It must not be forgotten that the competition of American wheat has made the same havoc in the agriculture of most European countries--especially in France and Belgium; but in the last two countries the adaptations which were necessary to resist the effects of the competition have already taken place to a great extent.
Kropotkin points out that American wheat competition has negatively impacted agriculture across Europe.
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But now it is capable, thanks to the work of the Flemish peasants and to irrigation, to produce the food of one milch cow per acre--the dung of the cattle being utilised for further improvements.
It is time to conclude, and, for every unprejudiced mind, the conclusion is self-evident.
And at the same time we learn that immense quantities of land go every year out of culture, to be transformed into game reserves for rich Englishmen and foreigners.
Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.
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