The Cultivation And Manufacture Of Tea

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Author

Money, Edward

Title

The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea

Credits

Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Tea

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 52925

Release Date

August 29, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA.
2. 2.PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. — PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. — PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. — PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. — CONTENTS
3. 3.CHAPTER I. PAST AND PRESENT FINANCIAL PROSPECTS OF TEA. — Schedule of Rates of Upset Prices.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. LABOUR, LOCAL AND IMPORTED.
5. 5.CHAPTER III. TEA DISTRICTS AND THEIR COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES, CLIMATE, SOIL, ETC., IN EACH. — Assam. — Cachar. — Chittagong. — Terai below Darjeeling. — The Dehra Dhoon. — Kangra. — Darjeeling. — Kumaon. — Hazareebaugh. — Neilgherries. — Western Dooars.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. SOIL.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. NATURE OF JUNGLE.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. WATER AND SANITATION.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. LAY OF LAND.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. LAYING OUT A GARDEN.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. VARIETIES OF THE TEA PLANT.
12. 12.CHAPTER X. TEA SEED.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. COMPARISON BETWEEN SOWING IN NURSERIES AND IN SITU. — Nurseries. — In Situ.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. SOWING SEED IN SITU, ID EST, AT STAKE.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. NURSERIES.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. MANURE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. DISTANCES APART TO PLANT TEA BUSHES.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. MAKING A GARDEN.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. TRANSPLANTING.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. CULTIVATION OF MADE GARDENS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. PRUNING.
22. 22.CHAPTER XX. WHITE ANTS, CRICKETS, AND BLIGHT.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. FILLING UP VACANCIES.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. FLUSHING AND NUMBER OF FLUSHES.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. LEAF PICKING.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. MANUFACTURE. MECHANICAL CONTRIVANCES. — Green Tea.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. SIFTING AND SORTING. — Of the Different Classes of Tea. — Green Teas.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI. BOXES. PACKING.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII. MANAGEMENT. ACCOUNTS. FORMS.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII. COST OF MANUFACTURE, PACKING, TRANSPORT, ETC.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX. COST OF MAKING A 300-ACRE TEA GARDEN.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXX. HOW MUCH PROFIT TEA CAN GIVE.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXI. PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF INDIAN TEA.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXII. COUNTRIES OUTSIDE CHINA AND INDIA THAT PRODUCE TEA. — Ceylon. — Johore. — Tea in Johore. — Japan. — Japan Tea. — Japan Black Tea. — Java. [89] — America. — Tea Planting in America. — Natal. — Fiji Tea.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXIII. STATISTICS REGARDING INDIAN TEA. — America.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIV. MARKETS OUTSIDE GREAT BRITAIN. — Australia. — The Calcutta Tea Syndicate. — The new Australian Tea Association. — America. — Tea in America. — The Amsterdam Exhibition. — Thibet. — The Local Market. — The Market at our Doors.—Consumption of China Tea in India.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXV. MAKING INDIAN TEA KNOWN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. — How to Push the Sale of Tea. — Indian Tea Sales at Home.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVI. TEA MACHINERY. — Machinery and Implements for Tea Cultivation. — Ploughing and Hoeing Machinery. — Ploughing v. Hoeing . — Steam Cultivation for Tea. — As to Steam-Ploughing on Tea Gardens. — Tea Manufacturing Machinery. — Tea Rolling Machines. — Tea-Drying Machines . — Ansell’s Sifting, Sorting, and Fanning Machine. — Ansell’s Patent Tea Sorting and Winnowing Machine. — Ansell’s Sifting Machine. — Packing of Tea in Tin Boxes. — Hoop Iron.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVII. WEIGHING AND BULKING OF INDIAN TEAS AT CUSTOM HOUSE. — No. 1 Example. — No. 2 Example. — No. 3. Example. — Tea Bulking at the East and West India Dock Company’s Warehouses, in Crutched Friars. — Conclusion. — The China Tea Trade.
40. 40.ADDENDA TO THE THIRD EDITION . — INDIAN TEA.
41. 41.INDEX.
42. 42.INDEX TO THE ADDITIONS IN FOURTH EDITION.
43. 43.FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note

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