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gave her both and something more. 

 Today, after years in bed and in a 

 wheel-chair, she is the happy, busy, 

 house- mistress, -able to walk about 

 the fields, joying to work in the dirt 

 with her own hands, and almost abject 

 in devotion to her poultry -yard and 

 her pigs. 



Both are mighty important in farm 

 economy. The one hard and fast rule 

 is that this farm must feed itself. 

 There are exceptions, of course, in 

 favor of groceries, butcher's meat and 

 wheat flour. It has its own rye flour 

 and corn meal, as well as hams, bacon, 

 fowls of every sort, and fruits and veg- 

 etables in profusion. There are fresh 

 eggs the year round, true gilt-edge 

 butter, Jersey cream, milk and butter- 

 milk. Nothing is ever sold; any sur- 

 plus is given away. The marvel is that 



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