Appendix I. 
HE island of Guernsey in the English Channel, 
only from four to seven miles long, and three to 
four miles wide, supports a permanent population 
of 41,000 and an additional visiting population each year 
of about 30,000 persons. Only 11,623 acres are under 
cultivation, but if the glass houses and frames were 
placed in line they would extend for twenty-eight miles, 
or all around the island, and up the centre for almost 
its entire length, and would average about 10 feet in 
width. The farming lands are valued at twelve hundred 
dollars ($1200) an acre, and are rented at 10 per cent. 
of their value. The exports of this land in fruits, vege- 
tables, flowers and cattle, amount to more than two 
and three-quarters millions ($2,752,000) annually. In 
addition to this, the farmers produce all that the 71,000 
persons consume, as well as hay, oats and forage for 
horses and cattle; and about $500,000 worth of butter, 
poultry, eggs, pork and beef. At a conservative esti- 
mate, the island produces about four and a half millions’ 
($4,500,000) worth of farm and garden stuff each year, 
or a little less than four hundred dollars’ ($400) worth to 
the acre, 
Don’t you think we Americans, with our improved 
machinery and intelligence, can get much more out of 
our land—when we try? 
If the State of New York were all cultivated and popu- 
lated at that rate it would produce nearly $15,000,000,000 
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