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one-third of the smallest English county. 

 Yet it produces enough food to feed a nation. 

 In one year its exports in potatoes alone 

 amounted to 53,100 tons, which were valued 

 on the quay of St. Helier at £356,305. 



Still more striking is what this island can 

 accomplish in stock-keeping. The cultivated 

 area of Jersey is 19,171 acres, and as the Jersey 

 farmer is a good husbandman, only 3000 of this 

 is allowed to remain permanent pasture. 

 The low - lying rich meadow - land only is 

 allowed to remain as grass-land, and if you 

 deduct from the arable land the acreage which 

 does not produce food for cattle, but produces 

 potatoes and tomatoes for human consump- 

 tion, I estimate that the 11,000 cattle in 

 Jersey are kept on less than an acre to a cow, 

 for besides this head of cattle to maintain, 

 there are some 2400 horses, and 5000 pigs as 

 well. 



Yet in England we farm on the principle 

 that it is necessary to have three acres of 

 land in order to keep one cow I 



I have said that Jersey should be the 

 paradise for small holders. Unfortunately, 

 however, whilst Nature is kind, the economic 

 arrangements of man are vile. The two 



