--------------------+------+-----+-------+------+-----+---- | | | | | | Rate of Manuring | | | | | | | A | B | C | D | E | F | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------+------+-----+-------+------+-----+---- | Mds. | Rs. | Mds. | Rs. | Rs. | Rs. One md. to 10 plants| 250 | 47 | 2-1/2 | 125 | 78 | 70 One md. to 15 plants| 166 | 31 | 2 | 100 | 69 | 62 One md. to 20 plants| 125 | 23 | 1-1/2 | 75 | 52 | 46 --------------------+------+-----+-------+------+-----+---- It is not too much to calculate that this will add respectively 1-1/2, 2, and 2-1/2 maunds of Tea per acre to the yield, and I have carried this out in the table and shown the results. I quite believe the results shown will be obtained by manuring, and I base my opinion on practice not theory. _N.B._--I have deducted Rs. 8 for the first, Rs. 7 for the second, and Rs. 6 for the third, as the probable cost of putting in the manure, as it may have to be carried from the factory to the garden. If purchased after being placed between the lines (and if manure is bought of adjacent villagers they will so place it), the cost would be less. The above table, of course, only applies to localities where cattle manure can be purchased at 3 annas per maund, including carriage to the factory. The value of the extra yield of Tea is estimated at only Rs. 50 per maund in the above table, because the leaf which will give one maund of Tea is worth no more, as follows:-- Rs. A. P. Probable price obtainable for one maund or 80 lbs. Tea in Calcutta, at 14 annas a lb. all round (a fair calculation, one year with the other, if it is well manufactured). 70 0 0 Deduct cost, manufacture, packing, transport, and broker’s charges as set out in the chapter on “cost manufacture,” page 162 16 9 0 -------------- Value of leaf which will make one maund Tea 53 7 0 ============== But I prefer estimating it at Rs. 50 only, to be on the safe side. FOOTNOTE: [22] It is brought and placed between the lines, in one garden in the Chittagong district, for one to two annas a maund! CHAPTER XV. DISTANCES APART TO PLANT TEA BUSHES. When the idea existed, which it did once, that ploughs could be used to cultivate a garden between the lines, these latter, with this object, were placed unnecessarily wide apart. All distances may be seen in different gardens, viz., 6 × 6, 6 × 3, 6 × 4, 5 × 4, 5 × 5, 4 × 3, &c., &c.