“The true yield of business is determined less by the size of the estate than by the sum of the investment.”

— Albrecht Thaer

Thaer cited in: Marion W. Gray (2000). Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres During the German Enlightenment. p. 267.

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German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory… 1752–1828

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