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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
(June t, i8g2. 
by importing the goods direct from the eatate, 
which is in Geylooi and thua avoiding the possi- 
bility of adulrerniion and the profiis enjoyed by 
the middleman. Bu-^ides, the la iy scents there sr^ 
to be bleudirs, packers, end sellers of the RatueaM, 
and the promoters are most anxious to make the 
Association known as widely as possible, in order to 
benf fit all those for whose benefit it is intended. 
Although the Aasoolation especiaHy recommends the 
Ceylon teas, it supiilies various otiirr kinds and blends, 
tbni suiting the toKtes of all customcre. It is always 
said that OeUoo tea u more wholesome and much 
cleaner than that of either China or Japans as it is 
prepared eutindy by maebinery and not by the hands 
and feet — frequently nnwn-^hoi— of the natives. The 
prospootas ts.«>ued hy the Company contains a few 
hints on the brewing of tea, and there is no doubt 
whatever that in many households those hints are 
are most necessary. The terms of the *• La tie-’ Own 
'Tea AsaooimioT) ” are strictly cash, and the prices 
vary from Is. 8d. lo 4i. Orders of seven pounds and 
upwards will be deliviTcd carriage free to any part 
ot the United Kingdom, and those f'>r less than that 
weight will be sent subject to the usual Parcels Post 
rates. 8«mple packets of 14 ozs. will be forwarded 
prsl free fur the price of 1 lb. Should a cbeot of 
10 or 20 lb. be required, it can be packed on the 
estate itself and sent direct and nnopene 1 
to the purchaser. No agent incurs any liability, and 
the priuoipnl injauctiou is that she must slways deliver 
each parcel to the customer onopened ami in the 
condition in which it is received from the AHt-oci>)tioti. 
Also that small we»k1y orders should be accumu ated 
at least to the amount of 7 Ib., which will be sent 
free to the agent for distribution amongst tbo pur- 
chasers, Any agent wto is not able to dispose of 
five pounds of tea per week will be disqualified, 
and another appoiu ed for that District. Good com- 
mission is paid by the Company, and the amount 
of it ia forwarded every Saturday to the agents. At 
Christmas a bonoa of 2^ poroiot. is given on the 
amonnt of oommit'SioQ obtained during the year." 
M. Mail, 
MR. WILLIAM JACKSON. 
[We greatly regret the delay in republishing 
the following memoir of Mr. Jackson, tbo great 
tea maebinist, which appeared, with a very good 
likenesB, in the Indian Planters^ Gazette. Illness, 
from wbioh even newspaper editors are not exempt, 
must be our excuse lor overlooking this and perhaps 
some other matters, in the avalanches of ex- 
obangea " which reach us from all parts of the 
world. — E d T* A.] 
We have alrea y given onr snbsoribera tbe por- 
trait and history of more than one tea-planti^r wboRe 
inventions have made them famous, and the fact of 
the originat of this p cturo being on a to India 
enables us to publish tbe following skotoh of a gentle- 
man whose woudrously clever patents have made 
him drservedly reuuuned wherever tbo tea industry 
fiourishes. 
Mr. William Jaekpon was born in 184U at the farm 
of Davo, on Lord Kintore’s estate of Ke tholl, in 
Ab«‘rdeeDahire, Scotland. 
At the age oi 6 years bis father died and be romemhere 
little of him ; but in after life was lold 1 y his mother 
that hia father bad more than once remarked, 
** We will make aomethiog of that laddie yet.” 
His moat vivid recollect on of early ‘ite was about 
the age of 10 years. About this lime he ftdl a victim 
to tjpboid fever, and when sufifioiently couvalrscent 
be getting about, a portable engine and thraHhing 
maohine was for tbe first time brought to tbe farm to 
tbraah the crop, and the ougiLe-driver’s name was 
George Wood. 
Being faioinated with tbe engiuo and not strong 
enough to move ab uL a wiulin ” of straw was 
placed near the ongino for him to sit on and he 
go plied '^Qoordie Wid” with questionst that hia patioooc 
pot exhausted and he was told “ If ye spere ony mare 
qus>‘tionH I Ul pit ye in the furnace.” 
