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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 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 2,300 horses solely used for 

 agriculture and breeding. 



Moreover, about 100 bulls and 1,600 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 and butter have 



* See Appendix L. 



