MAIL NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 September 1915, Page 4

MAIL NOTES.

Mails close at *.u\iu OC. .e under :— For Wellington (daily), K v:i 4.J5 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 district, Masterton and Wairarapa 'lis 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 i.l a.m. For Ohau and Manakau (daily), 8 a.m. For Otaki (daily), 8 a.in. and 1J p.m Koputaroa, Moutoa, lokomaru, ! inton and Longburn (daily), 10.30 am. For Foxton (daily) 10.45 a.m. *'id 7 p.m. For Shannon, 10.30 a.m. find 7 p.m. For Te Horo, Waikanao, Paekftkariki Plimmorton and Johnaouville (''ail'/) 4.30 a.m. For Australian Colonies, United Kingdom. Continent of Europe, ith Africa, India, China. Japan, etc., M specially notified For United States of America. -»n lid.i etc.. as specially notified. SELLS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. uarley, 2J to 22 bushels; beans, 2 tu 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; n-.;ryt in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. m 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 21 bs; do. for single-line loneing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs, liusued, for flax, 2i buwhels; linseed, lor 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 lew;), 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 2J bushels. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a la.vn, the ground should be trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can bo 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, 21Gs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41 bs; Festuca duruseula, 21bs, Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81 bs; Poa Nemoralis and Seniporvireus libs of each. This mixture will uffice for half an aero, and will form a very good lawn, and il kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be aad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes, li the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the sends should tie deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some orefcr the scythe for the lirst time of 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.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. Brindisi 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 Im.