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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the year, 52 per cent was black tea, 35 per cent was green tea, aiid 13 

 per cent was Oolong tea. Japan, including Formosa, furnished ap- 

 proximately 38 per cent of the total ; China, 15 per cent ; India and 

 Ceylon, 36 per cent; Java and Sumatra, 10 per cent; and other 

 countries, about 1 per cent. 



The largest rejections occurred in the case of Japanese green teas, 

 owing to the fact that the rejected teas contained " woody floaters." 

 The Japanese Government has already taken steps to regulate the 

 manufacture of their teas so as to prevent a recurrence of this condi- 

 tion. The next largest rejections occurred in the case of Congou 

 teas. The reason for this was that many old Congou teas had been 

 mixed with the new crop and were so predominant in the mixtures 

 that the teas were rejected on account of quality. 



Table 1 shows the results of the examination of teas in the tea- 

 inspection districts. 



Table 1. — Results of examination of imported teas. 



Point of examination. 



Boston 



Chicago 



Honolulu I . . . 

 Puget Soimd . 



St. Paul 



San Francisco 

 New York 



Total... 



Tea 

 examined. 



Pounds. 

 16, 559, 221 



5, 075, 454 



57, 128 



11,657,731 



1,314,199 

 11,977,661 

 49, 026, 526 



96,267,920 



Tea 

 passed. 



Pounds. 

 16, 551, 853 



5, 059, 043 



57,128 



11,654,961 



1,313,800 

 11,950,328 

 49, 403, 703 



95, 990, 816 



Tea re- 

 jected for 

 quality. 



Pounds. 

 7,368 

 16,411 



2,770 



399 



27, 333 



220, 383 



Tea re- 

 jected for 

 purity. 



Pounds. 



2,440 



Tea re- 

 jected for 

 purity and 



quality. 



Pounds. 

 7,368 

 16,411 



2,770 



399 



27,333 



'222,823 



274,664 



2,440 



277, 104 



I Includes examinations made in May and Jime. Before May teas imported at Honolulu were examined 

 at San Francisco. 



NAVAL STORES ACT. 



The enforcement of the naval stores act, which was signed by the 

 President on March 3, 1923, and went into effect June 1, 1923, has 

 been assigned to the Bureau of Chemistry by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture. 



The act defines and establishes classes and grades for the several 

 kinds of turpentine and of rosin, makes the rosin types prepared by 

 the Bureau of Chemistry the United States official standards for 

 rosin, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to revise or make new 

 standards, requires the sale in interstate and foreign commerce of 

 all turpentine and rosin under the standards provided, makes un- 

 lawful the use of words, parts, or derivatives of words resembling 

 " turpentine " or " rosin," or of any misleading or false word or 

 words in advertising, offering for sale, shipping, or selling anything 

 which is not naval stores of the standards provided in the act. The 

 law also authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, upon request of in- 

 terested persons, to examine and grade naval stores and to issue a 

 certificate showing the analysis, classification, or grade, which cer- 

 tificate shall be prima facie evidence in any court. For this service 

 the Secretary is authorized to make a charge intended to cover the 

 cost of such work. 



No funds have so far been provided for the enforcement of the act. 

 Work on the preparation of regulations under the act is being done, 



