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In a few weeks nearly all the wheat crop, which was expected to beat all previous records, was lost; eight to ten bushels per acre of bad wheat were all that could be cropped.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “In a few weeks nearly all the wheat crop, which was expected to beat all previous records, was lost; eight to ten…”
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He describes the devastating loss of a wheat crop that was expected to be record-breaking.
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