SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 September 1915, Page 4

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE.

rfarley, 21 to 22 bushels; beams, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 11 bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb;' canary, 3 pkgs; is?;rot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. co 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 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 ptft; rye, 2i to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth le&a), 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 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a laivn, the ground should be trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season may be 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, 2lUs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuin tenuifolia perenne, • 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nenioralis and Sompervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will "uffice for half au acre,'and will form a very good lawn, and IT kept cu"t 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 for lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive natare, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some oreler the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ,of the mower. TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z. MEAN TIME. As compared with— Adelaide 10 0 a.m. Aden 8 81 a.m. Alexandra 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam 0 50 a.m. Berlin 1 23 a.m. Berne 1 0 a.m. Bombay 5 21 a.m. Boston .... ... ... 7 46 pm. Brindisi 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 -i tn. —minim. ■■■. i» —a