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efforts were made to extend its cultivation, The first attempts proved 
so successful, that a large area n and som 
extensions are made every year. The annual out-turn must be nearly 
a million !bs, of made tea, but there are no statistics on the subject 
Araian. The arva para tea is probably about 3,000 
6,000 feet. In the um situation it is pennis to start on account of 
the drought ; and the greater heat eauses it to winter more thoroughly, 
but during the monsoon months the growth is Mosi ibl rapid, and 
fully makes up for its cessation in the dry weather. At the higher eleva- 
tions the growth is more regular, but less rapid, and the yield less, but 
quality is better, so that the advantages of either situation are about 
equally balanced, Probably the iem elevation is about midway between 
It that the 
the two at about 3,000 feet. ere that first suecess was 
eai and here a very pests kes yield can be obtained, while the 
s more favourable for Europeans than in the low country. 
The mi position of - tea industry in Travancore is decidedly 
ing. The yield is good and the class of tea is on a level with 
that of Ceylon. The mistake of planting steep lands, made in the case 
of coffee, has been avoided, and the plants have been singularly free 
from diseases or MÀ of insects. y one or two of the estates at 
r elevai e suffered from the tea mosquito (Helopeltis 
—— which punctures the leaves cy prevents the plants flushing. 
The low prices now ruling, which are the result of extended cultiva- 
tion, re not admit of pee profits, but it is nevertheless possible to 
obtain a very fair return on the capital expended. 
