SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 August 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Uarley, 2t to ilt bushels; beano, 2 to bushels; buckwheat, or brank, li .bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tvanfplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; p-.rot in drills, Bto 12 lbs; clover, jo 17 lbs; lurze or gorse, for feed, '20 to 21 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 flux, 2i bushels; linseeJ. for seed, li bushels, lucerno, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., dulled, 15 lbs; mustard, white. 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 put; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth le&s), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2* bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat.. 2i to uushels. LAVING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a la.vu, 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 nay be gained by sowing the ; r ,ruoS seed during that month; the surface must bo thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, it procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2lUs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuea duruscula, 21bs, Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sompervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will uft tice for half an acre, and will form a / very good lawn, and il 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 nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some )refer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives of the mower.