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TEA AND SILK FARMING IX NEW ZEALAND. 



which occur in the cost of production. Omitting one of the 

 gardens given, on account of a manifest error which appears, 

 we note the others thus : — 



From this diagram we learn that the avera^^e cost of brinoinir 



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these eleven tea gardens into bearing was about £71, 17s. 6d. 

 per acre ; that the average yield of marketable tea per acre was 

 280 J lbs. ; that the average cost per lb. was Is. 2jd. ; that the 

 average price realised was Is. 6M., or an apparent profit of 4:jd. 

 per lb. ; and that the average dividend paid to shareholders was 

 about 8^ per cent. 



Collecting the foregoing cost statistics into a focus they will 

 thus appear, epitomised : — 



Cost of producing Tea. 



In China, according to Rhind & Fortune, corroborated by the 

 writer's interviews with natives, ..... 



In Upper Assam, according to Mr. Bainbridge, . 



In Lower Assam, do. do. 



In Kangra Valley, do. Dr. Jenkinson, 4d. to 6d., say, 



Do. do. Major-General Clark, . 



In Assam, do. The Assam Company, 1879, . 



In the Himalayas and Chittagong, according to Lieut.-Col. 

 Money, 1878, 



Accordinc^ to eleven tea companies, qnoted from the Indian 

 Tea Gazette of May 1879, 



Divide by the above eight separate authorities, 



Showing the average cost of producing tea in China and ^ 

 India taken together, according to the examples quoted, > 

 to be, . ) 



8) 6,'9f 



lO^d. p)erlb. 



As the admission of Ceylon into the distinguished fraternity 

 of tea-producing countries has been too recent to admit of the 



