----------------------------------+ | | | | | | REMARKS. | | | ----------------------------------+ | It will be seen from this | table as follows:-- | 1. About Rs. 90,000 of capital | is necessary to make a plantation| as quick as this. If | made more gradually, very | much less would suffice. | 2. There is no yearly profit | until the fifth year. | 3. By the eighth year all the | outlay is recovered. | This table has been prepared | with great care, and the | authority for the figures | assumed has been arrived | at in previous parts. (_See_ | headings of the Cols. for the | pages and note at foot.) | I believe this table represents | truly what Tea, with | all the necessary advantages | detailed in the next | page, can do. | ----------------------------------+ At the following pages will be found the calculations for the figures assumed:--Col. 2, page 170; Col. 8, pages 70 and 162; Col. 10, pages 164, 165, 166. The necessities for success in Tea are:-- 1. A good climate. 2. A good site. 3. Perfect knowledge in Tea cultivation and Tea manufacture on the proprietor’s part or that of his manager. 4. Seed from a high class of plants. 5. Local or cheap imported labour. 6. Facilities for manuring. 7. Cheap transport. Do not dispense, though, with even _one_ of the seven points named, for the truth is simply, that Tea will pay _very_ well with all the above advantages, but will utterly fail without them. Such is my advice to intending beginners. To those who have gardens, I say, reduce your areas till of the size you can really cultivate them highly, and procure manure at any cost. I shall not have written in vain, and Tea enterprise in India will flourish, if the motto of planters in future be-- “A full area, highly cultivated.” FOOTNOTES: [78] See my estimate for cultivation at page 84. I there estimate Rs. 100 per acre per annum from the sixth year, so that Mr. Burland six years ago had come to the same opinion about high cultivation that I hold. [79] Calculating Tea by maunds is convenient, inasmuch as pounds necessitate such lengthy figures for all calculations. The maund here employed is, however, quite an arbitrary measure. It is _not_ the Indian maund, it equals and is represented exactly by 80 lbs. Any number of maunds multiplied by 80 will naturally give the lbs. of Tea.