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filling, clearing and planting 50 acres, and weeding and 

 draining for the first year, would come to about $2,500 ; 

 this of course not including labourers' houses. For the 

 2nd year, expenses would come to about $1,000, for the 

 3rd the same, during the 4th year, your expenditure 

 would rise owing to gathering and manipulating crop, 

 but you should get a crop of about 3,500 lbs. of Tea, 

 which should fetch, say 20 cents 'per lb.=$7,5oo — after 

 this your crop would increase without any great increase 

 in expenses. 



In Ceylon wages range from 1/ per day for men to 

 6d. per day for women, and Ceylon Tea can be put on 

 the London market, all expenses paid, at yd. per lb., 

 but it must be remembered that freight there is con- 

 siderably heavier than here, and that carriage on the 

 island is also expensive. 



