The founder of La Ferla’s farm is a Sicilian, Antonino the Ferla, that arrived in Calabria, he feels pleased of the water wealth of this county and willing to cultivate rice, already cultivating in Sicily, moves himself with the family, with Orazio young guy. Orazio, very soon, was forced to leave for army; it is the time of the Great War (1915/1918). After several vicissitudes towards the end of the war it was captured and withheld in one German farm; this is an important phase of its life because even if prisoner he acquired attitude and also agrarian technical more advances than those practiced in our Regions. On his back from war he didn’t find the father and a young sister any more demolished from the epidemic of "Spanish" fever in Trigna house. Orazio, upset from these prematurely losses becomes head of the family. At this time in Trigna farm, like in all S. Eufemia swampy plain the malaria is raging. Orazio participates, together to other agriculturists, supported from the government of the age, to the plain reclamation through the excavation of great channels that were realized manually.