MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 September 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

Muils close at Lovtij u.;t Oliice > under For Wellington (daily), H v.*n 4.J 1 ; p.m., and 6.15 p.m. For Palmerston North (daily), 10.30 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 (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./l a.m. For Ohau and Manakau (daily), ti a.m. For Otaki (daily), 8 a.m. and 1 1 p.m Koputaroft, Moutoa, l'okomaru, ' intoii and Longburn (daily), 10.30 am. 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, Paek&kariki Plimmerton and Johnsonville (daily), 4.30 a.m. For Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Soitb Africa, India, China, Japan, etc., aa specially notified For United States of America knttda etc., as specially notified. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. Parley, 2} to 22 bushels; beam-;, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brauk, li bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tvan*plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ir-rot in drills, Bto 12 lbs; clover, 1. 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 bs; do. for single-lino fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbsj linseed, for flax, 2i bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushals, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 put; rye, 2\ to 3 bushels; rye grass '(il drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J hels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels' do., spring. 2 to 2i bushels; trifoliu.m incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat, 2J to 2i 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 season tray be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised .md trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, il procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2lbs; Festuca tenuifoiia, 41 bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliu in tenuifolia perenne, 201 bs; White clover ,21 bs; Trifoliwm minor, 8lbs; Poa Nemoralis and Senipervirens ■libs of each. This mixture will "uf(ice 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. tioine of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive natiire, sowing the soede .should tie deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Somo prefer the scythe ,for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ol tho mower. TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z MEAN TIME. A? 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 pra, Brindisi 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 a ra. Brussels 6 24 -i oi. nenmu-ivMPfc-satraffim