I mean the almost horticultural treatment of our corn crops, which is widely practised in the far East, and begins to claim our attention in Western Europe as well.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I mean the almost horticultural treatment of our corn crops, which is widely practised in the far East, and begins to…”
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Kropotkin discusses the horticultural methods applied to corn crops in the East that are gaining attention in Western Europe.
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