American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-03-28

Only through centuries of careful
work with hoe and pillow has 1t been
possible to create the garden that ex-
tends from Verona, where the Adige
river strikes the Venetian plain, to the
impossible mountain valleys many
miles away where he absolute absence
of soil forbids any attempt al farm
ing.
The fields on either side of the rlv-
er are broken into small lots, thou
sands being as small as q city block;
many are much smaller In order to
completely fill n segment of rock-lock-
ed earth. On these plots, that have
been leveled with infinite care, the
farmer of the Trentino grows grain,
garden truck, grapes, and often other
fruit. The grapevines are kept pruned
to about four and a half feet high for
the main stem, which grows to the
thickness of a mans wrist, while the
tondrils are trained onto sticks, or In
many cases to trees that are kept
pruned down to a thick stump six or
seven feet high with small branches
half an inch In thickness protruding
Ill IL Sltu1 IIbih Aht hbibi
Ancient consigllo Castle.
During the middle ages Trent was n
typical fortified city crowned with an
old feudal castle. Built In 1870, this
) stronghold, Castle Consigllo, has come
: down to the present generation In a
beautiful state of preservation. While
the Austrians held Trent the place
4 - - Irt.I 90 fn.Nn tniI
Ceasare Battistl, native Of Trent, an
0 ardent pro-Italian who had the nerve
i to enlist in the Italian army against
Austria, was shot in the courtyard OF
the castle, and Is today the town and
y the Italian nations martyr.
Stored In the wonderful old castle
were $4,000 captured Austrian rifles
Piles of gas masks, trench tools, muir
derous trench knives nnd other odd
and ends of fighting mans equiptnen
were stacked In several Of the larg'
A. rooms.
ia In one OF the main corridors was
re- typical Austrian torture machine.
III consisted of two rings, the first abou
n nine inches from the floor and Tn
NJ second about -four feet above grounf
FNNRNN
m The practice was TO fasten q prison
er's ankles to the lower ring by mean
no OF a piece of rope, while the unfortl
I'd nate mans hands were tied benin
or him through the upper ring. Tn
Ct. threw all the prisoners weight on IN
.st wrists and ankles. Usually a ma
rs. tainted afte- several hours.
w. Inspection of the old Conslglio ca
X tie revealed how the war machine
as the sixteenth century-for the cast
he itself was a fort-had been made
serve the purposes of he twentie
It'll century war lords.
ed In the highest roo of the place,
an circular chamber Of the tallest tow'
:. was all that remained of a Germi
,sa wireless outfit. The operators b.
are made themselves comfortable In I
of damp old place by putting storm wi
of dows in the loOpholes that were or
we inaIly cut for the convenience Of GRO
lin. bow men.
ocs To get to the tower one has to pa
,er- through a frescocd courtyard wh'
,er- mC1 were haL red centuries ago. Ado
five or six fcs Il from the old gallo'
has a double affair, runs a sheltered g
.om Iery from which the dukes and Tn
.lno courtiers, sheltered from the wealth
could witness the Execution.
Some of the public squares In
cry city OF Trent have fine old buiidii
and In Italian architecture, decorated FIR
, of ground to roof with gorgeous frescf
ties the coIoriRg Of which Is still vivid
ully