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.
Kropotkin notes the advancements in agricultural productivity in the Campine district due to irrigation and livestock management.
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