Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-11
From the Prairie Farmer, Sent. 1855.

From the Prairie Farmer Sept. 1855.
Mr.. Cahoon has a farm of six acres, all told, on
which he eontriveS 10 get pretty fair living, If
we can judge from appearances. He divides it
between pie-plant, goosebcrries, currants, ever
green's, and flowers
But the pie-plant is the thing here He has a.
bout three acres in this root, all ofhs own seed
! ling 1t stands on ground which was few years
1 ago 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 so feet apart and three feet
deep, and covered them. Theywere made offour
pieces of timber. The whole was given one coat
of manure and no more; since which it is dry G.
nough for a wet time, and wet enough for dry
one, and will produce anything which is willing
| to grow reasonable land. We counted on
one root ffty-five stalks, of which the longest
was two feet i'll length from root to leaf, q would
! cirt 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.. c. showedus
"a stalk preserved in spirits which is five and
| half inches wide by twenty -scyen 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 an inch and
Il hafin diameter, while others would be fattcncd
so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some arc green, some reddish
! like the victoria * some spcckled with purplish
red like the eggs of turkey. We satisfied that
nobody can tell pie-plant by looking Mt the
stalks * leaves without knowing more about it,
| Mr. c. mode of culture is to set the rows five
feet apart and feet apart III the rows. At this
distance they coverthe ground in single season.
| He has set $500 plants this year, commencing
tba nttIp he nf He cutS
about three days in the week, cutting aboutfour
or five hundred pounds per day He puts up in
boxes or balls, and sells in Milwaukee Chicago,
Detroit, Buffalo, or elscwhere-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 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 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 State Fair with his
pie-plant roots, and can suit all purchasers with
the genuine article.
GOOsEBERgsaEs.
LARGEST AND BEsT ASSORTMENT IN THE WEST.
American and English varieties that have been
fully tested, both hardy and productive, and not liza
BILE TO mildcw. Amongst them is the justly ceebra
ted Houghtons Seeding, small fruit but OF best
quality, one of the most productive, never mdews
in any locality. l have taken 20 quarts from sin
gle bush at one picking. l have had them make
growth of over five feet in single seassn. 1t re-
quires to he trained to frame trellis.Price Of
lIougcon's Seeding bearing sizes, IS each or 81
per Dozen
Evcrgrecns.-Over 1000, from 2 to s feet high
nol, Nnr a,