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In Jersey, the average on different articles is as
follows :—
Wheat 30 cabots, each weighing 30
Barley 2 6 .............................................. 36
Oats 3 0 .............................................. 27
Potatos 300 ........................................... 40
Pounds Jersey
weight per
vergée.
The utmost produce of wheat may be taken at 40
cabots; though in 1813 the utmost produce, on the
best land, was 50 cabots of 33 pounds each.
There is a difference between the pound avoirdupois
and that of Jersey, 104 of the latter being
considered as fully equal to 112 of the former; therefore
13 Jersey pounds are equivalent to 14 pounds
avoirdupois.
Calculating on the above estimates, a Winchester
bushel of Jersey wheat will weigh full 49 Jersey
pounds, or nearly 52 pounds 13 ounces avoirdupois.
As two vergées and a quarter are equal to one
statute acre, the average produce of Jersey wheat, at
30 pounds per cabot, will be 2025 Jersey pounds, or
nearly 2181 pounds avoirdupois, per acre.
The results from the foregoing estimates are interesting
: they prove that Jersey wheat is lighter than
English wheat, in the proportion of 52 pounds 13
ounces to 62 pounds ; but that the produce of wheat
from the Jersey soil, exceeds that of England in the
proportion of 2181 to 1488. Great however as this
excess is, the same disproportion in the quantity of
flour will, it is presumed, not exist ; because the Jersey
grain being lighter, has probably a greater proportion
of husk, or bran; still the difference in the
quantity of flour must be very considerable.
The cabot in which barley and every other kind of
grain (wheat excepted), pease, beans, potatos, &c. are
measured, is more capacious than that used for wheat,
the proportion requiring four of the latter to fill three
of the former. The preceding estimates of barley,
oats, and potatos, must therefore be regulated accordingly.
In addition to the excess in Jersey wheat, it must
be considered, that both in England and the Isle of
Wight, farming is carried on with great attention ;
whereas in Jersey, several material advantages are
either wanting or neglected.
The information from England respecting potatos
varies so much, that it is difficult to fix a proper
average. One account states the average produce of
an acre to be 400 bushels, at 74 pounds per bushel, or
29,600 pounds. A statement respecting the Isle of
Wight is, from 60 to 80 sacks; taking this at the
medium of 70, the produce at 74 pounds per bushel,
will amount to only 15,540 pounds. This estimate is
considered as too low, the other as considerably too
high : perhaps 20,000 pounds would be a fairer
average.
The Jersey produce of potatos is after the rate of
27,000 Jersey pounds, or nearly 29,077 English
pounds per acre; so that in this article also, the
difference is in favour of Jersey.
The general crop of hay is averaged at about one
ton per vergée, which must also be deemed a very
considerable produce. The aftermath is sometimes
mown, but more usually grazed.
A few calculations d.educible from the foregoing