Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-11-01
From the Pr1irie Farmer s

From the Prairie Farmer, Sept. 1855.
Mr.. Cahoon has farm of six acres, all told, on
which he contrives to get pretty fair living, ii
we can judge from appearances. He divides it
between pic-pant, gooseberries, currants, ever
green's, 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 few years
ago a marsh, covered with aders, 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 offour
pieces of timber. The whole was given one coat
of manure and no more; since which it is dry G.
nouch 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-fve stalks, of which the longest
was two feet in length from root to leaf, & would
| girt eight inches or more The others were of all
sizes down to fifteen inches in length and incl
| in diameter, tho the average would be twenty
inches long and four more in circumference
1 This root was not an unusual size, and was onl y
! an average of those which have stood three years
and are allowed a fair chance. Mr.. c.. showed us
stalk preserved in spirits which is five and a
half inches wide by twcnty-seven long.
! These large stalks are commonly flattencd, but
| the rest are not so by any means We saw on the
same root, stalks as round as a rife barrel some
of them were three feet i'll length and an inch and
a halfin diameter, while others would be tiattened
so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green some reddish
| like the victoria * some speckled with purplisl
red like the eggs of turkey. We are satisfied that
nobody can tell pie-plant by looking at the
stalks & leaves, without knowing more about it
Mr.. C.'s 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
/ To n- cat 2 r,lo nc MOI,
| the 10th and ending the 18th of May. He cuts
about three days i'll 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 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 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 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 preferring 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
pie-plant roots and can suit all purchasers with
the genuine article
GO0sEBERREEs.
LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT IN THE WEST.
American and English varieties that have been
fully tested both hardy and productive, and not a-
BILE to mildew. Amongst them is the justly cclebra
ted Houghton's Seeding, small fruit but of best
quality one of the most productive, never mdews
III any locality. / have taken 20 quarts from sin
gle bush at one picking. / have had them make a
growth of over five feet in single seassn. 1t re-
quires to be trained TO frame trellis.-Price of
Hougetons Seeding, bearing sizes, IS. each or 50
per dozen.
Evergreene.-Over 1000, from 9 to 8 feet high.
Balsam and Norway Firs, Spruce, Pine, Hemock
and Arbour Vitae. These have grown in my garden
from three TO five years, and can be transplanted
with much certainty of growing, currant.--
Price As. to So each.
Address, II. II. CAHCON.
Ken0sha, Wis,