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JERSEY CATTLE AT HOME. 
The Island of Jersey, the largest and most 
important of the Channel Islands, contains 
only about 45 square miles, its greatest length 
being only 11 miles, and its greatest breadth 
about 5miles. Though belonging to Great 
Britain, it lies contiguous to the coast of 
France, and its people are by far more French 
than English. The surface of the country is 
broken with numerous winding valleys, hav¬ 
ing a general direction from north to south, 
and uniting as they approach the south so as 
to form small plains. It has suffered some¬ 
what from the encroachments of sand from 
the ocean, which drifts in from the west; but 
the lofty hedges which bound the small in- 
elosurei, and the trees which line the roadsides 
and which occupy ever}' untillable ledge, give 
it the appearance of a forest land. The cli¬ 
mate is mild, with a mean annual tempera¬ 
ture of 51 .degrees, in which the fuchsia, 
| the orange and the flg grow in sheltered places 
entirely unprotected. While its annual rain- 
fal is only HO3^ inches, rain falls on about 150 
days each year, so that such a thing as drought 
is scarcely known. The land is very product¬ 
ive, the soil being a deep loam, which is highly 
tilled and manured and which produces large 
crops of wheat, hay, turnips, parsnips and 
potatoes, besides much garden truck for the 
English market. The manure mostly used, is 
partially burnt sea weed, of which immense 
quantities are thrown up by the sea each 
year. Jersey has only about 19,000 acres of ara¬ 
ble land of all grades, and that it is well culti¬ 
vated and very productive is shown by the 
fact that since 1851 it has supported a popula¬ 
tion which has not varied much in the whole 
time from 55,000, the land being divided into 
farms of from one to 50 acres, the majority 
being less than three. 
The mainstay of Jersey, however is its 
cattle, of which it has somewhat over 11,000, 
or 58 to every 100 acres of tillable land. Of 
this number about 6,000 are cows and 4,382 
are under two years of age. The cattle are, 
of course, all Jerseys, and are kept pure by 
JERSEY FAMILY AT HOME. Fig. 315. 
