But a closer acquaintance with British agriculture as a whole discloses many features of inferiority.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But a closer acquaintance with British agriculture as a whole discloses many features of inferiority.”
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Kropotkin critiques the overall quality of British agriculture despite its strengths.
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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.
Few books have exercised so pernicious an influence upon the general development of economic thought as Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population exercised for three consecutive generations.
Altogether, the worker is much more at the mercy of the dealer or the employer, and the employer is at the mercy of the wholesale dealer.
It is a fact that chemical manures, without organic manure, seldom prove to be sufficient.

