WOMEN PICKING TEA ON HILLS AT KEEMUN 
ing from the Market Centre, say Hankow, Changhai or 
Foochow according to which district it may belong, send 
silver money, partly their own and partly borrowed from native 
banks, up to the district factories. These, as soon as the first leaf 
is picked, send agents into all the surrounding villages with 
money to open the leaf-buying depots. 
It is an unfortunate fact that two-thirds of the process of 
manufacture are done by the countrymen on the hillsides and 
outlying villages, before the tea comes into the hands of the 
factories at all. 
TEA GROWING ON HILLS OF KEEMUN 
