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. * 



Why, 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. 



I believe there is nothing will pay better than Tea, if 

 embarked on with the necessary knowledge in suitable 



