TEA RAISING IN THE UNITED STATES. The Department of Agr Tea in iculture Presents American ablet Form, GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. The Department of Agriculture has been making some experiments, which from present results seem to promise a revolution in the method of pack- ing and preparing tea, The usual method adopted by tea raisers here- tofore has been quite crude in that the dried tea leaves were mercoly stowed in a loose and bulky package. The effort of the Department of Agriculture is to furnish pure tea in a most con- venient form and in & manner to pro- tect the leaves from losing any of their strength through exposure to the air, This has resulted in a meth- od of compressing the leaves into tab- lets, each of sufficient size to make a delicious cup of tea. What would or dinarily make a big package of tea can by this unique method be placed in a space about the size of a safety match box, Another significant feature of the experiment is that the tea. used people of the United States are aware that tea is grown in this country. As a matter of fact, however, this coun. try not only raises tea but produces an article, sald by experts, to be of a higher grade than imported tea and which has no equal for cup qualities, For years there has been a gigan- tie struggle between British and Chi- nese tea growers for supremacy in the world’s tea trade. The most im- portant feature of this struggle has been the substitution by the British of modern and specially constructed machinery in place of the ancient man. ual operations which the Chinese seem to envelop in mystery. Labor in In. dia, while cheap, was not cheap enough to accomplish the overthrow of “the Chinese producers and leave a margin of profit. The conflict between the rivals thus settled down to a trial of watch, thermometer, and steam or TEA TABLETS. The Bulk of Loose Leaves 1s Equal to One Box of Tablets, in these tablets is not imported, but,! water power, on the other hand, is grown at the experimental tea gardens of the De partment of Agriculture at Summer- ville, 8S. C. A few weeks ago Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry received a large box of sam- ple packages from Summerville. Each box of compressed tea contains twenty tablets about the size of a cent, but probably twice as thick. The various kinds of tea such as Oolong, American Breakfast, black and green, etc, are all prepared in tablet form ranging from sepia to dark green In color. The tablets as heretofore stated | are made from tea grown at the Pine hurst tea gardens Summerville, 8. C. and contain the purest of leaves thought to be unsurpassed by any im ported tea. The tablet form is accom- plished by compression with machin ery. The directions furnished for us | ing the tablets are as follows: “Drop one tablet in teapot for each eup of tea desired Pour in freshly boiled water, and after allowing it to stand four minutes, stir gently, strain and serve. If made in the cup, 1 tablet. Tea will immediately se the bottom of the cup, then strain the Hquor into another cup, and sugar and eream as desired” While it is explained by officials of the Department that this new form of tablet does not improve the flavor or taste of the tea, the chief value lies | {nthe fact-that-the-produet oceupiee | less space. A pound package of or dinary tea, it Is stated, would occupy about twenty-five times as much room as one of these little packages of twen. ty tea tablets prepared by the Agri cultural Department. Tea Handled by Machinery. The effort of the Department of Ag riculture for sometime has been (0 find means for providing food for the Army and Navy which could be pr ~ pared in such a way as to save space. | Tablet form naturally suggested itself to them and it is now believed by the government officials that the tea lets will fill the requirer of the general government in connection with compression tea into tablet form which should be considered of prime importance is that modern ma chinery takes the place of the ancient manual operations of the Chinese. Of course, a great advantage of the ma feature of An important tab- | nents not only | but those | of general merchandise and family use. | i chine in the tea Industry is reduction {in the price of labor, but a more im portant item is the elimination, as far as possible, of human contact, PB timony of travelers in a Oy is stated that the tea factor section are a ile anyt) cleanly, the result of the he gether of so many people clean or healthy people—in and often very hot workshops tea tablets as prepared by the Depart ment of Agriculture, are made from the tea after it has been dried and rolled It is then put through a bolling proc ess after which It is placed in small moulds about the size of a cent, where by means of great force, it is com pressed into small tablets, The op eration of the machinery