The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-03
ROUND ABOUT CAPE COD
BILL NYE WRITES OF BUzzARD'S
BAY AND BOSTON.

BAY AND BOSTON.
A Few Agricultural Notes Gathered from
Great Minds and Heard - the Out
side-A Little AFFAIR with ! Boston
Herdic Driver.
copyright, 1891, by Edgar w. Nye.1
CAPE Con, Mass.-Barnstable county,
which is coextensive with Cape Cod, is
the easternmost county of Massachu-
sets and has an area OF 900 miles. II
consists Of q peninsula which is sixty
miles long, terminating in Cape Cod. Il
is bounded on the east and south by the
Atlantic ocean and on the west by Buzz
yards bay and the Cleveland boom
which juts up against it. The soil is
mostly light and sandy, producing the
resinous germ Of the John pine and the
bright red boxberry. Dairy products,
corn and wool, flourish here to some ex-
tent, and the little Farmers Alliance ut
Buzzard's Bay, Of which Mr.. Jefferson,
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Glider are mem
bers, meeting on the first and third
Tuesdays OF each month, furnishes q
most entertaining place to go for an
evening.
There you will hear Of the ravages Of
the curculio and what the prospects are
for ensilage and persifage this fall Mr..
Jefferson keeps 1900 head Of cows on his
Louisiana place, and it is said raises his
calves on condensed milk. He loves
dearly to fool with agriculture. He
Rays that he is very fond Of tho country
and enjoys heartily the processes Of veg
stable growth. A paper read by him at
the Buzzard's Bay Chapter, No. S32, Of
the Farmers Alliance, on 'The Propaga-
ton, Growth and Decay Of the Dried
Apple Among the Pie Eating Dynasties
Of the Old World" is said to have been
full Of bon mots. statistics and unusual
words.
On rainy days, when Mr.. Jefferson
cannot work on the farm, he may often
be seen in an oilskin coat digging for
angleworms, while near by you will see
Mr.. Cleveland with an old peach can al
most filed with these delicious insects.
The two start of together, and are often
gone all day fishing in Buzzard's bay,
Buttermilk bay or some Of their tribu.
taries. Trout come down into the salt
water for the shrimps and also, Liudge,
for the breeze and change Of jcsne, so
that often the brook trout and sea bass,
mackerel, weakfish, bluefsh, ETC., are
caught in the same waters. All sorts Of
sea food, from the large, aromatic cod
fish Of commerce to the kippered her.
ring Of the workaday world, are found
here in the front dooryard Of the great
comedian.
It is rather low of course to accept Of
mans hospitality and then speak light
~ Of his agriculture, but l must say
that those members Of the Buzzard's
Bay Farmers Alliance, Chapter 832,
whom ! met, including those I have
named, and also Mr.. Booth and the
Elder Couldock, did not fool me with
their farmer talk for a single moment.
did know something about farming, so
| was not permitted to join the Alliance.
| was permitted, however, to look over
some Of the papers prepared by these
gentlemen, and ! say that If such men
dAO w WAclU Lu0 UtAduCO Va pOWCE al %
the UNDERMINING Of our national fabric
will become very porous indeed.
Mr.. Cleyeland's paper on ''How to Air
an Asparagus Bed" showed that the most
profound craftsmanship may be con-
nected very often with the most pitiable
ignorance regarding farm work. People
never do have to air an asparagus bed.
Mr.. Booth, who has been visiting here
this summer, and who knows very lit
tie regarding agriculture, was admitted
BY card, while was shut out. He fol-
lowed Mr.. Cleveland's paper with . dis
cussion regarding Spring and Fall APP
plication Of Mayonnaise Dressing in the
Cultivation Of Asparagus" When people
talk that way about growing simple
garden truck and are given life men,
bership in the Alliance, whilst one like
myself, who farmed it successfully a.
long as his wife's money held ont, and
who, therefore, ought to know some
thing regarding agriculture, is not per-
mitted to join the debate, it naturally
has tendency to embitter one.