TEA DISTRICTS. 



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I will now endeavour to draw up a tabular statement of 

 the respective advantages of the various Tea districts as 

 regards climate, labour, lay of land, soil, facilities of procuring 

 manure and transport. 



In importance I regard them in the order given. I place 

 labour before soil, because the fact is in all the provinces 

 suitable and good soil for Tea can be found somewhere ; and 

 therefore while soil is all-important in selecting a site, it is 

 secondary to labour in deciding on a district. Lay of land 

 comes after labour. When my information on any point is 

 not sure I place a note of interrogation. Where advantages 

 are equal, or nearly so, I give the same number, and the 

 greater the advantage of a district on the point treated in the 

 column the smaller the number. Thus, under the head of 

 climate Assam is marked I. 



As the following table gives no information as to which of 

 all the districts possesses the greatest advantages, all things 

 considered, but only gives my opinion of each under each head, 

 and the subject closed in this way would be unsatisfactory, I 

 may state that, in my opinion, the choice should lie between 

 the three first and the last on the list ; and my choice would be 

 the last. 



Comparative advantages of the Tea Districts in India as regards 

 climate, labour, lay of land, soil, manure, and transport. 



