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that upon a lorry cart, and lets the liquid 

 manure drip through a trough pierced with 

 holes on to the pasture already grazed. 



Sometimes, so quick is the growth of 

 vegetation in the summer on well-favoured 

 sites, that one potato crop is followed by 

 another, but more often by tomatoes, roots, 

 or seeds. Strawberries and grapes are grown 

 to a certain extent, and when the former drop 

 to 2d. a pound a grower told me they ceased 

 to pay. 



It is well for the stock-keeper that Nature 

 is kind, for with rents from five to ten times 

 greater than in England, with feeding stuffs 

 more expensive, and the price of milk and butter 

 no higher, the cows of the Jersey farmer would 

 have to be exceptionally good to pay for the 

 rent of the land on which thev graze. 



He sets little store by meadow hay. Why 

 should he ? for the grass is growing nearly all 

 the year round, and large hay crops are taken 

 from "seeds" — grass and clover. Straw, 

 though, has to be imported and paid for at the 

 high rate of £3 a ton, and the Jersey farmer 

 seems to spend a good deal on artificial manures, 

 as well as on the purchase of bran, cake, and 

 oats, which, of course, have to be imported. It 



