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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
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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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