or sales for home consumption. Both quantity and value have been 

 much greater in some previous season. Records kept from 1883 

 s'iow 77 800 tons, shipped in 1907, as the maximum quantity, 'and 

 487 642 in 1891 as the highest returns, although in the latter year the 

 quantity was about 1 1 ooo tons less than in the former. A few 

 pence over 10 per ton is the highest average price; but growers 

 who pay extreme rents for specially favoured plots obtain much 

 higher averages, as the earliest shipments are commonly sold at 

 between 25 and 30 per ton. The expenses for manure and la- 

 bour, as well as for rent, are extremely high, the total in many 

 rases being 30 per acre, and in some much more. The shipments 

 of tomatoes in 1907 amounted to 2528 tons, valued at 78 331. 



Other important returns are those of the famous Jersey cattle, 

 which are exported to all the civilized countries of the world, and 

 those of dairy produce, chiefly butter. The number of cattle in 

 1907 was IT 968, a large number for the acreage. The pigs num- 

 bered 5012, and horses 2347, while sheep amounted to the insi- 

 gnificant number of 162. 



The glasshouse industry of Jersey is small in comparison with 

 that of Guernesey, but still is a valuable asset to the wealth of 

 the island. 



Grapes, tomatoes, potatoes, French beans, and peas are the 

 principal crops raised in the structures, some of which are heated, 

 and others cool houses. Outdoor fruit and culinary vegetables other 

 than potatoes are much less grown than they were in former times. 



JOHN DRYSDALE. Carse Farming in Stirlingshire, Scotland. 



(Trans. Highl. and Agric. Soc. of Scotland. Vol. XXI, Vth series. 

 Scotland, 1909, pag. 74-101). 



There is probably no system of tillage of arable land which 

 has undergone greater change during the last 20 to 30 years than 

 that pursued on the alluvial clay soil usually termed Carse-land, 

 which stretches for about 28 miles along the Forth valley and 

 which embraces about 36 ooo acres. Much of this land has been 

 reclaimed from the sea and from moss and then improved by 

 drainage and liming. 



The author gives a sketch of the more usual rotations used on 

 Carse land and the crops and grasses grown on it. 



On some of the best managed farms where proper attention is 

 paid to poultry raising, it is now found useful to have portable. 



