Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-04
From The Prairie Farmer, Sept. 1855.

FROM Me ITdTB II GTHteT, sept IO'IO.
Mr.. Cahoon has 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 pie-plant, gooseberries, currants, ever
green's, and flowers.
But the pie plant is the thing here. He has IL
bout three acres in this root, all of his own seed
hing. 1t stands on ground which was a few years
ago a marsh, covered with alders, willows, and
water. Springs cropped to the surface just ut
its upper edge and flooded the whole region. Mr..
Cahoon put in drains 80 feet apart and three feet
deep, and covered them. They were made Offour
pieces of timber. The whole was given one coat
of manure and no more; since which it is dry e.
nough for 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 fifty five stalks, of which the longest
WAS two feet in length from root to leaf, d would
GRIT eight inches or more. The others were of all
sizes down to fifteen inches in length, and an inch
in 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
stalk preserved in spirits which is five and a
| half inches wide by twcntv-Scyen long.
| These large stalks are commonly tlattened, but
the rest are not 50 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
SO as to be twice wide thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
like the victoria Il some speckled with purplish
red like the eggs of turkey. We satisfied that
nobody can tell pie-plant by looking Mt the
stalks d leaves, without knowing more about it,
Mr.. C.'s mode of culture is to set the rows five
feet apart and 3 feet apart in the rows. At this
distance they cover the ground in single season.
He has set $3.50 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 81
per loo pounds. The cutting is continued till frost
comes In cutting he is guided by Judgment tn
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 he makes sale of
roots He sold last spring 2,5U0 roots or more
Any body can see that this pie-pant business is
not a bad one. People are getting to use it more
and more each season; and we have this very
summer detected ourselves in preferring a 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 State Fair with his
pie-plant roots, and can suit all purchasers with
the genuine article.
GO0SEBERRgES.
LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT THE WEST.
American and English varieties that have been
fully tested both hardy and productive. and not liza
bic to mildcw. Amongst il.cIn is the justly cccbra
ted Houghtons Seeding, small fruit but of best
quality, one of tie most productive never mildews
in any locality. | have taken 20 quarts from "A sin
gle bush at one picking. | have had them make
growth of over FIVE feet in single seassn 1t re-
qures to bc trained TO frame or n tIcllis--Price of
Iougetons Seeding, bearing sizes, IS. each; or 81
per dozen.
Evergreens.--ovcr 1000, from to feet high
Balsain and Norway FRS, Spruce, Pine, licmIock
aud Arbour Vitae. These have grown iii my garden
from three to five years, and can be rGnsplanted
with much certainly of growing, currant.-
Price 4s. to s. each.
Address, IL. .CAUOON.