The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 24, 1916, Page 7, Image 7
UNDINE.
^ Peaceful Little Town is Now the
Scene of Bitter Fighting.
"Undine, smallest of cities with
one of the largest and most determined
campaigns of the world-war
based upon it, the centre from which
'i the whole Italian attack in the east
^ is directed, against Triest, Goriza and
Villach, lies in a stretch of country
avon ?n Ttoiv fnr its natural
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beauties, its vivid colorings, and luxurious
climate," begins a war geography
sketch just prepared by the
National Geographic society at Washington.
"The city is situated in a
1 fertile, highly cultivated plain on the
I Roja canal, between the head of the
Alps, 84 miles by rail northeast of
^ Venice, and within less than 40 miles
of the Italian battle line.
"The railroad which supplies the
Italian side of the whole front runs
into Undine, whence it leaves in four
branches, north, south, northeast, and
< southeast. The southeastern branch
joins the Austrian system between
Goriza and Gradisca, the first of
which towns has given its name to
one of the most bitterly contested
and longest drawn out battles of all
^ times. Thus the quiet little city, a
commission centre for the rich agricultural
country around, a quaint,
old-fashioned place, has become headquarters
for one of the great modern
armies, a vast supply depot, and a
< confused, hustling metropolis for
wo^Knoinooa "Re fore the war. it
rat'uusuivwvi ? ~ _
numbered eome 25,000 inhabitants.
"Silk-spinning, from cocoons
in the district and in neighboring
Austrian Friuli, was the leading industry
of Undine, that and the care
of tourists stopping enroute to the
Tyrol health resorts and to the wild
1 1 ways of the Dolonites. It also had
eome manufacture of linen, cotton,
. hats, and paper. Industry in Undine,
H however, was of minor importance.
\ Principally, it was an agreeable, picvturesque
station on the road from
p Venice to Klagenfurt, Austria, and
thence to Vienna. Now, the little
r * city ranks with Boulogne and Stras'
burg as a great war camp."
Canning Garden Products.
L Our garden was such a surprise to
1 our neighbors last year that' it may
B help others in planning and working
B a garden to know how it was managed.
The garden is 107x62 feet, and is
comparatively new ground, only haying
been worked three years, is sandy
soil on somewhat of a hillside,
and only had one hundred pounds of
cotton seed meal to fertilize during
the entire year. February 1 I planted
two rows?62 feet?of mustard and
two rows of turnips, in beds. I use
the flat rows except for early plantr
ing, and think best to use beds. From
this we gathered salad every day for
? tnnnth?eav? auite a lot to the
neighbors and sold 35 cents worth.
I also planted two rows of turnips,
two double rows of Alaska peas, one
row beets, one row radish, and set
out four rows with Bermuda onion
plants and one row of lettuce plants
at same time. From the peas we
t gathered one-half gallon every day
for ten days, had beets also every
day during the summer, and plenty
of turnips, onions, etc., and canned
some beets.
, > v...
I have a home canner and can more
r> ' vegetables than we can use. When
the English peas were gathered I
planted brown Crowder peas, and
wish I had kept an account of just
what was gathered from them?it
was more than I ever saw from so
small a place. They were planted
flat and earth drawn to them as they
grew, making them stand the drouth
well.
When the Crowder peas finished
bearing (August 14) I had the place
* spaded real close and deep and made
shallow trenches and planted Irish
nrttntnoc nnvAred lisrhtlv. then cover
?
ed with pine straw about one foot
deep, and we had fine potatoes all
fall, and are still getting potatoes
from this bed.
The seed Irish potatoes were saved
from the spring planting. February
14 I planted nine rows?4 6 feet long
??of Triumph Irish potatoes and used
no fertilizer at all. I had the ground
plowed very deep and left flat, then
took the hoe and laid off rows and
planted potatoes and covered with
the hoe. I do not approve of using
r- a plow to cover potatoes. I never let
the grass grow in them at all. They
were never plowed, but dirt drawn
^ to them often with the hoe and spadW
ed between rows once.
When the potatoes were about
through making I planted prolific
corn between the rows, and when it
was about six inches high gathered
the potatoes?with the hoe?and
pulled dirt to corn. By the time the
I corn had the second working I had
the place level, which put the corn
very deep and helped it to stand the
dry, hot weather. We gathered one^
half gallon Irish potatoes almost
every day from May 18 until July.
From the corn we had roasting
ears every dav as long as it was tender,
canned ten cans corn, and had
^ corn to put in twenty-four cans of
y
vegetable soup that I made and canned.
