More than thirty years ago I mentioned in Nature the increase of the crops obtained by a Russian landlord who used to place at a certain height above his experimental field telegraph wires, through which an electric current was passed.
Kropotkin recalls a historical example of agricultural innovation involving electricity.
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To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
Every farmer is more or less of a gardener, and he gives free scope to his inventive powers for devising some cheap type of greenhouses.
And yet it is easy to prove that both are totally erroneous: plenty of food could be grown on the territories of Western Europe for much more than their present populations, and an immense benefit would be derived from doing so.
We have already, in the facts mentioned in this chapter, an experimental basis for quite a number of means of improving our present methods of culture and of largely increasing the crops.
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