They are well cultivated, well manured, and upon them an average of from twenty-eight to thirty bushels to the acre is obtained; and upon these twenty-five or thirty acres out of 1,000 the world superiority of British agriculture is based.
Kropotkin emphasizes that the perceived superiority of British agriculture is based on a small fraction of well-cultivated land.
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To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.
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He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.
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