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and so afflicted by disease as to disable him from 

 working a whole day through. An acre of land 

 was let to him on condition of his stall-feeding a 

 cow, building a shed for her, and making a tank for 

 her liquid manure. At first his neighbors ridiculed 

 him for keeping his cow under shelter all the year 

 round, saying it would be unhealthy. But his an 

 swer was that some one had lent him 5 toward 

 buying a cow on these conditions, and he would try 

 them. Eminent agriculturists, hearing of this poor 

 man s case, went to see how he was succeeding with 

 his cow. They found her perfectly healthy, after 

 being stall-fed three years and a half, and that from 

 the butter he had sold he had soon paid off the loan 

 of 5, and had got a second cow on half an acre of 

 pasture, but he told them he had had to apply twice 

 to the farrier for the pastured cow, but never for 

 that which was stall-fed, while she gave a third 

 more butter than the other. This land was worked 

 with the spade, and thus was made to yield a suc 

 cession of green and succulent crops for summer 

 use, with abundant store for winter consumption, 

 besides supporting a large family. Dunibrel s con 

 dition was improving annually. Yet in his case 

 there was a combination of two exceedingly discour 

 aging elements ill-health, and spade-husbandry, 

 the most laborious description of agricultural toil. 

 Its superior value was manifest in making a sick 

 man entirely comfortable. 



More remarkable than any of these cases is that 

 of a farmer who rose from nothing into absolute in 

 dependence, though born without either hands or 



