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CHAPTER XXVIII. 



COST OF MANUFACTURE, PACKING, TRANSPORT, ETC. 



THESE are as follow : They will vary more or less according 

 to the district, rate of wages, &c., but in the form the tables are 

 given, if not suitable to any case, they can easily be made so. 

 I have added sorting, packing, freight to Calcutta, and 

 broker's charges in Calcutta, to the cost, so that all is included 

 from the moment the green leaf is picked off the trees till the 

 hammer falls at the public auction. 



Table cost of Manufacture, Sorting, Packing, Transport to 

 Calcutta, and Broker's Charges for each maund of Tea. 



Rs. As. P. Rs. As. P. 

 Manufacture. 



i head man with the pickers, say . .040 

 320 Ibs. green leaf picked, at I pice 



per Ib. 1 . , . . . .500 

 i man withering above leaf, at say 4 



annas . . . , , ' .040 

 \ share head man in rolling house .020 



i of men rolling above, at 30 Ibs. leaf 



per man, and say 4 annas per man 2 10 8 

 \ boy clearing out ashes of dhole house, 



at say 2 annas , . . .006 

 \ share head man in Dhole house .020 



Carried over . ,872 



1 In practice the basket in which the leaf is measured being made to hold 

 2|lbs., for which a ticket is given, representing 2 pice, the leaf to make a maund 

 of Tea does not really cost so much. 



