Land is going out of culture at a perilous rate, while the latest improvements in market-gardening, fruit-growing and poultry-keeping are but a mere trifle if we compare them with what has been done in the same direction in France, Belgium and America.
Kropotkin highlights the alarming rate at which land is being abandoned for cultivation compared to advancements in other countries.
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