I put up in all thirty-eight
three-pound cans of vegetable souj-.
I make soup with corn, okra, cabbage,
onions, Irish potatoes, beans
and butter beans; boil with piece of
I bacon or soup bone two hours, then
seal in three-pound cans and boil two
hours longer. This is delicious, and
is ready for the table, having only to
be heated to make a nice fresh vegetable
soup.
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two weeks during the summer and
was never without roasting ears during
the entire summer.
The secret of gardening is to keep
planting. Even before one thing is
removed I plant something by the
side of it, and in taking up old plant
work dirt to young plant.
Our tomatoes were the wonder of
the entire neighborhood, and many
came to see for themselves, as they
could not believe the seemingly unreasonable
reports that they heard
from our tomatoes. I planted improved
Ponderosa and Brimmer.
There is no question about the
Brimmer being the finest table tomato
growm. I planted seed in February
in boxes and kept in kitchen by
window, and when they were quite
small transplanted to three-pound
cans. I melted the ends out of cans,
then with a wire cutter cut cans open
and tied together with string, placed
on boards, filled cans with good rich
soil and set plant in each can. As
snnn as daneer of frost was over I
removed string, pulled can from ball
of earth and placed in ground.
The plant was then ready to grow
off rapidly. When the plants were
about one foot high I removed earth
from plant and sprinkled one handful
of cotton seed meal and tablespoonful
of^lime; then placed a fivefoot
stake tfy each plant and kept all
trimmed to one stalk, tying about
every six inches.
From six rows I canned seventyfive
cans of tomatoes, seventy-five
three-pound cans of okra and toma- ,
toes, put in vegetable soup above
mentioned, put up twelve bottles of
ripe tomato catsup, six bottles green
tomato catsup, besides six threepound
cans of mixed pickle that had
green tomatoes in> it and six cans of
green tomato pickle, and ate tomatoes
three times a day from May until
frost, November 1. Many of the
plants died during the drouth, as
they were not watered at all, but a
few near the house that were shaded,
kept growing.
I lengthened the sticks, making
them five feet higher, and the plants
grew to the top of them?ten feet ,
high and bearing to the top. The ,
tomatoes measured 14% inches and
borne in clusters of from four to >
eight of that size. I planted them
between rows that had turnips, and
pulled the earth to them until by
mrfdunmmfir thev looked as though
they were planted on beds.
My garden was only plowed one
time, and that before a seed was
planted, but I had the ground spaded
deep between the rows.
I planted two hundred early cabbage
plants February 1, and as soon
as the plants began to grow put two ;
tablespoonsful of cotton seed meal
by each plant, and the cabbage were
extra fine and lasted until late in 1
summer. i
At the last working of cabbage I
set out collards between cabbage 1
rows, and when cabbage had about '
all been cut, planted Keckley's 1
sweet watermelon seed where cab- 1
bage was cut, and only flat weeded
after that, and we had as many nice
melons as we could use. '
The last of September I spaded
between the collard rows and
sprinkled cotton seed meal by each
plant, and we are now eating nice
headed collards as white as cabbage. :
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in handful of cotton seed meal, let
stand two weeks*, then planted Chicago
pickling cucumbers, and from 1
this I canned thirty-six two-pound
cans of cucumber pickles, besides us- '
ing them in mixed pi'ckle.
You will notice I speak of "cans of
pickle." Possibly some of your read- ;
ers have not tried putting pickle in 1
tin cans; if not, try it this year. Just
put in cans fresh, pour in vinegar
(slightly diluted) and season, seal
and cook five minutes. The pickle 1
will be crisp and fine. You must 3
remove from the can as soon as opened.
1
In July I planted celery seed, and 5
the last of August set plants in deep '
trenches, which had been previously '
fertilized and spaded deep. As plants 1
grew I drew dirt to them, and we :
had nice blanched celery for Christ- *
mas. I also planted lettuce in fall 1
and transplanted, and had nice head- '
ed lettuce for Christmas.
Lettuce will not head unless it is
transplanted. I planted John L. English
peas, cucumbers, carrots, salsify, '
turnips, and mustard and white Ber- 1
muda onion seed in the fall.
My vegetables won first prize at
two county fairs for best collection
of fresh vegetables last fall. I also ;
won first prize at two county fairs ;
for best collection of vegetables canned
in glass.
