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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Crops of from sixteen to twenty-three bushels per acre are considered good crops in Russia, while the average hardly…”

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Crops of from sixteen to twenty-three bushels per acre are considered good crops in Russia, while the average hardly reaches thirteen bushels, even in the corn-exporting parts of the empire.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin discusses agricultural yields in Russia compared to expectations.

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