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Weekending < Prices. 



Tons. s. d. 



April 2-30 210 30 11 



May 7 600 18 12 8 



,,14 1,250 15 12 



,,21 2,000 13 



,,28 5,500 10 3 8 



June 4 7,825 8 13 4 



,,11 9,200 658 



,,18 13,000 4 17 6 



,,25 9,650 4 8 10 



July 2 6,600 3 13 8 



,,9 1,900 2 18 6 



,,16 145 394 



,23 10 3 18 



Total 57,890 381,373 



The quantities of early potatoes exported varied 

 during the years 1901 to 1910 from 47,530 tons to 

 77,800 tons, and their value from 233,289 to 475,889. 



As to the fertility of the soil, it is still worse advo- 

 cacy, because there is no area in the United Kingdom 

 of equal size which would be manured to such an 

 extent as the area of Jersey and Guernsey is by means 

 of artificial manure. In the seventeenth century, as 

 may be seen from the first edition of Falle's Jersey, 

 published in 1694, the island " did not produce that 

 quantity as is necessary for the use of the inhabitants, 

 who must be supplied from England in time of peace, 

 or from Dantzic in Poland." In The Groans of the 

 Inhabitants of Jersey, published in London in 1709, 

 we find the same complaint. And Quayle, who wrote 

 in 1812 and quoted the two works just mentioned, 

 in his turn complained in these terms : " The quan- 

 tity at this day raised is quite inadequate to their 

 sustenance, apart from the garrison " (General View 

 of the Agriculture and the Present State of the Islands 



