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result or cause it is not easy to determine, there has been an 

 incredible adulteration of the staple, so that what is drank 

 for tea in many countries is often not tea at all. It is not 

 only undesirable, but it is useless to try to compete in this 

 or any other market with these inferior and adulterated teas, 

 but surely, with a trade of 100,000,000 pounds of tea, which 

 is the amount annually consumed by the American people, 

 with refinement and wealth and culture rapidly increasing 



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among us, there must be a market which is ever widening 

 for a really high grade and superior tea. On the Dragons 

 Pool estate, near Hangchow, China, there is produced a grade 

 of tea which commands a price in the local market so high 

 that none of the product is ever exported. It has already 

 been demonstrated that a quality of tea can be grown in this 

 country which is the equal of the best that can be produced 

 abroad. The tannin in tea makes it strongly astringent, but 

 adds nothing to its stimulating qualities. At Pinehurst it 

 has been shown that teas may be produced which contain but 