is so perfect and so rapid that the leaves ‘can be y 3. it as mn nant no cramped tes | ted against the unique and unnecessarily elaborate functions of the | Chinese manipulator. On the up-to date British tea estate almost the whole process of tea making from the trans portation of the plucked leaf from the gardens to the factory, to the final boxing of the finished product, is per formed by machinery, With all this machinery, however, it is necessary that two processes must be performed by human hands—the plucking of the leat from the bushes and the cutting out of inferior leaf or accidental ad mixtures such as stems, straws, elc, from the finished product The Intense activity in ] the tea In- dustry of other lands awakened a like companying allurements of crockery! olenty a, Te een doned, Towards the close of thenon tury Dr. Charles U., Shepard, at his own expense renewed this plantation and later received the general assis tance of the Department of Agricul ture, This is the Pinehurst tea pur- sery of to-day. The American Tea Garden, The Pinehurst gardens embrace at present about 90 acres of tea plants in various stages of advancement and produce from a considerable of seed over 10,000 pounds of dry tea annually, The original seed for the Pinehurst tea gardens was procured through the offices of the United States for Government from the celebrated Drag on’s Pool estate near Hangchow, China, whose output commands too high a local price to admit of its exportation. Picking tea at Pinehurst is done by a carefully trained and well superin- tended corps of colored children who show great aptitude in this direction, In stances have occurred of tine plucking by one child in a day of over 0 pounds of greenleaf whereas the aver- age In the Orient hardly exceeds 20 to 30 pounds. Experiments at the Pine- hurst gardens show that tea from all modern climates could be made as pro- ductive here as at thelr source, a | change In climate and the difference in | cultivation and manufacture having a tendency to affect the quality of tea when prepared for the table. This is the reason a in the American grown of imported, {son tea and mild The aut { color | product | oF tea from The Pinehurst early sea is considered more delicate than that of cooler climates nn season tea Is stronger in taste and resemble the the more southern re Orient itary of Agriculture bell an excellent field for a tea Indu ume approx of annually | ittle less than one pound per capit Our » he save $40,000 O000n $150.01 0 000 for beverages It has been calculated that the American peo ple drink 400,000,000 gallons of tea nually. We are primarily a nation of coffee drinkers; In proportion )y our population we consfime only about one sixth as much tea as the Britair whether at home or in the colonie While the United States does not port the cheapest kind of tea, never! theless our importations are chiefly | of Inferior qualities. The first demand of American consumer is ften-times he will purchase tea of poor quality on account of ac that rom gions tl The at 16 Secre there $ tates r wo Dol : home con md ten people , pay at retail about a year for tea as against 1] alcoholic an- ’ the cheap ness, and o Colored Children Picking Tea. The First Tea J a Under the Flag. y RD) - ee — w—— COP OER I TTL ER Ie i be + vd a - ' " - . 5 the United the fir States. A hun-] tea piant was | 1 Barony on the | Charleston, 8. C the forties made culty at Green the fifties the Unt-| in} tad the interest in dred years 8 i A Mi idle i near th | Lf » n re States Asia and distribute of by Patent OMce through the south Atlan and Gulf states, which later gave to many thrift } gardens capable of supplying domestic wants, W e these experiments prove the adaptability of the tea plant to the | United States they did not prove the possibility of a lucrative industrial un. dertaking. The United States Depart. ment of Agriculture, however, in the last quarter of the 15th century un-| dertook an investigation along this lat- tie 1560 4 iHittie all ia man INSIDE OF THE TEA FACTORY AT SUMMERVILLE, 8. 0. picked. frond the Slant A goon An IR DE JM: than three hours, or in time for|tal station near Summerville, 8 OC into tablets and | For various unavoidable reasons » “ “ar lh Se and other gifts Nevertheless oon paratively small consignments of betts grades are imported for those who a! willing to pay for them - A Malt Coffee as Food, A Russ the 2d 1 been makir ments in the diers Dr. Cyr tered to ten men | fee as their bev sult that their the time to the A like exper by giving tea to the men of similar constitutions and the same number of days, case the doctor certified rage, mn extent of B met SAM § weight ' y for the rease of " de a variety | Department of State and the Chinese | signed for the difference | or | a. | The Docking of Horses. 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