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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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The crop was thus more than doubled by the choice of seeds and by planting them separately eight inches apart.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights the significant impact of selective planting on crop yields.

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