The result was that “mammoth farms” had to be broken up into small farms, and that the Iowa farmers (after a terrible crisis of short duration--everything is rapid in America) took to a more intensive culture.
Kropotkin explains how large farms were divided into smaller ones after a crisis in Iowa's agriculture.
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