90 FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. 



enter the harbour of St. Heller, and in twenty-four 

 hours they are loaded with potatoes and steer for 

 London, Southampton, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Scot- 

 land. From 50,000 to 60,000 tons of potatoes, valued 

 at from 260,000 to 500,000, according to the year, 

 are thus exported every summer; and, if the local con- 

 sumption be taken into account, we have at least 

 60,000 to 70,000 tons that are obtained, although no 

 more than from 6500 to 7500 acres are given to all 

 potato crops, early and late early potatoes, as is well 

 known, never giving as heavy crops as the later ones, 

 Ten to eleven tons per acre is thus the average, while 

 in this country the average is only six tons per acre. 



As soon as the potatoes are out the second crop of 

 mangold or of " three months' wheat " (a special variety 

 of rapidly growing wheat) is sown. Not one day is 

 lost in putting it in. The potato-field may consist of 

 one or two acres only, but as soon as one-fourth part 

 of it is cleared of the potatoes it is sown with the second 

 crop. One may thus see a small field divided into four 

 plots, three of which are sown with wheat at five or 

 six days' distance from each other, while on the fourth 

 plot the potatoes are being dug out 



The admirable condition of the meadows x and the 

 grazing land in the Channel Islands has often been 

 described, and although the aggregate area which is 

 given in Jersey to green crops, grasses under rotation, 

 and permanent pasture both for hay and grazing is 

 less than 11,000 acres, they keep in Jersey over 12,300 

 head of cattle and over 2300 horses solely used for 

 agriculture and breeding. 



Moreover, about 100 bulls and 1600 cows and heifers 

 are exported every year,* so that by this time, as was 

 remarked in an American paper, there are more Jersey 

 cows in America than in Jersey Island. Jersey milk 



* See Appendix J. 



