Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-25
From the Prairie Farmer, Sept. Is

Mr.. Cahoon has farm of six acres, all told, on
which he contrives to get pretty fair living, Al
we can Judge from appearances. He divides it
between pie-plant, gooseberrieS, currants, ever
greens and flowers.
But the pie-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 a 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..
Cahoon put in drains 80 feet apart and three feet
deep and covered them. They were made of four
pieces of timber The whole was given coat
of manure and no more; since which it is dry c.
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 ffty-tivc stalks, of which the longest
was two feet in length from root to leaf, Il would
girt 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 fair chance. Mr.. &. showed us
a stalk preserved i'll spirits which is five and a
half inches wide by twenty-seven long.
These large stalks are commonly fattened but
the rest are not so by any means. We saw on the
same root, stalks as round as rifle barre some
of them were three feet i'll length and inch and
halfin diameter, while others would be fattened
so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
like the victoria 4 some speckled with purphsh
red like the eggs of turkey. We are satisfied that
nobody can tell Il p;e-p!ant by looking at the
stalks Il leaves, without knowing more about it,
Mr.. C.'s mode of culture is to set the rows five
feet apart and feet apartn 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 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 elscwhere--gctting about =
per 100 pounds. The cutting is continued tillfrost
comes In cutting heis guided by Judgment ia
king all from a plant he thinks it can spare, and
going over the same ground or time in 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 pie-plant business is
not bad one. People arc getting to use it more
and more each season; and we have this very
summer detected ourselves in prcferring a pic
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
pieplant roots, and car suit all purchasers with
the genuine article.
GOOSEREH8FES.
LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT IL THE WEST.
American auj English varieties that have been
fully tested, beth hardy and productive, and not La
bic to inildcw. Amongst them is the justly cclebra
ted Iioughton's Seeding, small fruit but Of best
quality, one of the most productive, never mldews
IN any locality. | have taken 30 quarts from SIM
gle bush at one picking. ! have had them mike
growth Of over five feet in a single seassn 1t re-
duires to be trained TO frame treilis-price OF
Hougeon's Seeding, bearing sizes, IS. each; 81
per dozen.