MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 August 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

j Mai lb vios*:. tit Lcvii) ost 01800 -s i under ; — • For Wellington (dailyJ, 8 a.'jj . ! 1J" p.m., and 0-I*s P-i". For Pulmoistou North (daily), i 0.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. For Wanganui, New Plymouth aud districts (daily) 10.30 a.m. For Napier and Hawke's Bay district, Masterton and Wairarapa district ] trict (daily), 10.30 a.m. I For Auckland, per Main Trunk 'connecting at Palmereton North), daily 1.30 a.m. For Weraroa (daily) 8 a.in and U a.m. For Ohau and Alanakau (daily), 8 a.m. For Otaki (daily), 8 a.m. and I 1 p. in Koputaroft, Montoa, Tokomaru, ! inton and Longburn (daily), 10.30 am. For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. tid 7 p.m. 1 For Shannon, 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. ! For Te Horo, Waikanae, Paekakariki [ Plimmerton and Johnaonvillo (daily) ji 4.30 a.m. [i For Australian Colonies, Un.t-ed i Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Soitb Africa, ludia, China, Japan, e»«., as , specially notified- | For United States of America. W '• ada etc.. ns specially notitiod. SEUDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACKJS. liarley, 2i to 22 bushels; beans, 2 to bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to t'/aflf--1 plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; u'Vrot in drills, Bto 12 lbs; clover, ml 7 lbs; 1 furze or gorse, lor feed, 20 to 21 bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile,-3 to 4 Ibe; kohl rabi (turnip- ! rooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; 1 do., drilled, 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 2J bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushols; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., diilled, 1 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; [ parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pat; rye, 2* to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth leie), 2 to 24 bus-

bels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares. . winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to | '21 bushels; trifoliuiin incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2J to 2* oushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a la.vn, the ground should bo trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If tho plot can be prepared in March, a season tray 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, il procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2117k; L'estuca tenuifolia, 41 bs; l'"estuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuit'olia perenno, '201 bs; White clover .21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis nnd Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will suffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cift 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. 11 the ground is of a retentive nature, suwing the sseds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some >reier the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower.

TWIiLVJfi O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z. MEAN TIME. As compared wiLli— 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. Bern© .. ••• 1 0 a.m. Bombay 5 21 a.m. Boston . r 7 46 pm. Brindisi 1 42 a ni. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 -t in.