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Return 60 Dchra-A Tea flantstiea- The Robbers
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Return 60 Dchra-A Tea Pisstsuss- The Robbers
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DEHRA saturday FsA IS 1853
We returned from Lanaovr on "Wednesday afternoon.
Lieut. urgtdus 20 remain another day. bat the Hmm.
la,as (Which | had gone up the mountain AZ sun
rise 60 see y were half covered with clouds the
was melting III sides sud the paths almost im
passabls from mud aud sush. There sail 90 De
specimen of the ydk. or Tarar GOV, a. Mu'sooree,
licb 81 ND have seen but for three niles of sloppy
rad As il Wa vas elAd toescape from the drelry
though sublime nights of LandoNr sul return TO Deb
r. win iis gloves and sunny gardens The air stu
more behsIed than The preceding day, but de-
sceuded the phantom valley flushed into FORM anil c,or
and in an hour ard o half fnm the time my pony tnm
bed down in a dri refined him up under PALM
tree
DeLrs as believe have already stated is the love
lest spot have yet seen in India Julg a. from the
numbers OF handsome bungalows IN ani around the town.
the Anglo Indians II similar opinion IA much Of
the valley is entirely given up 60 jungle paris Of IT,
which are marshy and undrsined, considered
healthy but a little attention would make IL one Of the
healibcst il is one Of the most fertile districts in
Nouharn India A small irrgatng canal has been ear
red through the central part. bur II does not pay
the expenses feeble aud defective is the agriculture
of the Dhoon There reckOned, within its limits,
hundred villages bat the population must beyery scanty
since the revenue obtained BY Government ony amounts
| 20 - 600 rupees When state that the tax imposed
| mou the -emiHdGrs who hold she land as Government
tenants amounts 10 - per nt Of the estimated value
of the products il will be seen how tr1ng the actual
Weld must be- The RIOTS peasants 20 whom the and
is sul-iet by the Zemndar only able - exc ont
bare substance that here where thousands OF
o. the best land ug waste che greater part Of the
inhabitants in state IL extreme poverty. This sys
tem by which the East India Company Is the virtual
proI retor Ofa the territory undeits exclusive CONTROL
unst necessarily be a check 90 the prosperity Of lats
and the civilization Of its people but when say TO the
English residents an generally met by the remark;
(hc same often used by Americans ap0ogetc Of Slave
! ~: We did not makeitwe found IL So
The introduction of the Tea Culture into India u an
interesting experimental indeed lt can still be con
! sidered an experiment. The Government, within the
past ten years. has devoted much attention 10 t. All
The principal varieties Of the eapant have been i'm
ported experimental gardens laid out AZ different points
| In the Hmaayss from Assam TO the north western
frontier of the PuBaub and Chinese wOrkmen procured
TO teach the preparation of the leaves NJ Fortune,
whose travels in ChDs his mission b eject these OBJ
jecs have excited considerable notice, is nov on bis
Wa 10 that country 10 procure fresh supplies 0 plants
and Workmen The Tea Plant vas first introduced into
Assam district north Of Bengal and lying the Bra-
hmspOOtfa River A company vas formed about fifteen
yesrs sRo the cultivation and minufacture of Tea;
but through ignorance and neIperence II was for some
time losing concern. At present, however, u has 80
far succeeded 10 produce 10000 pounds Of Tea aud
20 pay 10 per cent annually to the Company. The
detrimental gardens in the northern and western parts OF
the Himalayas have been established recently and
the Dafiyes beginning 70 take up the cultivation
Of the plant
one Of the gardens is at KaolOgir, about three miles
from Dehra and visited Il in company with Mr. Keene.
Mr. Fortune considers that lryel auyial soil Ike that
Of the DhooD is not well adapted for the hliy
country about Amorah and 10 the Punlaub, AMI II he
BE- correct did not the plant IN H. greatest peec
ton though should think i difficult for any plantation
10 present fOuIsbDg appearance than parts OF
that At KaOlOger IL consists Of 800 acres 81 level
grOund-a rich DARK loan, mixed with csy-and Goa
tains plants in every stage Of growth tom zoe seeding
10 the thick bushy shrub SIX fess nsh ~ now tne
ming season and the Dst crop 81 leaves viii not
- .,Iared hef,re Nav The plant bears some re-
- 20 he Lex Il holly, but the leafs smaller Of
an more minurely serrated The blossom
- .,as,IS vbi,,-in some varieties a yeoEisb-br0wn
~ Sa6les that Of the Wild American blackberry
"a snts we're about three feet apart in rows fur
-" from each other With small channels between for
the purposes ofirrgaton. Mr.. Fortune however, COZ
sdeTs thar irrigation Il rather injurious thaa otherwise
Mr. Thomson, the Superintendent II the plantation,
assured that the average yield Of the plants after
they Lad reached proper growth for pluekng might
be 81 dOwnH cWt per acre though under favorable
circumstances il might be increased 10 300 NJ Az pres
ent the D.hra and Amorah teas sell for purely hocy
prices being bought up with avidy at the annual SAFES,
for from two % three rupees pound ID jameson
Who has charge II all the Tea sntaton 10 the north
1est Estimates that when the culture shall have became
s,I Tea can he profitaby produced a. SIX annas as
certs) the pound The Zenigdsrs, Who are with DIM
v b,onobt 20 accept Of the slightest Innovation. arc
vsry r,luespt 20 undertake the culture although tao
Goyerment not only releases them from all tsr upon
,d lanted with Tea shrubs but bndstse 70 bay from
,hn AZ remunerAfiye price all the Tea they can pro-
Snes II |. now proposed 20 cOmmGHa every Zemisdsr
ho leases property beyond certain number OF scfss.
70 cultivate Eve acres Of the Tea plant those sno
know the natives best say that 10 u the ony sV.ts
which the Tea Culture can be rapidly eh'eua'a, ~
natives being perfectly willing TO OBEY any -.
though they may be immoTesble to al Pe'sa''''A'