprootud cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; du.,-drilled, 4 lbs,'linseed, for flax, 2J bueiieLs; linseed, for seed, 1J bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do ; . drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white. 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 1 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 piit; rye, 2} to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth lets), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, ■winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifolium incaruatum, 21 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs;'turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2J bushels. LAVING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired iu form a la.vu. I lie ground sliuiihi be trenched iu' directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, ,i season nay be gained by sowing the grist; seed during that month; the surl.tco must be thoroughly pulverised and trodden down linnly. The following i.i a good mixture, ii procurable

Crested Dog-tail. 2lbV; Kestuca tenuifoiia, -libs; I'csluca duruscula, 21 bs, I.olium tenuil'olia perenne, 201 bs; White rlovr .'Jibs; Trifnlinin in i 11. >r, iSllis; Com Neinoralis mid iSeiiipervirens lilts o! eaiTi. Tliip mixture will uftiee lor half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, aud if kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixture? fur laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. Some of mr native poii.s and other grasses would aiiswei' admirably tor lawn purposes--11 Ihe ground is of ;i retentive nature, sowing the seeds .should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the. machine will act. Some )reIcr the scythe for the lirst time of culling. lioll previous to mowing; this will '.aii' Ihe knives ol the ruower.