Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The resources of science, both in enlarging the circle of our production and in new discoveries, are inexhaustible.”

For improving our methods of culture to that extent, we surely need not divide the land into one-acre plots, and attempt to grow what we are in need of by everyone’s separate individual exertions, on everyone’s separate plot with no better…

It is time to conclude, and, for every unprejudiced mind, the conclusion is self-evident.

It is a fact that chemical manures, without organic manure, seldom prove to be sufficient.

They smile when we boast about the rotation system, having permitted us to take from the field one crop every year, or four crops each three years, because their ambition is to have six and nine crops from the very same plot of land during…