As to the different degrees of fertility of the soil--always the stumbling-block of those who write about agriculture--the fact is that in market-gardening the soil is always made, whatever it originally may have been.
Kropotkin asserts that in market gardening, the soil's original fertility is less important than how it is managed and improved.
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