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to six maunds per acre this season. Some of these gardens have really 

 no apparent advantage over their less fortunate neighbours, beyond 

 that of a somewhat better system of cultivation and pruning ; and 

 these improvements even are to such a small degree ahead of the 

 general practice, that I feel justified in saying I cannot place a limit on 

 what the increased yield should be under a more rational system of 

 cultivation, and the application of manures on a liberal scale, leaving 

 out of consideration altogether what might reasonably be expected 

 from a good system of drainage in addition.' 



" Mr. James Stuart, Manager of the Bengal Tea Company's 

 gardens in Cachar, has also given two maunds an acre as the general 

 average of Cachar gardens for the past season, including young 

 gardens of two, three, and four years old. 



" We do not think it necessary to quote in detail the opinions of 

 all the gentlemen examined by us on the subject of average produce 

 per acre. A garden that can give four maunds per acre is undoubtedly 

 a good one, and we have no doubt there are such, or even better ; but 

 we do not think they are so common as to warrant our taking more 

 than three maunds as a safe average." 



Mr. A. C. Campbell, Extra Assistant Commissioner at 

 Burpettah, in his " Notes on Tea Cultivation in Assam," pub- 

 lished in the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural 

 Society of India, part 3, vol. xii., page 309, says : " Good 

 Tea land can be made to yield as high as seven maunds per 

 poora." I forget exactly how much a poora is, but I believe 

 it is nearly an acre. 



In the Report to Government by the Commissioners, 

 quoted above, at page 9, Mr. T. Burland, after estimating 

 the cost of cultivation per acre per mensem at Rs. 9-10-2, 

 adds : " With the above expenditure per acre it is probable 

 that much more than five maunds of Tea will be obtained 

 from an acre of fair plant." * 



All these estimates, however, are based on the cultivation 



* See my estimate for cultivation at page 84. I there estimate Rs. 100 per 

 acre per annum from the sixth year, so that Mr. Burland six years ago had 

 come to the same opinion about high cultivation that I hold. 



