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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

The total area, and the acreage under crops and grass and the numbers of live stock in 1920 were : —

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Jersey

Guernsey, <tc.

Total

acres

acres

acres

28,717

15,750

44,467

Area under —

719

218

937

1,639

819

2,458

Other corn crops ....

251

245

496

7,807

898

8,705

Clover, sainfoin, and grasses under

4,033

966

4.999

Total arable land

16,073

5,172

21,245

Total permanent grass

3,524

6,281

9,S05

'

number

number

Dumber

2,136

1,601

3,737

Cattle

10,523

6,254

16,777

79

414

493

Pigs

4,344

3,041

7,385

1 The area of Jersey includes water, that of Guernsey, efcc, excludes water.

Agricultural holdings above 1 acre in size numbered 1,856 in Jersey, and 1,174 in Guernsey, &c in 1920.

The imports from the Channel Islands into the United Kingdom in 1919 amounted to 4,022,868/., of which potatoes accounted for 1,326,529/. ; tomatoes, 1,919,820?. ; grapes, 199,962?. ; and fresh flowers, 50,230/. The exports from the United Kingdom to the Islands in 1919 were valued at 3,125,220/. Imports, 1920, 4,541,000/. ; exports, 4,147,000/.

The registered shipping on December 31, 1918, comprised 40 sailing vessels of 2,764 net tons, and 13 steam vessels of 536 net tons ; total ton- nage, 3,300 net tons. On the same date there were on the register 319 fishing boats of 840 net tons (Guernsey, 113 boats of 413 tons ; Jersey, 206 boats of 427 tons). V»ssels in foreign trade, 1918, arrived, 175 of 30,998 net Ions ; departed, 215 of 40,111 net tons.

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