MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

Mails close at LeviD oat Office -s under :— For Wellington (daily), 8 i.®., 4.J"} p.m., and 6.15 p.m. For Palmerston North (daily), 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Wanganui, New Plymouth *nd districts (daily) 10.30 a.m. For Napier and Hawke's Bay :listrict, Masterton and Wair&rapa dis trict (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Auckland, per Main Trunk 'connecting at Palmerston North), daily 1.30 a.m. For Weraroa (daily) 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. For Ohau and Manakau (daily), 8 a.m. For Otaki (daily), 8 a.m. and * 1 p.m Koputaroa, Moutoa, Tokomaru, i inton and Longhurn (daily), 10.30 a.m. For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. md 7 p.m. For Shannon, 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Te Horo, Waikanae, Paekakariki Plimmerton and Johnsonville (daily) 4.80 a.m. For Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Soitb Africa, India, China, Japan, e*«>., m speoially notified. For United States of America '*n ada etc., as specially notified. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. iiarley, 2} to 2j bushels; beans, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; rnvrot 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, 2| 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 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 put; rye, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 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, 21 to 2i bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a lawn, 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 season 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, 2lUs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will "uffice 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 jur native poas and other grasses would answer admirably . tor lawn purposes. If the ground ls of 11 retentive nature, sowing the 6eeds should bo deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ol 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. Blind isi 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 *m.