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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: I mean the almost horticultural treatment of our corn crops, which is widely practised in the far East, and begins to…

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I mean the almost horticultural treatment of our corn crops, which is widely practised in the far East, and begins to claim our attention in Western Europe as well.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin discusses the horticultural methods applied to corn crops in the East that are gaining attention in Western Europe.

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