. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 452 THE AMERICAN FARMER. TEA. MANY and repeated experiments in this country have fully demonstrated the fact that tea can be successfully produced in the southern portion of the United States. These experiments have extended over a period of more than twenty years—those of the past few years resulting so satisfactorily as to warrant the belief that the time is not far distant when American soil, and American industry, will supply the demand of our peo- ple for this
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 452 THE AMERICAN FARMER. TEA. MANY and repeated experiments in this country have fully demonstrated the fact that tea can be successfully produced in the southern portion of the United States. These experiments have extended over a period of more than twenty years—those of the past few years resulting so satisfactorily as to warrant the belief that the time is not far distant when American soil, and American industry, will supply the demand of our peo- ple for this product. It may be some time before tea will be cultivated here on a very large scale, but we are confident that it can be pro- duced by the farmer and gardener, on a small scale, at a much less cost than the imported article involves, while there will be the addi- tional advantage of having a pure, unadulterated article for use. Many of the imported teas are, when placed upon the family table, a decoction of various poisonous materi- als used in their manufacture, special dyes and chemical substances being applied to change their appearance, and give them the desired color. In Liberty Co., Georgia, there is. according to the best authority, a tea-planta- tion owned by Mr. John Jackson, which embraces nearly forty acres, and is occupied by a hundred and sixty thousand tea-plants. Tea has been cultivated in various portions of the South in a small way, for many years. The tea-plant has been found growing wild in the mountainous regions of Assam and Yunnan, and this has led to the opinion that it is a native of this section. In its wild state, it grows in the form of a tree, some- times attaining the height of thirty feet or more, and its SCENES IN A BLACK-TEA DISTRICT IN BOHEA. truuk measuring ten inches in diameter. In this country, however, it grows as a shrul>. It bears at the age of two or three years, and continues to be productive about twelve Please note tha
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