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For obvious reasons it would not be advisable to do so before then. 

 We may mention here that one of the most intelligent and practical 

 planters in this district has ordered one of Colonel Money's flues for 

 his private garden. 



" Of the commercial success of Colonel Money's apparatus we 

 have no doubt whatever, and we trust that Colonel Money will reap 

 a handsome profit from his very ingenious invention, which will be an 

 undoubted boon not only to this district, but to all the Tea-producing 

 districts of India. 



" One point which has struck us as good in Colonel Money's 

 apparatus is that the temperature of the Tea-house is considerably 

 lowered during the firing process as compared with the open chulas. 

 and that there is no free carbonic acid gas allowed to escape into the 

 Tea-house, so that those very unpleasant symptoms of slow poisoning 

 which often show themselves in planters and Tea-makers will be 

 unknown in future. At our suggestion Colonel Money has decided to 

 keep a register of the maximum temperature of the Tea-house, whilst 

 the open chulas continue in use, and to compare it with the tempera- 

 ture when the new apparatus has superseded them, also to test for free 

 carbonic acid gas in the air with each process. 



" We are convinced that when the figures are available our 

 readers will be rather astonished at the difference from a sanitary 

 point of view. 



" On the whole, we think that Colonel Money's invention is by far 

 the most important application of common sense and scientific know- 

 ledge to Tea manufacture that we have yet seen, and we are almost 

 certain that his apparatus will before long be adopted throughout the 

 Indian Tea districts." * 



* Note to Third Edition. No. The furnace has been erected but on two 

 or three gardens. Other inventions have since been brought forward, and 

 the whole matter is still in an uncertain state I mean as to which of the 

 several apparatuses is the best. I believe in mine still, and intend to erect it 

 on the Western Dooar Gardens in which I am interested, but, of course, I am 

 not an impartial judge ! One thing, however, I lay claim to, and that is, that 

 I was the first to show by practical results that the fumes of charcoal are in 

 no way necessary to make Tea. 



Note to Fourth Edition. Since the above note was written (now five 

 years ago) many Tea Drying Machines have been invented (see pages 240 to 

 259), and I most willingly admit they are all better than my furnace apparatus- 

 The first inventor rarely attains perfection, and as in my case, he generally 

 labours for the benefit of those who come after ! EDWARD MONEY. 



