_Jackson’s Dryer._--A long and exhaustive report upon it from Mr. Carter, of the Chandpore Garden, Chittagong, appears in the _Tea Gazette_, November 7, 1881. It is too long to insert here. No one can read it and doubt that the trials were most carefully conducted, and without bias of any kind. The results are not in favour of the machine. Moreover, were Jackson’s Dryers a real success I should have been aware of the fact long ago. I incline to the belief Mr. Jackson thinks he can do better, for he has lately brought out a Self-acting Tea Dryer regarding which the following appeared in the _Tea Gazette_:-- JACKSON’S NEW SELF-ACTING TEA DRYER. Messrs. W. and J. Jackson have invented a new apparatus that will deal with the Tea itself throughout the drying process, and thus, they submit, secure a perfection in the dessication of the leaf not hitherto obtained. The objects arrived at by the new invention are as follows:-- 1.--After the leaf is fed into the machine it requires no more attention until it is discharged dry. 2.--Every individual leaf is simultaneously exposed in precisely a similar manner to the action of the heated air, thus producing an unvaried and perfectly even dried leaf. 3.--The Tea is steadily but very slowly kept in motion, thereby dispensing with the tedious and tiring watchfulness of attendants, hitherto required in Tea drying on the tray system. 4.--There are no trays about the machine to handle, and it is, therefore, thoroughly durable and cannot get out of order. In operating with the machine, a boy or attendant has simply to spread the leaf on a slowly moving feeding web or band, which carries it forward and places it in the machine, where it is steadily but inactively kept in motion, and in due course is discharged dry and crisp from a shoot at the delivery end; so long, therefore, as the attendant continues to supply the machine with leaf, it will steadily dry and discharge it, and should he have occasion to leave the machine at any time, no injury can take place to the leaf in the apparatus, as it must pass on and be discharged. The leaf is continuously, but very slowly, turned over, disentangled and individually presented to the action of the heated air by a peculiar combination of concentric cylinders, thus ensuring not only the most uniform fermentation, but the drying of each leaf being simultaneously effected alike must produce an unvaried briskness and quality of liquor not obtainable from any of the methods of drying at present known. The machine will dry about forty maunds of green leaf per day, and will be approximately 9′ long, 3-1/2′ wide, and 8′ high. The apparatus will take very little driving, which can either be effected by steam or hand power. It is very simple, easily erected, and self-contained.