MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 August 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

Mails close at Levin ost Office _s under For Wellington (daily), 8 v.in . 4.3 *3 p.m., and 6;15 p.m. For Palmerston North (daily), 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Wanganui, New Plymouth and districts (daily) 10.30 a.m. For Napier and Hawke'a Bay ilifitrict, Masterton and Wairarapa dis trict (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Auckland, per Main Trunk 'connecting- at Palmerston North), daily 1.30 a.m. For Werai-oa (daily) 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. For Ohau and Manakau (daily), 8 &.m For Otski (daily), 8 a.m. and * 1 p.m Koputaroß, Houtoa, Tokomaru, ! inton and Longburn (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. »nd 7 p.m. For Shannon, 10.80 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Te Horo, Waikanae, Paekakariki Plimmerton and Johnaonville (dsily), 4.30 a.m. For Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Soith Africa, India, China, Japan, etc., ae specially notified. For United States of Amebic*, Janada etc., as specially notified. Hl—— SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACHE. Uarley, 2J to 2jJ bushels; beans, 2 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; o-.yrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1-* to 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, bushels; linseed, for 6oed, 1J bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzol, 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&s), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2J bushels; trifoliuiin incarnatum, 24' lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a lawn, 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 u.ay be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be 'thoroughly pulverised and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable: — Crested Dog-tail, 2llTs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tonuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of eacfi. This mixture will 'uffice 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 tnay also bo nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes. If the ground is of u retentive nature, sowing the seeds should bo 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 ot 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. 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 *m.