HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 193 
Mr. Bowrs. I want to ask you one question. Does the Arlington 
farm produce any revenue to the Government? Are any of the 
products of the farm sold? 
Mr. Gattoway. No; the products are not sold. The only revenue 
is, we grow our own feed there for our stock. And we have 60 acres 
on the river bottoms that belong to the War Department, but are 
turned over to the Department of Agriculture, and we are growing 
down there quite many of the crops that can not well be grown at the 
Arlington farm. We are testing there quantities of seed that come in 
for Congressional distribution, for purity and vitality. 
The Cuarrman. How about the tea-culture item? 
Mr. Gattoway. We have just inaugurated the tea work in Texas. 
We have practically finished the work in South Carolina, with the 
exception that we are now carrying on certain investigations in the 
matter of determining the things which give the variation in quality 
of tea. We are making there this year, or have made last year, 
something like 9,000 pounds of tea—it would have been 12,000 pounds 
if the season had been favorable—and we are just beginning to turn 
out a high grade of green tea; and that has been made practicable by 
the work that has been done by the plant physiologist, i has worked 
out certain problems connected with the fermentation of tea. It is 
practicable to ferment tea in a way to make a high-grade green tea. 
Some of the tea we sold on the market for $2.50 a pound. 
Mr. Scorr. How much of the work have you done on the South 
Carolina plantation and how much expense have you borne? 
Mr. Gattoway. A small part of the expense. The main expense 
has been borne by Doctor Shepard, who owns the farm, and who has 
put all the money into the buildings and improvements. The money 
we have expended there has been in the direction of the purchase of 
experimental machinery, some of which has proved of value and some 
of which has proved of no value. 
Mr. Scott. Has it been a profitable investment for him? 
Mr. Gattoway. He will just about make expenses this year. 
Mr. Scorr. He is encouraged to follow the work up? 
Mr. Gattoway. Yes. 
The CHarrman. In your judgment is it a commercial success? 
Mr. Gauioway. It is, there. The fact can be shown by the way 
the people near there are taking held of it. In fact, there is one firm 
that is preparing to put out several hundred acres near Summerville. 
They eventually plan to put out 2,000 acres. What has checked the 
work, and put a rather serious check on it, bas been the taking off of 
the tariff, which makes quite a serious difference in the matter of 
handling it. There was a war tariff of 12 cents on tea. All other 
countries besides ours take off the tax on tea. : 
Mr. Lever. Do you have any difficulty in getting the right kind of 
labor down there? 
Mr. Gattoway. There is no trouble in South Carolina with labor. 
We can grow tea there for about 15 cents a pound. 
Mr. Scort. Is it a thing that can be handled ina small way? | 
Mr. Gattoway. It can be handled in a small way in this fashion, 
very much like sugar beet. A factory with a capacity of handling 
1,000 acres would probably cost about $5,000. It is less expensive 
than sugar-beet work. 
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