SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

LSarley, 2i to 2i bushels; beam, 2 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, U bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; o*;rot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, '.. u> 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, 2J bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushals; 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 p*t; rye, 2* to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less). 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 0 bushels; Laics, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2i bushels; trifoliunn 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 lawn, the ground should he trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can he prepared in March, a season n:ay he gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised .ind trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if , procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21hs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41 hs; Festuca durusciila, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenue, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, iSlbs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens fibs of each. This mixture will fice 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 aleo be nad from any seedsman. Some of mr 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 iiH the machine will act. Some areler the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives oi the mower.

TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z. MEAN TIME. As compared with— Adelaide 10 0 a.m. Aden 3 31 a.m. Alexandria. 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam 0 50 a.m. Berliu 1 23 am. Berne 1 0 a.m. Bombay 5 21 a.m. Boston . ■ ... 7 46 pm. Brindisi 1 42 a ui. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 im.