394 Glimpses of Farming in the Channel Islands. 
Exports pbom Guebnset 
Packages 
Price 
"Value 
& 
s. 
d. 
£ 
Radishes and broccoli 
37,000 
0 
5 
0 
9,250 
75,000 
0 
10 
0 
37,500 
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0 
G 
8 
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23,000 
0 
2 
6 
3,000 
50,000 
0 
8 
0 
20,000 
Mushrooms .... 
400 
0 
10 
0 
200 
Total .... 
277,400 
99,950 
The increase over the exports of 1886 was upwards of 37,000 
packages, and the number has nearly doubled since 1883. The 
weight of the grapes is estimated at 502 tons, and of the tomatoes 
at 1,000 tons. It is strange that there is no mention of peas, 
beans, melons, cucumbers, or figs, all exported in considerable 
quantity. Apparently the values do not include the cost of 
conveyance to and sale in London, as the tomatoes come to less 
than Z\d. a pound, which is a very low price. They certainly 
make more than that average price in London. 
Being a great admirer of the Guernsey breed of cattle, it was 
a pleasure to me to inspect a few of the herds in the island. 
]Mr. Le Patourel, who is the principal shipper of cattle in Guern- 
sey, has a remarkably fine herd of twenty milch cows, and a few 
bulls and young stock. The old Excelsior (by Fair Lad) and 
the Climax strains are represented in the herd, in tracing descent 
from bulls, and the Elegans, Cornucopoea, and Bonny Lassie 
families, in tracing from cows. The famous herd belonging to 
Mr. James, of Les Vauxbelets, was dispersed by auction in Eng- 
land while I was in Guernsey. Mr. Le Felly's herd has already 
been referred to in connection with his farm. The Excelsior 
strain is represented in that as well as in Mr. Le Patourel's 
herd. 
One of the best small lots of cows I saw was that belonging 
to Mr. Edward Weedon, who lives about a mile from St. Peter 
Port. He has a fine bull, Vulcan V., which he says is the only 
pure-bred Vesta left in the island, all the rest of the fomily 
having been sold to a well-known English breeder, Mr. Christie. 
It is advisable here to refer again to an excellent mixture noticed 
as gro\vn on Mr. Lo Pelly's farm, as it was found on Mr. Weedon's 
farm also, and is much in favour in the island — one of clover, 
lucerne, and ryegrass, sown to lie for six or seven years. ]\Ir. 
Weedon's farm of fifty vorrjees well repaid inspection, as it is 
excellently cultivated. Strawberries and flowers are among the 
crops. 
Mr. Mahi, of the Vale, and Colonel Gilford, of St. Sampson's, 
