SEED REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 July 1915, Page 4

SEED REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

J "riarley, 21 to 21 bushels; beane, 2 tu 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, li bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to t'-*np-plunt, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgsf, e-vrot-in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, I. to 17 lbs; ' furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 2-1 bs; do. for single-line fencing, to how one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 21 bushels; linseed, lor seed, 1J bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, B to 1 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pat; rye, 2J to 3. bushels; rye grass (if drilled, ouo-fourth less), 2 to/21 bushels.; fiainfoiu, giant, 5 bushels; lures, winter, 21 bushels; d<j-, spring, 2 to 2J bushels; l-rifoliinn iuoarnatutn, 21 I lies; turuip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, i lbs; wheat, 21 to 21 uushels. LAYLNU DOWN A LAWN. When'it is desired to form a la.vu. the ground should be treuehed aa directed for the vegetable garden any time, during the autumn. If (he plot' can be prepared in March, a season tray be gained" by sowing the grass seed during that month ; the Hiirf.tce uui.sl.be thoroughly pulverised and trodden donn lirinly. The following is a good mixture, it procurable:---Crested Dog-tail. 21 be; I'Y.stuca tenuiloiiu, libs; Kostuca duruscula, 2lbs; Loliiim lenuil'olin pereune, 201 bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifblium minor, Slbs; Poa Nemuralis and Sempervkens •Hbs of each. This mixture will uflice for ball' an acre, and will form n very good 'lawn, and if kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman, tiume of )ur native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purpose**. II the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August, Commence lo cut as soon as Hie machine will act. Some 're-' ler the scythe for the first time of cutting. Pioll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ol the mower.