Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-05
WARREN LEE GOSS
 HOME GARDEN ENTHUSIAST
One of Nations Famous Authors De- seribes Intensive Farmins-Proud of His Back Yard Crops.

Mention was made a short time ago
 that Warren Lee Goss. now of Ruthet- ford, N. J.. had had an accident in which he had badly injured his right 1 iiand, which he put out to, save him. self when he had a fall. That acci- dent happened, not in Rutherford, but in New York, where MT. Goss slipped while on the City Hall steps, where he goes every week to see a friend, and as business requires The hand is so much less painful that the band ages have been removed and Mir. Goss is now able to type his correspond enCe, by using one CT two fingers cau- ticusly.
 Former Norwich Resident. Everybody in Norwich knows of Mir. GosS as one of the nations successful l authors of war stories. as well as an ardent member of Sedgwicl1 Post, G. A. R., and once national patriotic in structor for the Grand Army. Until a sEort time before the death or his wife, who was the daughter of Rev. Henry Torbush a Norwich dentist, street, where the Alice building now stands. Of late years. Mr. Goss has made his home with his son. Harry
 T. Goss and the latter's wife. in Ru- therford.
 Home Gardening. r. Writing to a Norwich acquaintance about the home garden in which he has taken so much pleasure this sea son Mir. ~Goss, with characteffstie ilu- nor says: My garden? It is fifty feet by seyenty-f1ye in sizc. l. began by garden last fall by digging under the cornstalks. vines and weeds. be- sides leaves from the street trees. began planting in March. four beds carrots, another of head lettuce and ] two rows of string beans. When saw big bank of snow fafi on these beds, I thought l must be a. trifie E-I -R l-x ever, do any harm to them and had all the onions and beets and carrots and parsnips needed for my table and some over.
 T planted about twenty hills of pole limas and about the same of Old Homestead pole beans, and had a big crop-all we needed for the table un- til October 10th, and as you will see by list made by my daughter, some over.
 T planted my sweet corn pretty close-for want of room-and my daughter says she has gathered about two hundred ears from the garden. My earliest corn was the Little Yellow and sweet; the rest was a. variety known as dwarf White Cob Corey. very fine. I gathered my first corn the goth of July and my last late in October.
 "The best of my crop was health.
  there is in a drug store!
 The Joy of Digging. | "A garden. such as I have, can be cultivated and planted and spaded by putting in about half hour a 6ay. I hoe my garden a little more than ether people because ! like to do it. q know that am nearing my sec ond childhood. for I am so fond-Iike younger children-of digging in the dirti)
 'T forgot to tell you about my to- matoes. I planted about fifteen vines To give them sun. I drove down a stake at each vine and as they grew, tied the vines to the stakes. had a prodigous crop; all needed for my table, some to give away, and lots over, as you will see by my daughter's fifteen cents, it certainly paid to raise themi"
 Canned and Preserved.
 Accompanying MT. Goss's interest ins letter is list prepared by his daughter. Mrs. Harry Goss. of the Conserved" as one means of winning the war: CanAed-Tomatoes 12 quarts: string beans. quarts; lima beans, 1 quart: kidney beans. quart; corn. 1 quart; carrots ? quarts: beets 5 quarts; green tomato pickles, ' pints: grape jelly. 12 glasses; currant jelly, glasses.
 Intensive Farming.
 As Mir. Goss was born in Brewster, Mass, Aug. 19. 1885, consequently is now a busy and sprightly young per son of s2. he is setting a good exam pie to those owners of city yards who "crops" because they do not have the land Or the time, or are too old. or deem intensive farming too hard work