They smile when we boast about the rotation system, having permitted us to take from the field one crop every year, or four crops each three years, because their ambition is to have six and nine crops from the very same plot of land during the twelve months.
Kropotkin highlights the ambition of some farmers to achieve multiple harvests from the same land within a year.
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