384 Glimpses of Farming in the Channel Islands. 
per Jersey percli, or nearly 20 tons per acre. Potatoes grown 
under glass without artificial heat should be ready for market 
by the end of April or early in May, just before the outdoor 
crop is begun ; but some growers force the tubers for sale in 
January and up to April. 
French beans are grown between rows of tomatoes in heat, 
for picking in January and February. Peas are produced in 
cool-houses only for picking early in April, and up to the time 
when outdoor produce is ready. 
Having briefly described the largest and best of the fruit 
and early vegetable gardens in Jersey, it is not necessary to 
refer to others. Mr. Bashford grows a few choice pears ; but 
glass will soon cover the diminished ground occupied by the 
trees. Judging from what I learned of the quantities and prices 
of his produce, I have no doubt that his money returns from 
13 acres of land greatly exceed those of an ordinary English 
farm of 1,300 acres. He does not wish his prices to be pub- 
lished ; but a few quotations of wholesale prices in Covent 
Garden Market at different periods of the year may be useful to 
young producers. 
Tomatoes realise the highest prices in February and March, 
when the wholesale quotations in Covent Garden are commonly 
2s. to 3s. a pound, falling to Is. to 2s. in April, Is. to Is. 6d. in 
May, 9d. to Is. in June, and 3d. to 4:d. in the autumn, and 
rising to Is. in January. Grapes (from cool-houses) range from 
Sd. to Is. in August and September (when outdoor produce 
from wine-producing countries sell at 3d. to 8cZ.) to from 4s. to 
12s. in March and April. Potatoes realise 6d. to Is. a pound in 
January, and get cheaper as the season advances. French 
beans sell at 2s. to 2s. 3d. a pound in January and February, 
and peas in the pod at about Is. in April and May. Prices 
vary with the season to some extent ; but those given were 
mostly obtained last year. 
But little space is available for reference to live stock and 
dairying in Jersey. It is not necessary to describe the famous 
breed of cattle, now more extensively bred in this country than 
in its native island. The number has fluctuated during the 
last twenty years between 10,000 and nearly 12,500. The 
figures from the Agricultural Returns for cattle and other live 
stock for 1867 and 1887 are as below : — 
LrvB Stock in Jeiusky 
1867 
1887 
Apricultural Horses .... 
10,081 
2,427 (in 1869) 
529 
5,804 
12,474 
2,400 
349 
6,134 
