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very material alterations to it. The roll from the " Centrifugal " 

 comes out hot and flat, whereas that from his " Patent Double Action " 

 is turned out not only perfectly cool, but has a perfect twist.* For 

 coarse leaf, Jackson's " Excelsior " is a splendid machine. I should 

 say a factory could not want two better machines than one of 

 Kinmond's " Patent Double Action " and one of Jackson's " Excelsior" 

 Rollers the former for fine, the latter for coarse leaf. Will some of 

 my brother planters kindly give their experience, and thus further 

 enlighten an anxious ENQUIRER. 



TEA ROLLING MACHINERY. 



Dear Sir, I will be glad if some of your numerous readers will 

 kindly furnish results of trials, or of experience, of Kinmond's 

 Compound Action Centrifugal Tea Rolling Machine. I have tried it 

 repeatedly, and find it not only heats the green leaf a great deal too 

 much, but in addition cuts, I may say into mincemeat, about 5^0 of 

 the leaf in the process of rolling. I am not an engineer, and therefore 

 cannot state for certain where the fault lies, but I fancy the ribs of the 

 two revolving plates are somewhat at fault. If they were broader and 

 bolder, the machine might, perhaps, be a better success. The green 

 leaf does not come out sufficiently rolled. The major portion of the 

 roll is too flat. Perhaps Mr. Kinmond will kindly help by giving a 

 hint or two to a perplexed Tea-house " ASSISTANT." 



Haworth's Roller. This machine was invented long ago. 

 The leaf is placed in bags and so rolled. In some respects 

 the machine resembles a mangle. It has not been largely 

 used, and thus is not much known. I have no personal 

 experience of its worth, but have heard much of it from an 

 old friend of mine, Mr. Carter, of the Chandpore Tea Estate, 

 Chittagong. He has, I believe, had one from the first on 

 his plantation, and thinks very well of it. Mr. Carter is a 

 first-rate judge on all Tea matters. He conducted some 

 experiments to test the value of Tea rolled by Jackson's and 

 Haworth's Rollers, and did it with great care, that the quality 

 of leaf, the withering, the drying, all but the two modes of 



* I agree with " Enquirer" in this. E. M. 



