Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-11-15
From the Prairie Farmer. Sept.

Mr. Cahoon has farm of six acres, all told, on
which he contrives to get pretty fair living, if
we can judge from appearances. lie divides IT
between pie-plant, gooscberries, currants, ever
green's, and flowers.
But the pic-p plant is the thing here. He has a.
bout three acres in this root, all of his seed
ling. 1t stands on ground which was few years
ago a marsh, covered with alders, willows, and
water. Springs cropped to the surface just at
its upper edge and flooded the whole region. Mr..
Cah0on put in drains 30 feet apart and three feet
Deep and covered them. They were made four
pieces of timber The whole was given one'coat
of manure and no more; since which it is dry e.
nough for a wet time, and wet enough for dry
one, and will produce anything which is willing
to grow on reasonable land. We counted on
one root ffty-fivc stalks, of which the longest
was two feet in length from root to leaf, X would
girt eight inches or more. The others were of all
sizes down to fifteen inches in length, and an inch
i'll diameter, tho the average would be twenty
! inches long and four or more in circumference.
! This 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 a
half inches wide by twenty-sevcn long.
| These large stalks are commonly tattcned, but
! the rest are not SO by any means. Wesaw OH the
| same root, stalks round rifle barrel; some
of them were three feet in length and an inch and
a hafin diameter, while others would be tattened
so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
like the victoria d. some specified with purplish
red like the eggs of turkey. We satisfied that
nobody can tell a pie-piant by looking at the
stalks x leaves, without knowing more about it..
| Mr. C.s mode of culture is TO set the rows FIVE
feet apart and 3 feet apartin the rows. At this
distance they cover the ground i'll single season.
He has set $500 plants this year, commencing
the 10th and ending the 18th of May. He cuts
about three days Ill 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 elscwhere--getting about 81
per lUU pounds The cutting is continued tllfrost
comes. In cutting he is guided by Judgment tn
king all from plant he thinks it spare, and
going over the same ground or g time in a sea-
son. Then in spring and fall he makes sale of
roots. He sold last spring $500 roots or more
Any body can see that this pe-pant business is
not bad one. People are getting to it more
and more each season; and we have this very
summer detected ourselves in pre1erring pie
plant pie to any other of herb fruit.
| This fine plant never seeds, or very seldom SOL
all its strength is given to stalks and leaf.
Mr. Cahoon will be at our State Fair with his
pie-plant roots, and suit all purchasers with
the genuine article.
LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT THE WEST
American and English varieties that have been
fully tested both hardy and productive and not la
Die 10 mildcw Amongst them Is the justly ceiebra
ted Houghton's Seeding small fruit but of best
quality, one of the most productive never mildcws
in any locality. | have taken 20 quarts from sin
gle bush at one picking. | have had them make
growth of over five feet in single seassn 1t re-
quires to be trained to frame trellis-Prcc of
Hougeton's Seeding, bearing sizes, IS. each or 81
per dozen.
Evcrgrecns.-Ovcr 1000, from to feet high
Balsam and Norway Firs, Spruce, Pine liomlock
and Arbour Vitae These have grown in my rartleu
from three to five years, and can be transplanted
with as much certainty of growing, Us u currant-
Price 4s. to IS each.
Address, Ii. H. CAHO0N.
kcneshR, Wis,