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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 23, 4 June 1913, Page 54

History is so rich in instances of great men triumphing over physical disabilities that we con hl fill a whole issue with them. Now and then, too, conies a flue story, of (he same kind from the humbler planes of life. For instance, the “Daily Chronicle” tells of an Essex farmer, a Mr J. Schwier, of Moreton. near Ongar, who {ooks after a thousand acres, a hundred COWS, six hundred sheep, and a good hay and straw business, mid is yet stone blind. And he docs all his own buying and selling, and is reputed as good a judge of hay and cattle as any nun

in the country round. There are many men in England who. possessing al! their senses, if not all their wits, complain that they cannot make farming pay.

The story of Mr. Schwier may prompt them to ask themselves whether the reiKon for failure may not .lie to some extent in shortcomings of their own.