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(wheat, barley, oats, rye, beans, and peas) occupied 2,199 

 acres, wheat leading with 1,700; green crops, including 

 potatoes, turnips, mangolds, cabbages, and vetches, 

 7,816, potatoes leading with 7,000; clover and grasses under 

 rotation, 5,247; permanent pasture, 4,053; flax, 3; small 

 fruits, 158; and uncropped arable land, 38. Horses num- 

 bered 2,360; cattle, 12,073; sheep, 305; and pigs, 7,618. 

 In that same year there were exported, into England alone, 

 2,300 cows and calves, or a little over one-sixth the en- 

 tire number; 25 tons of butter; 1,863,165 bushels of po- 

 tatoes, an average of 266 bushels to every acre under cul- 

 tivation; 86,000 dozen eggs; 74,969 bushels of fruit and 

 vegetables, to the value of $400,000; the whole footing up 

 to the snug little income of $3,700,000, to be distributed 

 among the 2,600 farmers owning or cultivating land. It is 

 a noticeable fact that, while the cattle were valued at 

 £40,000, the potatoes were placed at £447,134, or eleven 

 times that sum. 



The above figures are equally applicable to Guernsey, 

 except that there a greater amount of fruit is grown, the 

 yearly export of grapes footing up to more than 500 tons. 

 Tomatoes are raised in immense quantities for the Lon- 

 don market, but no reliable statistics were available. As 

 compared with our best varieties, they are very inferior 

 in size and quality. The vines are trained up against the 

 sides of the houses, and continue bearing sometimes more 

 than one year. The principal fruits are grapes, apples and 

 pears. Jersey cider was at one time so celebrated that the 

 agricultural society of the Department of the Lower Seine 

 in France sent over a commission to learn the methods of 

 manufacture; but the apple trees are now giving way to the 



