---------------------------------------------------- LEAF RESULTS. -----+--------------+-------+-----------------+----- State| Tickets | Number| Flushes | of +-------+------+ of +-----+-----+-----+Total leaf |By leaf|Paid | Garden| 20 | 21 | 22 |leaf -----+-------+------+-------+-----+-----+-----+----- 220W | | {| 3 | „ | 170 | „ | 600D | 410 |360 {| 5 | 310 | „ | „ | | | {| 7 | 112 | „ | „ | | | {| 8 | „ | „ | 228 | 820 | | | | | | | D | 462 |440 {| 3 | „ | 515 | „ | | | {| 9 | 410 | „ | „ | 925 | | | | | | | | | {| 1 | 430 | „ | „ | W | 200 |180 {| 2 | „ | „ | 160 | | | {| 3 | „ | 210 | „ | 800 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -----+-------+------+-------+-----+-----+-----+----- If this system is carried out, no Tea (exceeding a pound or so) can be stolen without its being at once missed, and the importance of this cannot be exaggerated. Tea proprietors do not guess _how_ much is lost in this way. Maunds upon maunds might be stolen in many gardens, and unless the theft were accidentally discovered there is nothing in the Tea accounts to show it to the manager. I have suppositiously filled up the three first days of the form. The 820 lbs. leaf picked on Sunday is made into Tea on Monday. The 198 is written down Sunday evening. On Tuesday morning, when the Tea is weighed and found to be 200 lbs., that is entered in the Monday line, as also the percentage. On Tuesday evening, after it is sifted and made into different Teas, it is weighed again and found to be 199 lbs., and so entered. In dry weather after sifting, owing to dust flying off, it is always a little less. In wet weather, on the contrary, it increases in weight. In the Tuesday line where “W” shows it was a wet day and the Tea 230 lbs. before sifting it, is 233 afterwards. This is owing to moisture imbibed, and it is the only objection to sifting daily, whatever the weather. The advantages of the plan, though, are so great, as explained, that I put up with this, and practically I do not find it detrimental. Of course, as previously explained, all moisture is driven off before the Tea is _packed_. However, to make all quite safe, after a very wet damp day, the Teas might be re-dried for a few minutes over charcoal before being put into their respective bins. I do not do this myself though, and do not think it necessary.