78 EXPENSE IN AMEKICA. 



But calculating it at 50 cents per day, for free labor, 

 it would be as follows : 



Hoeing 100 acres, 2 men per acre - $100 00 



Sieves, (additional) 50 at 50 cents each 25 00 

 Plucking leaves, say 1200 Ibs. per acre, of green leaf, 



one man 60 Ibs. at 50 cents, or 120,000 Ibs. 1,000 00 

 Manufacturing, one man to 60 Ibs. green leaf, or 



120,000 Ibs. 1 ; 000 00 

 Charcoal and firewood, 10 cents per 100 Ibs. dried leaf, 



or 30,000 Ibs. 30 00 



Packages for 80 Ibs., 50 cents, or on 30,000 Ibs. 187 50 



Total expense $2,342 50 



30,000 Ibs. for 82,843, or T-f cents per Ib. 



This would be a means of not only enriching the cul 

 tivator, but of keeping up the price of labor to some 

 $180 a year, and would leave the cotton trade and rice 

 trade to fewer hands. It would give employment to the 

 many, encourage immigration, and give to all a greater 

 degree of prosperity. 



The trade of a tea maker might be an item the first 

 season, but after the first crop every man in the business 

 would be aufait. Therefore I do not put down any 

 item for a tea maker. The rolling of the leaves might 

 be done by machinery, and would, at the first estimate, 

 in which I allow the expense of a slave at 20 cents a 

 day, be a saving of 11 cents per Ib.; or in the second 

 estimate, wherein I allow the hire of labor to be 50 cents 

 per day, a saving of 3a cents per Ib. Leaving the cost 

 of labor 50 cents, still with machinery, simple in its 

 structure, and therefore of very trifling cost, tea would 

 cose the planter only 4 T \ cents per Ib. 



