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Agriculture cannot be carried on without additional hands in the summer; but it still more needs temporary aids for improving the soil, for tenfolding its productive powers.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin argues that agriculture requires additional labor during summer and temporary aids for soil improvement.
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