SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 July 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

tfarley, 24 to 2jf bushels; beaau>, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tvaair plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. *o 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2f bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pst; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2J to 2$ bushels.

LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When 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 can be prepared in March, a season n:ay be gained by sowing the seed during that month; the surface must bo thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2llJs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuin tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sonipervirens -libs of eacTi. This mixture will uf-

tiee for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and iT kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also bo nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some irefer the scythe for the first timo of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower.

Mrs Manz, Wellsborne-street. Palmerston North, says:—"l ? or months I had a frightful pain in me back, right across the kidneys, it was so bad that I was very disheartened; J cannot explain this torture. People told me that the. pain was caused by my kidneys being disordered, but all the medicines, and the liniments I rubbed in, did me no good. Then, when } r ms at a loss what to try next. 1 heard about Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, and 1 got some. These Pills proved the right thing for me; I am quite cured now. They are a splendid remedy for the kidneys, and 1 recommend them to other sufferers." Twelve years later Mrs Manz confirms the above: —"My cure has st ■ <i tb- test of time; i 9m still absolutely free from backache and it is twelve years since Doan's Backache Kidney Pills cured me. 1 am eighty-three years of age, and I think it wonderful that this medicine has cured me so thoroughly at my time of life." Let this point be fastened in your mind —"Backache is kidney ache, and if neglected brings in its train all the horrors of advanced kidney disease." Doan's Backache Kidney Pilta cured Mrs Manz. "A word to the wise is enough." Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are sold by all chemists at 3s per bottle (six bottles 16s 6d) or will be posted on receipt of price by Foster-McClellan Co., 76 Pitt Street, Sydney. But, be sum you get DOAN'S.