Aug. 1, laoo. 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
to thorouohly break up the balls or clots into 
which the Tea forms. I greatly recomnieml a 
Sonter's breaker. 
6. The leaf being thoi oiighly broken up, replace 
in S'rocco, and with temperature of 2.30 to 280, 
tire for abouc 15 minutes until the leaf is like 
chamois leatlier — soft, with a tendency to getting 
crisp, but yet not crisp. 
7. Roll again : lir^c five minutes hiird, and 
then about five minutes more, lightly, to get twist, 
then break roil once more, and finish by final 
firing at a temperature of 200. 
The sieves I used for my break were Nos. 12 
and 10, and the balance broken through a No. 8. 
All the fanniii^s must Le most carefully taken 
out as well as the dusc. What Tea will not so 
through an " 8 '' can be broken up and mixed witii 
the tannings. 
I named the Teas : — 
No. 1. New Season's Extra Choicest Green Tea. 
No. 2. do. Choicest Ceylon Green Tea. 
No. 3. do. Choice do. do. 
No. 4, do. Green Tea Finnings, 
No a. do. do. Daat. 
and headed the Invoice wich the words " (Jeylon 
Uucolored Green Teis." 
H. D. Deank. 
MANUFACTURE OP GREEN TEAS: 
IN DEHRA BOON. 
The method of manufacturing green tea in the 
Dehra Doon district for the Central A^ian market, 
is as follows : — 
Manufacture can be commenced as soon as the 
leaf is jjlucked, but as it is more convenient to 
manufacture a day's plucking at once, tiie leaf 
plucked during the day is allowed to be all 
night in the leaf shed, sju'ead out from two to 
four inches deep, and is constantly turned over 
to prevent heating. 
The process of manufacture is as follows : — A 
large iron karai or pan 36" in diameter by 12" 
deep, is heated almost red hot, and when ready 
is tilled with green leaf, which is rapidly turned 
about to prevent burniLg, until it has become 
quite soft, and the mass reduced to about half 
its former size. This process takes about three 
minutes. It is then thrown on the rolling table 
and while the ne.xt panful is being prepared, 
is rolled by the tea-makers. As the leaf is per- 
fectly soft and flaccid, the rolling is done in the 
.same time as the panning takes. If there is any 
sun, the rolled leaf is then thinly spread out in 
it until it becomes a blackish green and is 
very sticky to the touch or if cloudy, is put in 
chalnies over charcoal fires until in the same 
condition. It is then put into smaller iron pani 
25" in diameter by 12" deep, which are only 
heated to such a decree that the hand cannot be 
kept on the iron. These pans are about half 
filled, and the leaf is kept turning over until it 
has become quite soft again, when it is again 
rolled. When the day's batch has all Ijeen 
rolled a second time, the small pans are filled to the 
brim, the heat being gradually lowered, and 
the leaf is cooked, being constantly turned about 
as before for abuuC four hours, when it is almost 
dry to the touch. If a large quantity of the two 
classes of gunpowder ate required, it is then 
screwed up iu bags (as described in our last is>ue) 
but this is not necessary nor indeed advisable at 
present, as the gunpowders do not bring the same 
prices as Young Hyson and Hyson, a quantity of 
which classes become gunpowder in the screwing. 
The tea may now lie lett for weeks in tiie bins 
before being classed and coloured, but wo will 
suppose that the next process t ikes place next 
morning. The small pans should be heated to the 
extent ot buining tiie hand if kept on llie iron 
for a short time, and about half filled with the tea, 
which is worked rapidly from side to side until it 
assumes a light greenish tint, which will take 
about an hour and-adialt. It shouhl then be 
classed, fanned ami picked. Before being bagged 
tor market, about the same quantity is putlnto 
the pans, heateil to the same degree as before and 
is again worked rapidly to and fro for about two 
hoars until it has assumed all the bloom it will 
take, — usually a whitish green ; but if the leaf 
is bard and old when plucked, the colour will turn 
out yellow green, and will require colouring matter, 
usually pi)unded soapstone. It is in this last pan- 
ning that the colouring- matter is pat in, but I 
believe the Europeans in this district do not use 
it unless requested to do so by the native bnyeis. 
It is easily detected by taking a handful of unadul- 
terated tea and breathing on it, wlii-n ic will be 
found that as the damp dries olF the bloom will 
return, but will entirely disappear in adulterated 
tea. The tea is then packed hot iu 200-1 b bags 
composed of an inner cloth and an outer gunny 
bag, and is despatched in this state to marke't. In 
heating the pans, wood is always used, as it isi 
quite as efficient as, and much cheaper than char- 
coal. 
IN ASSAM. 
The following me.thod of making green tea in 
Assam is furnished by an oid tea planter :— In 
making green tea, tiie flush, i.e., the bad and first 
two leaves ot the young shoot, after being picked 
and weighed, is carried at once into the "factory, 
and large iron pans, twent-five inches in diameter' 
and five inches deep, fixed in brick-work over hot 
wood fires, are piled up with the fresh leave.*. The 
operator in charge then rapidly turns the leaves 
round, at first with his hand, but afterwards, when 
the leaves get too hot, with pl couple of pieces of 
wood, like large spoons, until they become per- 
fectly flaccid. The contents of the pans are then 
thrown out on the rolling table or if machinery is 
used into the rolling machine, and thoroughly 
ndled with a sort of figure-of-eight motion until 
every indiviilual leaf has become twisted and 
lost some of its .sap. The leaf is then taken and 
spread out thinly on sheets in the sun, or if there 
is none, as is often tlie case in the manufacturing 
season, on fine wire gauze or bamboo trays over 
charcoal fires, until it turns a greenish- black, and 
becomes very sticky to the touch. It is 'then 
transferred to the rol lint," tables or nuichine, and 
gets a few minutes rolling to retwisc any of the 
leaves that may have been uncnrleJ, aiul is tlien 
put into deep iron pans, measuring thirteen inches 
in diameter by nine in de|,th, fixed like the- 
large ones, but slightly sloping forward, in brick 
work over furnaces, in which there is a hot fire 
A man stamls opposite each pan, which is filled 
full, and the mass is tarned over and over slowly 
tor about three hours, when it has become almost 
dry. It is then put into long narrow bags, 
which are filled as full as possible, and then screwed 
up tightly, this operatinn lianug the effect of 
turning a large quantity of the larger and coarser 
leaves into gunpowder, and therel)y enhancing 
their value. Next clay the bags are opened, and 
