Agriculture of the Islands of 
generally sown broadcast, and the young plants treated in the 
same manner as parsnips. Carrots thrive best in light or well- 
pulverised land ; the soil is ploughed deep, and manured as for 
potatoes. The varieties chiefly cultivated are the Altringham 
and Belgian. The root is much esteemed as food for horses 
during the winter months. The produce, when a good crop, is 
about 30 tons per acre, and instances of 36 tons per acre are not 
uncommon. 
When barley is sown, the common time is April: this grain 
as well as oats is only cultivated on poor soils, which are not 
calculated foi" wheat ; but the mode of ploughing and sowing is 
the same. It is put in after turnips ; if after potatoes, clover- 
seed is added for the next year's hay crop. 
When May begins, the farmer thinks of preparing his land for 
swedes. The pasture intended to be broken up will have been 
fed off closely ; he will then scarify it, and at the end of the 
month pare it with his plough as thinly as possible, after which 
it is harrowed well with a heavy two-horse harrow ; stable manure 
is then carted and spread on the surface at the rate of 25 tons per 
acre. Sometimes seaweed is also used and found good ; in short, 
it may be said to be applied for all roots, especially in the im- 
mediate neighbourhood of the coast, where it most abounds. 
When the land has been made ready, it is ploughed with four 
horses, six or seven inches deep, or so that what may have been 
on the surface is entirely buried. If. the seed be drilled the 
ground is harrowed, and then distributed in drills 14 inches 
apart. When the young plants have three leaves they are lightly 
thinned, and subsequently they are again hoed and left at a 
distance of 14 inches from each other. Of late years the Swedish 
turnip has not answered well in the island ; the young plants 
have been devoured by insects as soon as they made their 
appearance above ground, and consequently had to be sown a 
second time. It is the opinion of many that they should not 
be put in too early, nor yet immediately after the land is ploughed, 
but that a certain time should be allowed for all grubs, &c., to 
disappear. Two varieties of swedes are grown in Jersey, the 
purple and the green. A fair crop produces about 26 tons 
per acre. 
About the middle of June the hay season commences by cut- 
ting the two years old clover, which is always ripe before the 
main or (me year old crop. It is allowed to stand too long before 
cutting, for the rye-grass which is in it dries up, and its stems 
Ijecome wiry and lose their nutriment ; moreover the clover- 
leaves rot near the foot, and the hay gets coarse and liard. 
The farmer, regardless of quality, thinks that by this means he 
obtains a heavier crop ; he forgets that by cutting early he will 
