Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-27
From the Prairie Farmer,


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. lie divides 1t
between pie-plant, gooseberrics 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 own 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..
Cahoon 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 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 fiity-fye stalks, of which the longest
was two feet in length from root to leaf, 81 would
girt eight inches 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 OF ly
an average of those which have stood three years
and are allowed fair chance. Mr.. &. showed US
a stalk preserved in spirits which is five and a
half inches wide by twenty-seven long.
These large stalks are commonly tattened, but
the rest are not so by any means. W saw on the
same root, stalks as round as a rifle barrel; some
Of them were three feet in length and an inch and
halfin diameter, while others would be tlattened
so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
like the victoria q some Spcck led with purplish
red like the eggs of turkey We are satisfied thai:
nobody can tell a pic-plant by looking at the
stalks K leaves, without knowing more about it.
Mr.. c. mode of culture is to set the rows five
feet apart and feet apart in the rows. AT this
distance they cover the ground in single season.
He has set $500 plants this year, commencing
Al. a. 81 - h
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 sewhcre-getting about 81
per 100 pounds The cutting is 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 or time i'll 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 are getting to use it more
and more each season; and we have this very
summer detected ourselves i'll preferring 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
pie-pant roots, and can suit all purchasers with
the genuine article.
GOOsEBERRsES.
LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT IL THE WEST.
American and English varieties that have been
fully tested, both hardy and productive, and not liza
BILE to mildew. Amongst them il the justly celebra
ted IIoughtom's Seeding, a small fruit but of best
qusHty, one Of the most productive, never mldews
in any locality. have taken 20 quarts from u sin
gle bush at one picking | have had them make a
growth of over five feet in single seassn 1t re
quircs TO be trained frame a trellis.-Prce of
iiougetons Seeding, bearing Sizes IS. each or 2
per Dozen
Evergrecns.-Over 1000, from to 3 feet high.
Balsam and Norway firs, Spruce, Pine, HemIock,
aud Arbour Vitae These have grown in my garden
from three TO five years. and be transplanted
with much certainty Of growing, as currant-
Price As. to Is each.
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