The newly freed workers, seeking to become self-employed tenant farmers(直接服务于商人的,没有奴隶主这一环了) rather than wage laborers, made direct arrangements with merchants for supplies.
However, wood chips occupy (占)less than half the volume of the branches from which they are made. 就是阐述了一个事实!!!
Transportation costs from the logging site to the factory that are determined by volume of cargo would be lower (if the conversion into chips is done at the logging site) rather than at the factory.
Few(主语) if any (插入语)of (the RDS radio stations 主语 )that began broadcasting in Verdland after 1994 broadcast (谓语) to people with RDS-equipped radios living in areas not previously reached by RDS stations.修饰地区
应该是:几乎没有RDS电台(1994年后的那些)向那些人广播(那些人是之前也没有被普及进去的)就算增加了 也覆盖不到
times the mass 倍+the+n.