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labour required to supplement it is a few (a very few) women to pick 

 out any foreign substances out of the " Congou. " 



At our garden in Western Dooars, 1,260 maunds of Tea were made 

 in 1880, and all sifted by this machine, the hand labour besides 

 being only 44 women during the whole season, or about one-fifth of a 

 woman per day. 



The machine requires only two men to work it continually, and 

 one boy to feed it from the upper floor. 



I can think of no possible objection to this machine, or even of 

 any possible improvement. I believe, in the case of a 3oo-acre garden 

 with a decent amount of produce, the machine, in its saving of 

 hand labour, pays for itself in one year, whilst the Teas are much 

 improved in appearance by its use, and fetch higher prices. 



EDWARD MONEY. 



I add two more letters in favour of the machine from 

 the same paper : 



ANSELL'S PATENT TEA SORTING AND WINNOWING MACHINE. 



Sir, In respond to your call for information regarding Tea 

 machinery, I am happy to supply you with my experience of Ansell's 

 Patent Tea Sorting and Winnowing Machine. I have been sifting the 

 whole of my Teas through it this season, and am therefore in a 

 position to state what I think of it. I consider it a most useful 

 machine, and a great saver of labour. With four men, I do with it in 

 one day an amount of work which without it I would have to employ 

 from twenty to twenty-five men to accomplish. Yours, &c., 



" SIFTER." 

 ANSELL'S SIFTING MACHINE. 



A correspondent writes from London to the Ceylon Observer as 

 follows : Ansell's Patent Tea Sorter seems to be an article which will 

 later be much used in Ceylon. In a memo, before me there is an 

 extract from Messrs. George Williamson and Co., who say : " The 

 manager of our Majilighur Garden writes : ' I have now had 

 sufficient experience of Ansell's Sifter to be able to report very favour- 

 ably upon it. It does its work thoroughly and cleanly, and, owing to 

 the comparatively small space it occupies, little or no loss occurs even 