Being enamoured with be wbieU and belts, 
nothing wruld now satisfy him but make a work- 
ing model of a thrashing mnebine, and this be so 
oonstruQted in a very primitive way in tbe carpen- 
ter's sh p and smithy, which were on tbe farm tor 
rei airing and sbarponing agrioultnral impleououts, 
and the belt was passed over tbe griDdeione to 
gaia the necessary speed on tbe drum, the farm 
servants wiUiugly driving tbe handle on the summer 
evenings; wbilct moes plucked frim tbe roots of 
troi''H was passed through the small machines, tbo 
sand ami grit coming out as tbe corn wbiL-t the moss 
was delivered as straw. 
Mr. Jackson’s eldest brother James, and whom 
he doficnbts as one of the worthiest men wlio ever 
lived, now came of age, and took over the manage- 
mni.t of the farm, and seeing bow hopeless it was to 
keep him out amongst wbe» lR, set to work and got 
him into Messrs. George Murray & Co.'s iron foundry 
at Banff, on probation. 
In (lie meantime an excellent neigbliour, Mr. 
Bisst't of Artauiiiee, and a Mr. Anaand of luvorurio, 
thought that Wil'io J«ck>on should serve bis time 
in a more advanced engineer’s shop than that of 
Banff, and on their own account went to Aberdeen 
and obtained from tbe celebrated firm of Messrs. 
Hall RiiRsell & Co., eug'ueers and vbip-builders, an 
appri'Dtice^hip for him. 
b^om this time ouward Mr. Jackson remembers all 
that happened to him. He quickly showed abilities 
above the average apprentice, and loi g ere bo bad com- 
pleted his 5 years he had individual respousibility 
placed on hie shoulders, and on the completion of 
his time, Mr. ItassHl), the manager, wa^ roost unwill- 
ing to let him go, and wages wero offered much 
in advance of the usual as an inducement for him to 
stay ; but Mr. Jackson was bent on foreign lauds, and 
notniug woall then alter bis decision to go abroad. 
Ills brother John was ntthis time Manager of the 
Scot iflh As^am Tea Co., in Assam, and had suggested 
Oblcutla MB a likely place for him to come to. On 
teaching this Mr. John had a letter w'a>ting forbim, 
stating that if nothing turned up suitable to come on 
to AsHam, snd probably be might become a tea planter. 
Notbii g suitable was found and Mr. Jaoksou went 
oR to Aasim, and singularly enough to say, Mr. 
William Lawrie, now the successfnl Manager of the 
Jharzio Arsoo atioo, was then aRsistant to Mr. John 
J.icksou, and a week before Mr. William Jackson's 
arrival resigtod bis appointment to take the manuge- 
meut of the LoajHQ K date, and Mr. John simply put 
his brother in Mr. Lawfiu’a place. Mr. Jackson re- 
lates rather an amusing iticidunt of hia first experi- 
ences of Assam life. When be reached Kooklea- 
mook, the steam oat station on the river, it was 
about 4 p.m-, and a letter awaited him from 
Mr. John eiving instruolions to put himself in 
the bi an r s hands who would bring him safely to 
Muzongab. This was done and the first two hours 
were spent in a dng*out boat wbioh tuuk him into a 
hheel or sballow piece of water, tbe (dges of which 
terminated in mud in which tbe buffalues wallow. 
Here an elephant was waiting him which was brought 
alongside tbe boat and caused to kneel down in the 
mn<i for Mr. J. io mount. 
On attempting to do this, however, the monster beast 
trumpeted so loudly, that Mr* Jackson made a bound- 
ing leap, and lanoed himnelf headlong in tbe mad and 
wetter as far from the boast and boat as be could, 
out of which mess be tvaa lifted by tho ooolics and put 
on the hatlU, andiu this state reached Mazeugah abv.ut 
10 p.m. little or none tbe worse of tbe fright he bad got. 
Mr. John Jackson about this time had decided on 
naanufftoturing all tbe leaf at tlelbakab, and resolved 
on making this a central factory for the whole of the 
Company’s gardt-DS ; and as a consequanco Mr, Wil* 
liam was traunferod there with himeetf and got charge 
of the tea-bouseand the making of the tea. 
The leaf now being all broui<ht to one centre for 
manipulaiion greatly increased tho work to be aocom* 
plisbed in tbe tea-bouae ; and as there was only a two 
plated Kinmood's roller, wbioh only partially rolled tbe 
