Identifier: ohiofarmer1131unse (find matches)
Title: The Ohio farmer
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: (Columbus, Harvest Pub. Co., etc., 1899-)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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rs were tormented withtaxes; carriage roads, schools andchurches were scarce. In 1901 Calabriawas inhabited by 1,370,000 persons,scattered in villages and hamlets; 250communes, already small in them-selves, are divided into four fractionalparts, distant from tfie main center. Ofthese localities it is difficult to obtaininformation because it is- difficult toreach tbem. The Calabrian writer,Mandalari, thus describes them: They are groups of conical strawhuts, erected without mortar, with akind of black cement, a mixture ofearth and sand. In all these dwellingsbread is lacking; potatoes and fruitform the chief articles of food. Thepeople lead a pastoral life, followingtheir sheep, pigs and cows. In winterstuff for clothing is lacking, so theyresort to the skins of animals. Thepeasants lack dwellings; it is not easyfor them to build tbe most modesthut, since anything, however mean,that shelters the poorest bed is sub-ject to taxes. There is no money topay these, and there follows a fresh
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CALABRIAN WOMEN. She wished to keep her earrings as acherished remembrance. After fourdays of effort she heard a plaint andfancied it might be the faithful cat.The soldiers excavated with zeal, butinstead of the cat they found thechild, still alive, but in a most pitia-ble state. The childs life was saved,but the mother went mad. Such anec-dotes are legion. The disaster of Sep-tember, 8, 1907, was tremendous. Ofthe 413 communities of which Cala-bria consists, 212 were injured; Pizzoand Monteletme were destroyed. Theprovince of Catanzaro which was moststricken had 20 communes destroyed,Cosenza 10, and Reggio Calabria three.The buried dead amount to 789, thewounded,over three thousand. The sur-vivors, bereft of everything, can notbe numbered. In Calabria riches arerare. There is a uniform level; miserymay be said to tbe confounded withprosperity, prosperity with poverty.To be a proprietor means to have alittle bouse, a small field, and stock ofprovisions. The house falls, and buriesever

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