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Do we not know, indeed, that British crops average twenty-eight to thirty bushels of wheat per acre, while in France they reach only from seventeen to twenty bushels?
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin compares wheat yields in Britain and France, illustrating the perceived superiority of British agriculture despite its issues.
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