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and the whole October crop of Soom Tea will be fired by the new 

 furnace. 



' Colonel Money has applied for a patent, and as soon as this is 

 granted we hope to give our readers a description of the apparatus. 

 For obvious reasons it would not be advisable to do so before then. 

 We may mention here that one of the most intelligent and practical 

 planters in this district has ordered one of Colonel Money's flues for 

 his private garden. 



' Of the commercial success of Colonel Money's apparatus we 

 have no doubt whatever, and we trust that Colonel Money will reap 

 a handsome profit from his very ingenious invention, which will be 

 an undoubted boon not only to this district but to all the Tea-pro- 

 ducing districts of India. 



' One point which has struck us as good in Colonel Money's 

 apparatus is that the temperature of the Tea-house is considerably 

 lowered during the firing process as compared with the open chulas, 

 and that there is no free carbonic acid gas allowed to escape into the 

 Tea-house, so that those very unpleasant symptoms of slow poisoning 

 which often show themselves in planters and Tea-makers will be 

 unknown in future. At our suggestion Colonel Money has decided 

 to keep a register of the maximum temperature of the Tea-house, 

 whilst the open chulas continue in use, and to compare it with the 

 temperature when the new apparatus has superseded them, also to 

 test for free carbonic acid gas in the air with each process. 



' We are convinced that when the figures are available our 

 readers will be rather astonished at the difference from a sanitary 

 point of view. 



1 On the whole, we think that Colonel Money's invention is by 

 far the most important application of common sense and scientific 

 knowledge to Tea manufacture that we have yet seen, and we are 

 almost certain that his apparatus will before long be adopted through- 

 out the Indian Tea districts.' J 



1 Note to 3rd edition. No. The furnace has been erected but on two or 

 three gardens. Other inventions have since been brought forward, and the 

 whole matter is still in an uncertain state I mean as to which of the several 

 apparatuses is the best. I believe in mine still, and intend to erect it on the 

 Western Dooar Gardens in which I am interested, but, of course, I am not an 

 impartial judge ! One thing, however, I lay claim to, and that is, that I was the 

 first to show by practical results that the fumes of charcoal are in no way neces- 

 sary to make Tea. 



