MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 August 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

Mails close at Levin ost Olßoe -s I under:— I For Wellington (daily), 8 v.ui . i.V; p.m., and G. 15 p.m. ' For Palmerston North (daily), 10.30 ( 1 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Wanganui, New Plymouth *ud districts (daily) 10.30 a.m. I For Napier and Hawke's Bay :lifl- i trict, Master ton and Wairarapa dia- j trict (daUy), 10.80 a.m. For Auckland, per Main Trulnk 'connecting at Palmerston North), dady 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 41 p.m Koputaroa, Moutoa, Tokomaru, ! inton and Longhum (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. *nd 7 p.m. For Shannon, 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Te Horo, Waikanae, Paekakariki J Plimmerton and Johnsonville (daily), j! 4.80 a.m. For Australian Colonies, United 1 Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Soith V Africa, India, China, Japan, etc., as P specially notified. For United States of America, • Canada etc.. as specially notified. «=—=» SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN' ACRE. darley, 21 to 22 bushels; beans, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 11 bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tvaneplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot 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 ono mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turuip- ' rooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 21 bushels; linseed, for seed, 11 bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, I 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pktj mangold I I wurtzol, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; ■ parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 put; rye, 21 to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 21 bushels; do., spring, 2 to 21 bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 24 ? lbs; turnip, 2to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, , .4 lbs; wheat, 2i to 21 bushels. ! LAYING DOWN A LAWN. 1 When it is desired to form a lawn, 1 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 f iray be gained by sowing . the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised .uid trodden down firmly. The following . is a good mixture, if procurable:— ! Crested Dog-tail, 21 us; Festuca tenuiP ' folia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; i Lolium touuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, ,+ 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens i 41bs of each. This mixture will "uf(ice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close I 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 a- answer admirably tor lawn purposes. d If the ground is of a retentive nature, n sowing the seeds should bo deferred till l- August. Commence to cut as soon l- as the machine will act. Some orejr i'er the scythe for the first time of ih cutting. Roll previous to mowing; id this will save the knives of the mower. ur TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON NZ. jd MEAN TIME. iy a ] As compared with— Adelaide 10 0 a.m. Aden 8 81 a.m. Alexandria ... ... 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam ... ... 0 50 a.m. Berlin 1 23 am. ho Berne 1 0 a.m. co Bombay 5 21 a.m. Iy Boston 7 46 pm. sr- Brindisi 1 42 am. io Brisbane 10 30 am. n- Brussels 6 24 im.