156 CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA. 



Daily Leaf and Tea Account. 



If this system is carried out, no Tea (exceeding a pound 

 or so) can be stolen without its being at once missed, and 

 the importance of this cannot be exaggerated. Tea pro- 

 prietors do not guess how much is lost in this way. Maunds 

 upon maunds might be stolen in many gardens, and unless 

 the theft were accidentally discovered there is nothing in 

 the Tea accounts to show it to the manager. 



I have suppositiously filled up the three first days of the 

 form. The 820 Ibs. leaf picked on Sunday is made into 

 Tea on Monday. The 198 is written down Sunday evening. 

 On Tuesday morning, when the Tea is weighed and found 

 to be 200 Ibs., that is entered in the Monday line, as also 

 the percentage. On Tuesday evening, after it is sifted and 

 made into different Teas, it is weighed again and found to 

 be 199 Ibs., and so entered. 



