Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-11-22
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From tie Prairie Farmer, Sept. 1855.
Mr. Cahoon has a farm of six acres, all told, on
which he contrives to get pretty fair living, il
we can Judge from appearances. He divides it
between pieplant, gooseberries, currants, ever
greens, and flowers.
| But the pie-plant is the thing here. He has a.
bout three acres i'll this root, all of his own seed
| ling l. stands on ground which was few years
! ago marsh, covered with aiders, willows, and
water Springs cropped to the surface Just at
! its upper edge and flooded the whole region. Mr..
Cahoon put in drains 30 feet apart and three feet
deep, and covered them. They were made of four
pieces of timber. The whole was given one coat
of manure and no more; since which 1t is dry e.
nough for a wet time, and wet enough for q dry
one, and will produce anything which Is willing
/ to grow on reasonable land. We counted on
one root liftv-five stalks, Of which the longest
was two feet i'll length from root to Leaf, N would
rrt eight inches or more. The others were of all
sizes down to fifteen inches i'll length and an inch
in diameter, tho the average would be twenty
inches lq-~ and four or mere il circumference
r;:s root was not an unusual size, and was only
an average of those which have stood three years
and are allowed a fair chance, Mr., G, showed us
a stalk preserved in spirits which is five and q
half inches wide by twcnty-scvcn long.
! These large stalks are commonly ilattencd, but
the rest are not so by any means We saw on the
same root stalks as round rifle barrel; some
of them were three feet in length and an inch and
a halfin diameter, while others would be tattcned
50 as to be twice rs wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
like the victoria x some spccklcd with purp!isl
rcd like the eggs ofaturkey. We are satisfied that
nobody can tell pieplant by looking at the
stalks x leaves, without knowing more about it.
Mr. C's mode Of culture is TO Sc: the rows five
feet apart and feet apart in the rows. At this
distance they coverthc ground IN single season.
\ He has set 500 plants this year, commencing
THE 10th and ending the 18th of May. He cuts
about three days in the week, cutting about four
or five hundred pounds per day. He puts up in
boxes or balls, and sells in Milwaukee, Chicago,
Detroit, Buffalo, or elSewhere-getting about ) /
per 1910 pounds. The cuttingis continued till frost
comes. In cutting he is guided by Judgment ia
king all from plant he thinks it can spare, and
going over the same ground OF time in sea-
son. Then in spring and fall ne makes sale of
roots. He sold last spring 2 500 roots or more.
| Any body can see that this pie-plant business is
not bad one. People are getting to use il more
and more each season; and we have this very
summer detected ourselves in prcterrng pie
plant pie to any other Of herb fruit.
! This fine plant never seeds, or very seldom So;
all its strength is given to stalks and leaf.
| Mr.. Cahoon will be at our State Fair with his
pie-plant roots, and can suit all purchasers with
! the genuine article.
! GoOsEBEEEEEs.
! LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT IL THE WEST.
| American and English varieties that have been
fully tested, beth hardy and productive and not lia
bic to nlldew. Amongst them is the justly celcbra
led lloughtons Seeding, small fruit bat of best
quality, one of the most productive, never Indews
| in any locality. | have taken 20 quarts from a sim
| gle bush at picking. l have had them make a
growth of over five feet in a single seassn. 1t re-
quires to be trained to frame n trellis.-Erice OF
Hougeton's Seeding, bearing sizes, IS each or g.
per dozen
Evergreens.-Oeer4 1000, from . to feet high.
/ Balsam and Norway Firs, Spruce, Pine, Hemock,
and Arbour Vitae. These have grown in my garden
from three TO five years, and can be tranaplancd
with much certainty of growing currunt-
1 Price As. to 81 each.
Address, B. II. CARBON.
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