'816 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTtRIST. [^TuNe 1, 190S; 
out contain Dhe following! machinery. Two 10 H P 
horizontal engines, two 12 H P locomotive boilers, 
three Jackson's rapid tea rollers, two 20 tray up- 
draft and two large down-draft Davidson's 
Sirocco dryers, two Davidson's small tea sorters, 
two Jonas' Taxidianemelers, two Reid's tea 
cutters, two Davidson's Sirocco suction fans and 
one Potters 48' Disc fan. Of the above machinery 
one of the rapid tea '-oilers was recovered in July 
and one of the Sin o dryers in September from 
the Secretary of Si ?e for India. All the machines 
were in good work ' order at the close of the 
year, 
PBOSPECTS.— Mr King estimates the next 
outturn of tea at a lakh, sixty-five thousand five 
hundred pounds, viz., 85,5001b. from the Navy 
Bay Garden, 45,000 lb, fiom the Goplakabang 
Garden, and 35,000 lb. from the Kalatang 
extension,— Indian Planting and Gardening, 
April 18. 
PARS FOR PLANTERS. 
(By One of Them.) 
1.— In the Gakden. 
Don't do your heavy pruning with a hoe :— it is bad 
for the hoe. 
Don't cut yourself with your knife when pruning :— 
the sharp points on the bushes are there for the 
purpose, , , , Ml , 
Don't sit on a newly-pruned bush :— you wUl have 
to walk yonr pony home. . , , ^ 
Don't pluck leaf with a sickle:— you might cut 
yourself. , , ... 
Don't rest your foot on the scale when weighmg 
in :— especially if you wear "Small Policeman's." 
Don't swear when the hail starts t atting off fine 
Beoond flush :— it will go on cutting just the same. 
Don't run yonr drains uphill :— if absolutely neces- 
sary, a steam pump is oheuper. 
Don't report to your Agents that the bushes are 
covered with webs spun by redspiders :— they may 
reply by returo of post. 
Don't arrange your garden and moke a progjamme 
for the Agent's travelling Superintendent :— he will 
certainly take the other road. 
Don't'bluster when your coolies go out on strike:— 
it does not haste matters ; take the opportunity for o 
bin shikar. 
Don't wipe the aoor with the biggest Sudar on the 
garden in the presence of his coolies :— they may 
return the compliment. 
Don't, when newly out from home, call things by 
their vernacular names in the Burra Mem-Sahib's 
bungalow if you have learnt the words on the Mela:— 
better verify the information. 
Don't keep your Assistant out the whole day on one 
work, with jast bare time for meals, for weeks on end : 
—he lasts longer with a rest and change occasionally. 
Don't instruct your Manager on planting matters: 
—he has probably been as many years in Tea as you 
have months,— Indian Planters Gazette, April 18. 
MICA DEPOSITS IN INDIA. • 
Mr. T H Holland contributes an interesting and 
important article on "The Mica Deposits of India" 
totheil/cHiow-softheGeological Survey. Hediseussea 
the mineralogical and chemical characters, the geo- 
logical occurrence and distribution, the uses of mica, 
and the milling practice. Ciystals or 'books' of 
muscovite-mica have been obtained in Nellore 
District, measuring 10 feet across the basal planes, 
but usually tliey .are much smnller. This mica 
occurs in granite-pegmatite, and being the most 
delicate mineral in the rock, it is the first to show 
the effects of crushing earth-movements, so that 
large quantities of valuable mineral have been 
destroyed ; but the author observes it is on account 
of the remarkable stability of the Indian Penin- 
suH, the geologically long and perfect quiescence 
it has enjoyed, that India is able to boast of the 
nest mica deposits in the world, — Pioneer^, 4^pril,J8. 
THE FUTURE OF INDIAN GEiEEN TEA. 
In Indian tea-growing c"rcles a good deal of atten- 
tion is being paid to green tea, and the way in which 
the manufacture is being taken up, despite the rise in 
the price of black common qualities, shows that our 
leaders are taking a sound view of the future prospects 
of tea generally. Permanently inflated prices for 
common teas are not — on the face of things — likely to 
be brought about nor are they even greatly desirable 
unless they can be secured without prejudicing the 
sales of the better qualities, a result which has never 
hitherto been attained. Even now the price of well- 
made green tea from common producing gardens com- 
pares favourably with blacks, and when the inevitable 
reaction comes and ''teas for price" come back to 
more normal levels cf value, green teas will show up 
even better than they do now. In the circumstances 
our Indian business men are wise in not relaying their 
efforts to put a really first-class article in green tea 
upon the markets of the world, and so far, it must be 
admitted, great success has attended their efforts. Of 
coarse, there are better things to come aad we under- 
stand that arrangements are well forward for 
A CENTRAL PACTOBY OB HONG AT CALCUTTA 
where the most approved and recent systems of pan- 
firing green teas for finish will be carried out under 
the management of an expert. Teas finished in this 
manner in Calcutta have already been accorded a high 
place in the estimation of American and London tea 
men, and Messrs. George White & Go, in their Annual 
Report to hand, make special mention of the Calcutta 
process. Pan-firing needs very special knowledge and 
application owing to the delicate gradations obtainable 
by the modifications possible in the process, but whereas 
the trouble is greater than that necessary for merely 
polishing green teas cold, the extra trouble is amply 
repj^d by the superisr results to be obtained. It is 
highly desirable that measures should be taken for 
ensuring some sort of uniformity in the green teas 
ludia is now in a position to put forth in fair quantities. 
In this connection we may quote a valued London 
correspondent whose intimate acquaintance with the 
tea world entitles him to speak to the point. " A 
desideratum," he says in writing to us under date 
27th March, " is a 
UNIFORlM NOMENCLATCRK FOU OUR GREEN TEA. 
We have now ' coloured and uncoloured with the 
several variants of ' finished and unfinished,' ' true 
green ' and ' faced ' tea, all ihore or less inexact and 
confusing. It is a matter ' continues our correspond-^ 
ent. ' that could be settled by your Calcutta Asso- 
ciation in conference with the heads of the trade in 
New York and Canada. An official pronounoementon 
the subject of green tea is what is wanted.' Now, of 
course, we know that the confusion has been largely 
introduced from Ceylon, where green tea was an 
unfamiliar article when the manufacture was taken up, 
and perpetuated by those districts in India where the 
manufacture had been forgotten by long disuse, so that 
the article became new to them. In our North- 
western districts there has never been any confusion, 
except on the point whether green tea could be made 
by methods hitherto unknown to those parts, Still, 
as our correspondent remarks, it is unfortunate that so 
many misconceptions and misdepciiptions should have 
arisen. With regard to the China type teas made in: 
the North West no confu.';ion is possible. All China, 
type teas are pan-fired aud so possess the distinctive 
colour in the dry leaf. To men accustomed to this 
process the uncoloured 
