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sowing clover and ryegrass after the potatoes are dug, and letting 
the crop stand for two or three years. In this case a good deal 
of feed is commonly obtained in the autumn, the seeds being 
sown in July. Very little corn is grown, as will be seen from 
the table appended, and most of the barley is planted after 
potatoes come off the land, to be harvested the same year. It 
is not surprising, then, to find that potatoes occupy about one- 
third of the total area under crops, fallow, and grass in Jersey, 
instead of less than one-tenth, as estimated by the writer above 
referred to in 1859 — less than one-tenth, because he excepted 
grass and fruit farms from his estimate. 
Unfortunately there are no precise crop statistics for an earlier 
year than 1867 (unless the doubtful figui-es for 1866 be taken), 
and we must be contented with seeing the differences which 
twenty years have brought about, as below : — 
Crops ix Jersey 
1867 
1 Aft? 
Acres 
Acres 
Wheat 
2,352 
1,876 
Barley 
137 
119 
303 
163 
Eye 
21 
52 
12 
6 
2 
20 
Total Corn Crops . , 
2,827 
2,236 
2,062 
6,488 
],5i7 
1,705 
730 
724 
913 
113 
159 
50 
Vetches, lucerne, &c 
225 
583 
Total Green Crops , , 
6,636 
9,663 
Clover, &c., and grasses under rotation 
8,250 
4,832 
Permanent pasture 
6,092 
3,701 
3 
2,550 
126 
Crops, bare fallow and grass 
20,355 
20,661 
Here we have a decrease of nearly six hundred acres of com 
crops, an increase of 4,426 acres under potatoes, a great falling 
off in the cultivation of carrots, a great increase under vetches, 
lucerne, &c., and clover and grasses under rotation, a decrease of 
permanent pasture by over 2,300 acres, and an approach to the 
extinction of bare fallow. 
