MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

lails close at Levin oat Office s ler:■ — .for Wellington- (daily), 8 *-ao . 5 p.m., and 6.15 p.m. tor Palmerston North (daily), 10.30 o i. and 7 p.m. * for Wanganui, New Plymouth «ud a triote (daily) 10.80 a.m. [C For Napier and Hawke's Bay tiis- e ct, - Masterton and Wairarapa dia- a ot;.(daily), 10.30 a.m. (Tor. Auckland,. per Main Trunk 'eoncting at. Palmerston .Worth), dady 10 a.m.. s For..Weraroa (daily) 8 a.m. and U c 8.--For Ohau and Manakau (daily), 8 j m < For Otaki (daily), 8 a.m. and 4 1 m ~ 1 Koputaroa, Moutoa, Tokomaru, ! inn and Longbum (daily), 10.30 a.m. j For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. tnd < p.m. For Shannon, 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. - For Te Horo, Waikanae, Paekakariki < limmerton and Johnsonville (daily) 80 a.m. For Australian Colonies, United , ingdom, Continent of Europe, Soitb frica, India, China, Japan, et«., as >eoially notified. For United States of America, • *nla etc., as specially notified. BEEDS.REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. uarley, 21 to 2* bushels; beans, 2 to i bushels;, buckwheat, or brank,. 1| ushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tvanelant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot m rills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. co 17 lbs; urze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 be; [o for single-lino lencing, to sow one aile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohlrabi (turmp■ooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; 10., drilled, ,4 lbs-, linseed, for flax, 21 mshels; linseed, for seed, U bushels; ucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled L 5 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold ,vurtzel, 5 lbs; oate, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 put; rye 21 to 3 bushels; rye grass (il drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i 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, 2i to 21 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 be prepared in March, a sewon may 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, 21b~s; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sompervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will suffice 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, If the ground is of a retentive nature : sowing the seeds should be deferred til! August. Commence to cut a 6 t>ooi as the machine will act. Some ore i'er the scythe for the first time o! 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.n Amsterdam ° 50 a.m Berlin 1 23 a.m Berne 1 °an Bombay 5 21 a.n Boston 7 46 pa Brindisi 1 42 a n Brisbane 10 30 a a Brussels •• 6 24 * u

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