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[Aug. 1, 1903. 
in the conntvy, and in the company's own shopa at 
Home and abioad. Machines will be found — some 
exist already— which will weigh out pounds oE tea and 
tie them up in neat firm packe'a, or seal them up 
in canisters bearing a graceful pirtcait o£ George 
Washington in the act of pertoiming a political 
hyperbole, or some such tasteful decoration, designed 
to suit the loc.ility of the intended sale and push it 
to the ntmost. 
* BOX-MAKING. 
Among miscellaneous departments, we may be sure 
that box-making will rank high, I imagine that we 
shall not go on tor ever making clumsy boxes from Mina 
and such like wood, or importing ornate cases of 
veneer work with their inconvenient and costly lead 
foil linings. What is to prevent us from m aking 
use of our waste lauds to raise such plants as will 
yield a coarse fibre of some sort without great cost 
which together with suitable forest timber can be 
worked up under pressure into a seamless box of coarse 
but serviceable and strong paper. The upper edge of 
the box would carry a grove into which a similarly 
mould-pressed lid would engage, so that some deodo- 
rised bitumous or resinous cement run into the grove 
before closing and clamping, would render the box 
both air and damp proDf. Previous to packing, 
however, both case and lid would be treated in a vat to 
a process of electro deposition of some cheap metal 
both inside and out, which will effectually block the 
pores and render the box proof against every ill it is 
heir to, from white ants to a solitary jaunt down the 
Hocghly. ■ Even the canisters will be made on this 
principle, and all classes of goods being packed and 
fastened down in an atmosphere devoid of moisture, 
it only remains to pass them under the printing 
rollers to the dry stove, or direct into the company's 
railway waggons. 
CENTRAL STOHE. 
Another department tending largely to economy and 
efficiency will be the Central Store. Having all the 
machinery in one building, it will not be necessary to 
maintain stocks of spare parts in isolated factories all 
over the country-side, and the machinery employed 
being all of the largest possible units, there will be few 
spare parts necessary. Such expensive items as belting 
shafting, pulleys, etc, will be conspicuous by their 
absence more or less, as each machine will be driven 
by its own motor. Hero too will be stored all tools 
use3 in the garden work and cultivation, which are not 
in use or aie necessary for renewals. Such articles 
for instance, as pruning knives, which are in use 
tor two months in the year, will, when done with, 
be counted in and, despatched to the Central Store, 
where they will be cleaned tip, machine sharpened, 
and, save where condemned as unfit for future 
use be greased and put away till next season. In 
the same way all kodallies, forks, axes, etc., will be 
issued ia proportion to the labour and work, and 
gave in case of argumentation of the labour force, 
no new tool of any sort will be issued except in ex- 
change for an old one condemned by the divisional 
manager, and then only on his requsition ; and such 
old tools will immediately be sheared in halves or 
otherwise defaced, so as to render it impossible t« 
steal them, and reproduce them a second time dis- 
honestly in demand for another new tool. 
As a digression, it would be interesting to know 
exactly what becomes of all the old tools which year 
'after year are condemned all over the tea districts, — 
here would be a small fortune in collecting them 
f transport r.ites were not so high. In any case on 
a vast estate, such as we are considering, the collection 
of old scinp iron and steel which must accumulate 
in the ordinary way of business, besides acting as a 
check on new issuea of expensive stores, will re- 
prestnl no despicable &um when loaded into the 
comia )y's own waggons on the spot and forwaro!ed 
dirtcl to the Calcutta foundrieB. 
In connection with the store room will hi the repair 
department, where small pieces of machinery can be 
turned out as required, a woo3 working michine or 
two to rt"> planing aud raortisiog work, for which we 
now piy heavy rates to Chinamen, aud a siii lU printing 
place for mivkicg the b.ixes and decogating canisters 
and wrappers. All these, including the store, will 
be under tiie charge of an Engineer Assistant who 
will understand the use and repair of everything 
under his charge, and whom, therefore, it will bs 
impossible to hoodwink in the matter of fraudulent 
demand of articles in stock. 
This then is a general tentative idea of what the 
Tea Factory of the future will be like in the not very 
distant future ; there have been some items of auxi- 
liary machinery purposely omitted, but as this paper 
has already exceeded the limits originally intended 
we will conclude by remarking that the* staff, in 
whose hands the new company's interests will be 
placed, will be an efficient stafi, in fact pfficiency in 
machinery and men will be their only raison d'etre. It 
ia probable, moreover, that if in entirely British hands 
every emploee will be a shareholder in proportion to 
his position, and will be paid for extra efficiency and 
encouraged by a system of rewards to cheapen the cost 
of his or anyone else's department. But as a large 
combine is a machine, ' with no attributes of mercy 
to temper its justice, promotion will go by merit 
only, and the inefficient or indifferent, whecher share- 
holder or not, will be rnthelessly weeded out, with 
as much consideration for his feelings or circums- 
tances as would be shown to a worn or broken part of 
a steam engine, — Iniian Planters' Gazette- 
A NEW KIND OP PADDY. 
CELEBRATED KINSHU PADDY OF JAPAN' 
(i BUSHED EXHIBITED AT HENARATODBA A. H. SHOW 
BY J. P. WILLIAM.) 
Imported from United States Department of Agri* 
culture aud gro7;tt by the Exhibitor at Kola Estate' 
Udanmita, Siyane Korale, Eist Veyangoda. 
Mr. Bi-nst A. Bessey of the above department wrote 
dated Washington D.C., I9th March, 1902 I have 
written to parties in Louisiana who have the Eiusha 
rice, aud as soon'aa I have obtained it I shall send you a 
supply. I have taken pleasure in requesting that Farm- 
ers' Bulletin No. 110 be sent to you ; this describes rice 
culture in the United Statts. That part of it des- 
cribing rice culture in Louisiana and Texas will be of 
special interest to you, as they are the two States in 
which the Kinshu rice has been established. The three 
advantages of the Kinshu rice over other varieties are 
the following : (1) A larger yield : this variety yielding 
from 20 to i!0 per cent, more than the best varieties 
heretofore grown in this country, (2) Harder grain : 
this is a very important point for rice in this country, 
as on account of this quality the percentage of grains 
broken in milling process is reduced from 30 to 40 or 
even more in the varieties ordinarily grown to from 
but 3 to 5 per cent. (3) The straw is still green when 
t ie grain is ripe, so thxt after the latter is thrashed oai 
the straw makes a very good hay. 
From Year Booh of the United States Department of 
Agriculture, 1900. 
While the rice industry of the Snxth, and specially of 
Louisiana and Tex is has grown rapidly in rocent years, 
the' introduction of the Kinshu rice frorh Japan if .a 
necessary to lift to a position among the great cereil 
of the country. Of this rice Dr. S. A. Knapp of Loui- 
siana who procured the original importation in 1S93 
reports as follows : — 
f This year has thoroughly proved the superiority of 
the Kinshu rice in every way uuder favourable condi- 
tions ; the yield is on an average fully 30 per cent more 
than that of Honduras or South Carolina (the ordinary 
varieties), Undor favourable conditions Kinshu ricQ 
