[58] It is not essential that the same quantity of Tea shall be in each box.
[59] This should, except the lid part, be put on the boxes before the Tea is packed.
[60] The object of stamping the end, as well as the lid, is that when the boxes are piled one above the other the mark can be read.
[61] In practice the basket in which the leaf is measured being made to hold 2½ lbs., for which a ticket is given, representing 2 pice, the leaf to make a maund of Tea does not really cost so much.
[62] After experience has shown me this amount, when any quantity of Tea is made, is too high—Rs. 12 to 13 would be nearer the mark.
[63] The cost for seed, nurseries, and transplanting increases each year as the area over which vacancies may exist enlarges.
[65] The expenditure for planting the 100 acres each year includes cutting and clearing jungle, removing roots, digging, staking, pitting, and sowing the seed. In fact all expenditure including part of the pay of Manager and Establishment. The rate per acre decreases each year, because each year there is more expenditure of other kinds, which helps to pay for the Manager and Establishment.
[66] The reason why the rate for cultivation on the 100 acres planted each of the three first years increases each year is given in the table and remarks at pages [84] and [85].