Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.”

Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.

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.

Italy aspires to go on without foreign produce.

Need I say, after that, that quite to the contrary of what we are told about the British agriculturists becoming “meat-makers” instead of “wheat-growers,” no corresponding increase of live stock took place during the last twenty-five years.