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some person to take charge. The case is different in 

 America, where every farmer may have his tea planta- 

 tion attached to his house. 



The expense the first year would be for hoeing, pul- 

 verizing, drilling, &c., half an acre of land, and sowing 

 the tea seeds, say six men. I have calculated that every 

 slave stands his owner in 21 cents a day. I will give 

 the calculations at the end of the book. 



Weekly, say one man one day for ten months, 

 43+6=49 days, at 20 cents, say, - - $10 



SECOND YEAR. 



The transplanting might be done in October, Novem- 

 ber, January, and February, or as the weather would 

 permit. Say the " tea year" is from 1st September to 

 end of August. 



Clearing underwood, say four men per acre, 

 or 100 acres at 80 cents per acre, - - $80 00 



Hoeing 100 acres, four men per acre, at 20 



cents each, or 1 00 acres at 80 cents per acre, 80 00 



Transplanting 100 acres, two men per acre, or 

 40 cents per acre, 40 00 



Hoeing the earth round plants, two men per 

 acre, 100 acres, 40 00 



Plucking 1 60 Ibs. of green leaf per acre, or on 

 100 acres 16,000 Ibs., one man to pluck 30 

 Ibs. ; therefore, 30 Ibs. would cost 20 cents, 

 or 16,000 - - 106 60 



Manufacturing, in the absence of machinery, 

 one man to every 60 Ibs. of green leaf 

 16,000 Ibs., - - - - - - 53 30 



Packing cases for 80 Ibs., say 50 cents, for 



4,000 Ibs. manufactured tea, 25 00 



Sieves, of cane or bamboo (I cannot say what 

 they would cost here, but making in India 



