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But the soil was already exhausted, and when a disease came the wheat plants had no force to resist it.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But the soil was already exhausted, and when a disease came the wheat plants had no force to resist it.”
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Kropotkin points out that exhausted soil led to vulnerability against diseases affecting wheat plants.
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