. Canadian grocer July-December 1896. HFOR DURABILITY and ECONOMY. -f OR GENERAL BLACKING. TONS SOLD YEARLY. MORSE BROS., Proprietors, Canton, LYMAN SONS & CO., 382 ST. PAUL STREET, MONTREAL TEA AND COFFEE CULTIVATIONIN INDIA. FROM official statistics published by theDepartment of Revenue and Agricul-ture of the Indian Government it ap-pears that the area under tea in India at theend of 1894 extended over 422,551 acres ; alittle less than two-thirds of this area (nearly64 per cent.) being in the Valleys of the Bra-hamputra and Surma, which contain as muchas 268,796 acres—154,284 a
. Canadian grocer July-December 1896. HFOR DURABILITY and ECONOMY. -f OR GENERAL BLACKING. TONS SOLD YEARLY. MORSE BROS., Proprietors, Canton, LYMAN SONS & CO., 382 ST. PAUL STREET, MONTREAL TEA AND COFFEE CULTIVATIONIN INDIA. FROM official statistics published by theDepartment of Revenue and Agricul-ture of the Indian Government it ap-pears that the area under tea in India at theend of 1894 extended over 422,551 acres ; alittle less than two-thirds of this area (nearly64 per cent.) being in the Valleys of the Bra-hamputra and Surma, which contain as muchas 268,796 acres—154,284 acres in Assam(the Brahamputra Valley), and 114,512acres in Cachar and Sylhet (the SurmaValley). In extent of cultivation, Bengalcomes next, though the acreage is muchsmaller than in either of the divisions ofAssam, the area under tea being 121,121acres, or about 29 per cent, of the the north-western provinces the areaunder tea in 1894 was 7,692 acres ; in thePunjab, 8,291 acres; in Madras, 6,102acres, and in Travancore and Cochin, 9,079acres. There is, besides, a smaller area of880 acres in Burma. The area under teahas expanded withou
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