CHAPTER XIII. 
MANAGEMENT. 
To manage a Tea Estate properly it is neces- 
sary to have some slight knowledge of many 
trades, As although in many cases assistance 
will be given willingly by neighbouring planters, 
still it often happens that in cases of emergency 
the manager has to depend entirely on himself. 
A European ought to be able to look after a gar- 
den which produces 1,000 maunds without help 
or with assistance from a Moonshee or Baboo. 
These Natives have often been doing nothing but 
Tea work for 20—25 years and are quite as 
useful as an ordinary European assistant, and 
an aséistant’s salary makes a great deal of 
difference in the yearly expenditure. When a 
garden’ produces over 1,200 maunds an assistant 
will be necessary and on large estates making 
over 3,000 maunds, a regular European Tea House 
assistant should be employed. Four rupees a 
maund is a very fair allowance for European 
Establishment. Most hill gardens give pony 
