MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 August 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

j Mails close at Levin ost Olb'ce « 1 under :— For Wellington (daily), 8 v.aj . j l.J'; p.m., and 6.15 p.m. . For Palmereton North (daily), 10.30 a.in. and 7 p.m. For Wanganui, New Plymouth *ud districts (daily) 10.30 a.m. For Napier and Hawke's Bay district, Maflterton and Wairarapa dia trict (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Auckland, per Main Trunk 'eonnecting at Palinereton North), daily 1.30 a.m. For Weraroa (daily) 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. For Ohau and Manakau (daily), 6 a.m For Otaki (daily), 8 a.m. and 4 1 p.m Koputaroa, Moutoa, lokomaru, ! inton and Longhurn (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. tid 7 p.m. For Shannon, 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Tβ Horo, Waikanae, Paek&kariki Plimiuerton and Johnsonville ('Uily) [ 4.30 a.m. ,; For Australian Colonies, United I Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Soith ' Africa, India, China, Japan, e*«., »« • specially notified. !j For United States of America '»n----i ada etc.. ae specinlly notified.

BEUDS REQUIRED TO SOW A N ACRE.

liarley, 2i to 2i bushels; beams, 2 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 11 bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tvanfplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1- oo 17 lbs; furze or gorse, tor feed, 20 bo 24 ,bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to i lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 2J buehels; 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 pat; rye, 1\ to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2 J bushels; trifoliu.m incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, i lbs; wheat, 2J to 2i bushels.

LAYING DOWN A LAWN

When it is desired to form a la>vn, the ground should be trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can bo prepared in March, a season iL-ay be gained by Rowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixturo, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2lFs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruecula, 21bs; Loliiim tcuuifolia pereune, 201bs; Whito clover .21bs; Trifolium minor, Bibs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens libs of each. This mixture will 'uftico 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 also be nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably for lawn purposes. It the ground is of a retentive natare, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as boon as the machine will act. Some oretor the scythe for the first time of (cutting. 801 l previous to mowing; this will save the knives or 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 58 a.m Amsterdam 0 50 a.m. Berliu 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 hm,

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