The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea

CONTENTS

PRIZE ESSAY
ON THE
Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in India.

PREMIUM, THREE HUNDRED RUPEES AND THE GRANT GOLD MEDAL.

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CHAPTER	PAGE
I.	Past and Present Financial Prospect of Tea	1
II.	Labour, Local and Imported	10
III.	Tea Districts and their Comparative Advantages. Climate, Soil, &c., in each	13
IV.	Soil	31
V.	Nature of Jungle	34
VI.	Water and Sanitation	35
VII.	Lay of Land	37
VIII.	Laying out a Garden	42
IX.	Varieties of the Tea Plant	47
X.	Tea Seed	54
XI.	Comparison between Sowing in Nurseries and in Situ	57
XII.	Sowing Seed in Situ, id est, at Stake	59
XIII.	Nurseries	62
XIV.	Manure	67
XV.	Distances apart to Plant Tea-Bushes	71
XVI.	Making a Garden	73
XVII.	Transplanting	76
XVIII.	Cultivation of Made Gardens	81
XIX.	Pruning	86
XX.	White Ants, Crickets, and Blight	89
XXI.	Filling up Vacancies	92
XXII.	Flushing and Number of Flushes	97
XXIII.	Leaf-Picking	102
XXIV.	Manufacture. Mechanical Contrivances	109
XXV.	Sifting and Sorting	134
XXVI.	Boxes. Packing	147
XXVII.	Management, Accounts, Forms	152
XXVIII.	Cost of Manufacture, Packing, Transport, &c.	160
XXIX.	Cost of Making a 300-acre Tea Garden	163
XXX.	How much Profit Tea can give	168
XXXI.	The Past, Present, and Future of Indian Tea	174
XXXII.	Countries Outside China and India that Produce Tea	183
XXXIII.	Statistics regarding Indian Tea	194
XXXIV.	Markets Outside Great Britain	207
XXXV.	Making Indian Tea Known in the United Kingdom	218
XXXVI.	Tea Machinery	222