PRIZE ESSAY 



ON THE 



CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE 

 OF TEA IN INDIA. 



PREMIUM, THREE HUNDRED RUPEES AND THE GRANT GOLD MEDAL. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAST AND PRESENT FINANCIAL PROSPECTS OF TEA. 



Will Tea pay ? Certainly, on a suitable site, and in a good Tea 

 climate ; equally certainly not in a bad locality with 

 other drawbacks. 



W/iy, then, has Tea only paid during the last few years (?) Simply 

 because nothing will pay, which is embarked on without 

 the requisite knowledge ; and this was pre-eminently the 

 case with Tea. 



Nothing was known of Tea formerly, when everybody 

 rushed into it ; not much is known even now. Still, with those 

 drawbacks and many others, the enterprise has survived, and 

 it is very certain the day will never come that Tea cultivation 

 will cease in India. 



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