The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-12-18
NUMBER 26
product OF which will be greater than
Tor three years past.
PREPARING FOR ROSES.


The soil Tor roses. writes an English
florist, should be ut least two
feet deep; three feet would ever be
better, especially in dry seasons. A
large and excellent bed for roses /
once saw made in the following man.
ner: The natural soil was shallow,
poor and light. This was first trenched
up, the good soil being kept on the
top, then twelve inches in depth of soil
from an old pasture was laid on that.
This was obtained by running a pillow
at intervals of a few feet through the
surface OF Il grass field, and bringing
away what the pillow turned up. Dur
ing next summer the grass grew and
filled up the burrows made by the
pillow, and the pasture was none the
worse for the loss of the narrow strips
removed. In urse of time clay plac-
ed on the surface finds its way to the
bottom of the moved soil, and it is
very useful there in storing up mois-
ture. Indeed, one inch or two inches
OF clay where the subsoil is very por-
Gus placed at the bottom of rose-beds
or borders would be a benefit rather
than an evil, inasmuch as it checks
the too rapid descent of water. In APP
plying clay to the surface as a top
dressing, it should be done in winter
and left to pulverize by exposure, so
that il may afterward easily mix and
blend with the soil. In m%anuring roses
the character Of the soil should be
studied. For light, porous soils, that
from the cowhouse and piggers is the
best, stable anu being better adapt
ed for heavy soils. Though roses like
deep, heavy loans everything clays,
they will not succeed well where the
clays come up neal the surface. Clay
is very well when covered with II good
depth of loan, but roses will not
thrive successfully in heavy, cold clays,
but even this class of soils can be fit
ted for roses or anything else if n
goes the right way about matters.
The first thing to do is to remove some
of it now, and when partly dried re-
turn it, mixing ashes with it TO break
it up and adding plenty of manure;
then plant before Christmas;
KEEP III CALVES GROWING.
We presume. at least we hope, that
our advice to keep the heifer calves
has been taken by many. n that the
butcher will never again have such an
excellent opportunity TO find the ma
terial for veal. But let it now be I'M
derstood that if it is intended to make
a good cow-or for that matter, a
growing. That rule ought to be OBJ
served with reference to all young
stock. And, perhaps, this is as good
a place as any to tell what q cores
pendent in one of our most valued ex-
changes says in regard to raising calves
without milk. He says he has raised
just as fine calves as can be raised by
the method TO be described. 1t is this:
For three days he lets the calf suck
the COW. Then he takes it entirely
away from the cow, and feeds upon
hay tea and milk, beginning with
one-quarter of tea and three-quarters
of milk, feeding it blood warm. Grad
ually he diminishes the milk, until the
food is exclusively hay tea. He says
that hay tea-the hay must be the best
lis much better than grass, and that
the calf likes it much better. Mill
stuffs may be added to the tea as the
calf seems to need ii, but in small
quantities. A little iirst-rate hay is
placed where the calf IA get at it,
and he will soon learn to nibble at it.
The writer is enthusiastic over his
plan, and certainly it is cheap. 1t will
pay a great deal better to try it on a
heifer calf than it usually will to sell
it to the butcher. - WeStcrR Rural.