The crop was thus more than doubled by the choice of seeds and by planting them separately eight inches apart.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The crop was thus more than doubled by the choice of seeds and by planting them separately eight inches apart.”
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Kropotkin highlights the significant impact of selective planting on crop yields.
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And the division and subdivision--the permanent subdivision--of functions has been pushed so far as to divide humanity into castes which are almost as firmly established as those of old India.
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.
We have already, in the facts mentioned in this chapter, an experimental basis for quite a number of means of improving our present methods of culture and of largely increasing the crops.
He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.

