Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-20
From the Prairie Farmer

L rom me ITutTte FdTWeT, ctU ICJo
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 1t
between pie-plant, gooseberries, currants, ever
greens, and flowers.
But the pie-piant is the thing h, re. He has a.
bout three acres in this root, all of his own seed
ling. 1t stands on ground which was few years
ago a marsh, covered with aldcrs, willows, and
water. Springs cropped to the surface just at
its upper edge and flooded the whole region. Mr..
Caloon put in drains 81 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 10 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 fitty-fve 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 not an unusual size, and was only
an average of those which have stood three years
and are allowed fair chance. Mr.. c. showed us
stalk preserved in spirits which is five and a
half inches wide by twenty seven long.
These large stalks are commonly iiattened, but
the rest are not so by any means. We saw on the
same root, stalks as round as a rifle barrel; some
of them were three feet in length and an inch and
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so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
like the victoria x some specklcd with purplish
red like the eggs of turkey. We are satisfied that
nobody can tell pie-plant by looking at the
stalks & leaves, without knowing more aboutlt 1t.
Mr.. C.'s mode of culture is to set the rows flve
feet apart and 3 feet apart i'll 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 III Milwaukee, Chicago,
| Detroit Buffalo, or esewhcre-gctting about J 4
per 100 pounds The cutting is continued tilltrost
comes In cutting he is guided by Judgment ia
king all from plant he thinks it can spare, and
going over the same ground 5 or time III a sea
SON Then in spring and fall he makes sale of
roots. He sold last spring 300 roots or more.
Any body can see that this pie-plant business is
not bad one. People are getting to use it more
and more each season; and we have this very
summer detected ourselves in prcferring 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
pic-plant roots, and can suit all purchasers with
the genuine article
GOesEREREsaEs.
LARGEST AND BEsr ASSORTMENT IL THE WEST.
American and English varieties that have been
fully tested both hardy and productive, and not la
BILE to mildew Amongst them Is the in tly ceebra
ted Houghton,s Seeding, small fruit but of best
quality one of the most productive, never m,ldewS
in any locality have taken 20 quarts from SIN
Gle bush at one picking. | have had them make Il
growth of over five feet in single seassn. II re-
quires TO he trained TO frame rellis.-lrice OF
lIougctons Seeding, bearing sizes, Is. each; or 3
per dozen.
Evergrccus.-Over 1000, from to feet high.
Balsam and Norway Firs Spruce, Pine, Hemlock,
and Arbour Vitae. These have grown III my garden
from three to five years, and can be transpanted
with Us much certainty of growing, as Il currant.-
Price is. to So each
Address, Il. n. SAAOON.
Kcuosha. wis.