Millions 16s 
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Diagram showing the amount of Indian and Ceylon Teas produced in each 
year ; also the amount consumed in the United Kingdom and taken by other countries. 
lillionslbs 
280 
The grey columns show the Indian and Ceylon Crops in each year. 
^The green columns show the Hotne Consumption. 
The red columns shew the quantities taken by countries outside Great Britain. 
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The above diagram shows that with the aid of outside markets increasing 
supplies have been deal^ with. The anaual increases, amounting in the aggregate to over 
lOO milhons pounds during the period embraced by the diagram, have been absorbed 
by the displacement of China or the increased use of Tea in this country and abroad. 
The actual increase in the use of British grown Tea is distinctly satisfactory so far as 
It goes, but in face of fuijther increases in supplies, and the small margin of "profit left 
to the producer, the demand will have to be made to continue, if possible, without further 
concessions in prices. Both the Indian and Ceylon Tea Associations are doing good work 
in opening up new markets, but they will require more support from the Planters, as their 
difficulties are increasing instead of diminishing. The chief difficulty is again the fictitious 
value at which the wage-paying rupee is kept. It is in the endeavour to open up the impor- 
tant markets of Russia and America, representing some 150,000,000 to 200,000,000 lbs. of 
tea annually, that the difference in Exchange tells so severely in favor of the China article. 
The sympathies of the consumers of Tea in the United Kingdom have naturally been with 
their own kith and kin producing the article in their own Colonies ; but there is no 
such sympathy with British-grown Tea in many other countries. Consequently, in foreign 
markets Ceylon and Indian Teas have to relv entirelv on their merits. 
We have in many previous circulars pointed out where new markets are to be 
obtained, and in conclusion we desire to impress upon all interested in producing British- 
grown Tea the necessity of keeping up the quality of their produce, and substantially 
helping the movements made towards the extension of new markets. 
