. China. Tea. WOMEN PICKING TEA ON HILLS AT KEEMUN ing from the Market Centre, say Hankow, CKangKai or Foocnov? according to v?KicK district it ma^y) belong, send silver mone^), partly their ov)n and partly borrowed from nati\Je banks, up to the district factories. These, as soon as the first leaf is picked, send agents into all the surrounding villages with money to open the leaf-buying depots. It is an unfortunate fact that two-thirds of the process of manufacture are done by the countrymen on the hillsides and outlying villages, before the tea comes into the hands of the factories at all. '

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. China. Tea. WOMEN PICKING TEA ON HILLS AT KEEMUN ing from the Market Centre, say Hankow, CKangKai or Foocnov? according to v?KicK district it ma^y) belong, send silver mone^), partly their ov)n and partly borrowed from nati\Je banks, up to the district factories. These, as soon as the first leaf is picked, send agents into all the surrounding villages with money to open the leaf-buying depots. It is an unfortunate fact that two-thirds of the process of manufacture are done by the countrymen on the hillsides and outlying villages, before the tea comes into the hands of the factories at all. '. TEA GROWING ON HILLS OF KEEMUN. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Irwin-Harrisons & Grosfield, inc. [from old catalog]; Harris, S. W. [from old catalog]. New York, Philadelphia [etc. ] Irwin-Harrisons & Grosfield, inc

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