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era frontier of India, but it has been done several times. 

 I gave a certain amount for every 20 Ibs. of green tea leaf, 

 8 pice, or about 61 cents ; for 40 Ibs. double that sum ; 

 and for 60 Ibs. treble of it. Men, women, boys, and girls, 

 each picked 20 Ibs. from 8 o'clock A. M. to 2 o'clock 

 P. M. Many of the men, and some of the women, 

 plucked 40 Ibs., and there were some who would go out 

 early in the morning, and collect 60 Ibs. by 6 o'clock in 

 the evening. The work I gave men to hoe, was one 

 acre to ten men. Well, if two men can do that work in 

 America, I should say, one man would pick 60 Ibs. of 

 green leaf in the day ; for if one man equalled five In- 

 dians at hoeing, I do not see why he could not equal the 

 best Indian picker of leaves, for in both works it de- 

 pended on the arms and perseverance; picking leaves 

 does not require the same physical powers as hoeing ; it 

 is more of application that is needed. And it is in that 

 quality that Easterns are defective. 



The manufacturing is easy, except that in the coarser 

 kinds of teas it is difficult to roll the old leaves. One man 

 can easily work as much as one will pick. I had, for 

 making charcoal, cutting firewood, and manufacturing, 

 three men to every five pickers of leaves. With ma- 

 chinery to roll the leaves two men's labor would be 

 economized. 



In the fourth year, on the 100 acres, I have shown 

 that 30,000 Ibs. of tea cost to manufacture, &c., 

 $1082 50, being but 3 3 cents per lb., and that, by use of 

 machinery, the quantity might be manufactured for 

 2? cents per lb., calculating the expense of slave-labor 

 at 20 cents per diem.. 



