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higher prices for it, they work like slaves. But it 

 must be remembered that in order to obtain the same 

 amount of produce under glass, in greenhouses, the 

 work of three men only, working fifty-five hours a week, 

 is required in Jersey for cultivating one acre of land 

 under glass. 



But I must refer my readers to the excellent work 

 of my friend, B. Seebohm Rowntree's Land and Labour : 

 Lessons from Belgium, London (Macmillan), 1910, a 

 strong volume of more than 600 pages, which is the 

 result of several years of laborious studies. It is full 

 of figures and personal observations, and will be con- 

 sulted with advantage for all the questions dealing 

 with the economical life of Belgium. 



L. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS THE SCILLY 

 ISLANDS. 



The excellent state of agriculture in Jersey and 

 Guernsey has often been mentioned in the agricultural 

 and general literature of this country, so I need only 

 refer to the works of Mr. W. E. Bear (Journal of the 

 Agricultural Society, 1888 ; Quarterly Review, 1888 ; 

 British Farmer, etc.) and to the exhaustive work of 

 D. H. Ansted and R. G. Latham, The Channel Islands, 

 third edition, revised by E. Toulmin Nicolle, London 

 (Allen), 1893. 



Many English writers certainly not those just 

 named are inclined to explain the successes obtained 

 in Jersey by the wonderful climate of the islands and 

 the fertility of the soil. As to climate, it is certainly 

 true that the yearly record of sunshine in Jersey is 

 greater than in any English station. It reaches from 

 1,842 hours a year (1890) to 2,300 (1893), and thus 



