MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

Mails cloa<- - ai Lovld ost Olfice i uudcr;— For Wellington (daily), 8 i.:n , l.i > p.m., and 6.15 p.m. i<or Palmerston North (daily), 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Wanganui, New Plymouth *acl districts (daily) 10.30 a.m. For Napier and Hawke'e Bay district, Masterton and Wairarapa district (daily), 10.30 a.m. Focr Auckland, per Main Tru'nk 'connecting at Palmerston North), daily 1.30 a.m. For Weraroa (daily) 8 a.m. and !1 a.m. For Ohau and Manakau (daily), 8 a.m For Otaki (daily), 8 a.m. and 1 1 p.m Koputaroa, Moutoa, lokomaru, ! inton and Longburn (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. md 7 p.m. For Shaunon, 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Te Horo, Waikanae,, Paekakariki Plimmerton and Johnsonvillo (daily), 4.30 a.m. For Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Soith Africa, ludia, China, Japan, et«., aa specially notified. For United States of America, Canada etc., as specially notified.

SELCDa REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. uarley, 2J to 2J bushels; beane, 2to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 11 bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. eo 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, 21 bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzcl, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 busheis; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 rye, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth le&s), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2* bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2i bushels; trifoliumi incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubblo, i lbs; wheat, 2i 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 seaion may be gained by sowing the tfrass 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, 2lEs; Festuca te/iuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium t-enuifolia perenne, 201bs; Whito clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 8lbs; Poa Nenioralis and Sempervirens 41bs of eacfi. This mixture will suffice 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 tor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should Do deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some ureter the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower.

TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON NZ. MEAN TIME. As compared with— Adelaido ... 10 0 a.m. Aden 8 31 a.m. Alexandria. 2 28 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 p m Brindisi 1 42 a m Brisbane 10 30 a m Brussels ... ... 6 24 t«n