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without ripening ; mlb) if the seed-crop is poor, the leaf-crop is 
usually E ood, and vice 
Ownership.—Each house owns from one to m kins, the various 
pioperties being bounded by rough cactus hed 
rops.—As othe stated, there are two kinds of crops—the leaf- 
crop and the seed-cro 
T. af-crop.—The trees ires three times a year in—( 
Tagu to Kasón (April-May) ; (2) o to Wagaung (July-August) ; 
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which is left. us, if there are three leaves in a shoot, the shoot is 
nipped off just below "the second leaf, Each owner then takes his crop 
of leaves and throws it into an iron cauldron* full of boiling water; it is 
left in this water till the leaves turn a yellow colour; the water is then 
thrown away and the leaves rolled by hand on mats; it is then ready to 
be sold to traders, who take it away either packed in bamboo crates or in 
the internode of the myetsangye bamboos (Dendrocalamus Ham- 
altonit), If one wanted to keep this tea, it must either be kept buried in 
the ground or the crates and bamboos must be kept in water. a 
village, which has the largest extent of “kins,” makes on the average 
20,000 viss of Zetpet annually. The price at the village for the produce 
of the first flush is mo vu 16 per 100 viss, for the other and later 
flushes Rs. 12-8 per 100 vi 
(b eed-crop.—The 6 seed-crop ripens in gong and November ; it 
is then eollected, dried in the sun and sold to Burmese traders, who 
me up for it. "The trader shoots the seed tit the bottom of his boat, 
the bottom being roughly lined with mats, and then takes it down to 
Kettha or Tónhé; where he sells it to the native agents of “ tea-seed 
chiefs.” 
Value.—The price of the tea-seed on the garden varies from Rs. 3 to 
thod of i 
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produce of the garden for a fixed sum per basket. Thus i in AE 
1894, the Maungkan villagers contracted to sell all their seed at Rs. 5a 
basket. The trader then advances on the condition that, if the villagers 
cannot pay him back in tea-seed, they must pay him Rs. 100 per cent. 
on his money. If "e trader eannot get a contraet for the whole crop, 
he always manages to make advances for a certain proportion of the 
erop on the same ohio Thus, this year all the villagers of Kawya 
have had advances on the condition that they pay back next November 
(in seed), each basket to be counted as Rs. 3. Any left after the 
as Burma is concerned, as from here it is eher by Chin or E Manipart 
coolies in baskets, Scotch mi aerial fashion to Manipur. No tax is 
collected or any transit anywhere along the route. The 
Chins are said to carry a toad “of one basket and a quarter, the average 
* The ordinary dé of Burma, similar to the one cutch is cooked in. 