I have sold three dozen two-pound
cans of tomatoes, four dozen threepound
cans okra and tomatoes, and
two dozen three-pound cans of beans,
besides have a quantity of canned N
vegetables on hand to last the family
until summer. I exchanged some
canned vegetables with my grocer for t1
canned meats, which, I think, is a
good plan to furnish the pantry with v
a variety, and is easier and cheaper
than trying to can meats at home. n
I sell enough canned goods to pay for
all the cans I use. In this way what
we use costs us practically nothing.
o
I do not try to sell fresh vegetables, w
as I consider it better management
to put it up and turn around in such
a way as to furnish the family the
year around with different things.
We cook a variety of vegetables every a
day.
Over the garden walk I made an S
arbor and planted Kentucky wonder n
beans by it, and from this arbor we a
gathered beans almost all summer, n
and as the first planting began to fail ?
I planted more by the side of them, B
and as the old vines died the new g
ones took hold, and we were not
g
without beans all summer, and canned
four dozen three-pound cans. I ^
only had two rows of white velvet b
okra, but we had more than we could
use, and canned one dozen cans, be- sides
using it in soup above described,
and okra and tomatoes.
I planted Chinese giant pepper,
and from it canned "pimento,"
also two bottles of green pepper
catsup, and three bottles
of ripe pepper catsup. From
one dozen stalks of red chili pepper
I put up six quarts of pepper sauce.
In this garden there was a storm pit,
and I had very deep holes spaded on
each side of pit and filled with new
earth and one handful of cotton seed
meal and let stand two weeks, then planted
cushaw seed, and from the
four hills we gathered twenty-four
nice cushaws. I laid a plank over
the pit and trained vines to cover it,
and made a beautiful as well as useful
spot. I planted butter beans
around the gallery and fence, and had
all we could use and some to can.
I would go to the garden very ^early
every morning and spend from one
to two hours working it, and in this
way I could keep up with the work
mwoolf a?H with the oY^ontinn of
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spading and one plowing never hired [_
any work done, and found quite a lot
of pleasure in it. I believe in J
good seed?do not try to economize T
on seed. I order all seed from a re- $
liable dealer, and buy the best they lc
list. I plant the year around, and j
never let the grass grow. Select a
small piece of ground, fertilize well,
spade and hoe continually. Never v
stop planting and working and you S
will be repaid a thousand fold.?Miss
Everette Bozeman; in Home and ?
F\irm.
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Four Rules for Right Reading.
A hint to readers that will, perhaps,
prove far more helpful than five
foot bookshelves and pigskin libraries,
is contributed by Laura Spencer
Porter to the February Woman's
Home Companion.
''Let us take Gibbon's practice,"
she says, "as a valuable first rule, li
measuring our own ideas, our expe- x
rience, our knowledge, or, it may be, ?
our ignorance of the subject of any u
given great book.
"And as a second rule, let us find
out from some good reference book ai
or biography the main facts about a;
the life of the author we are reading ^
and something about the times in 0]
which he lived. t<
"As a third rule, let us make notes
on all that we read seriously, notes, }
[ mean, as we go, for it is but poor a
flattery to let a friend do all the talk- c<
ing and to make no comment on what o:
he says. This practice of making ^
notes is, I do believe, very essential
to a right use of books. I know there 1
are those who think it a bad thing to
mark a book; but to have too nice an -j
eye in this matter is to value paper
more than friendship. Let us mark 2
especially the places that give us
fresh thought, stimulus, pleasure; let
us mark those with which we agree
and those with which we disagree, o1
stating our own views clearly.
"As a fourth rule: Just as soon as
we feel that we know even two or A
n-i roo err a a t hnnkfi let ns rnmnare tl
Hi* W vu<v WV/VfAkW JC
them with each other. Very much as ^
fine people agree on fundamentals so a:
we shall find these great authors hi
agreeing, as a rule, in essentials, yet *5
all expressing themselves how differ- .
ently. Moreover, it is just in these tj
differences of expression that the tl
main distinctions of style lie, and it t*
is noting them carefully that we
shall better appreciate the personality
of a writer. Read Stevenson's dis- 2'
course, for instance, on 'Crabbed Age F
w
and Youth,' and compare it with
Bacon's essay, 'Of Youth and Age.' fC
How in the very wording and manner
of speaking the two men seem almost ^
to appear before one."
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f;
"Willie, you haven't said whether c
you thanked Mr. Carter for taking
you out for a ride." "
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I didn't tell you, because he said, p
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uditor. This will save time for all
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11 able-bodied male persons between '
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