Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fig. 173. - Group of Japanese women picking leaves of the tea plant. We were informed that the usual cost for fertilizers for thetea orchards was 15 to 20 yen per tan, or $30 to $ iO per acre perannum, the fertilizer being applied in the autumn, in the earlyspring, and again after the first picking of the leaves. While thetea plants are yet small one winter crop and one summer cropof vegetables, beans or barley are grown between the rows, thesegiving a return of some $40 per acre. Where the plantations are TEACUR
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . Fig. 173. - Group of Japanese women picking leaves of the tea plant. We were informed that the usual cost for fertilizers for thetea orchards was 15 to 20 yen per tan, or $30 to $ iO per acre perannum, the fertilizer being applied in the autumn, in the earlyspring, and again after the first picking of the leaves. While thetea plants are yet small one winter crop and one summer cropof vegetables, beans or barley are grown between the rows, thesegiving a return of some $40 per acre. Where the plantations are TEACURING 289 given good care and ample fertilization the life of a plantationmay be prolonged continuously, it is said, through one hundredor more our walk from Joji to Kowata, along a country road in. leaves in Japan. one of the tea districts, we passed a tea-curing house. This was along rectangular one-story building with twenty furnaces arranged,each under an open window, around the sides. In front of eachheated furnace with its tray of leaves, a Japanese man, wear-ing only a breech cloth, and in a state of profuse perspira- K ? 290 THE TEA INDUSTRY tion, was busy rolling the tea loaves between the palms of hishands. At another place we witnessed the making of the low-gradedust tea, which is prepared from the leaves of bushes which mustbe removed or from those of the prunings. In this case the driedbushes with their leaves were being beaten with flails on a thresh-ing floor. The dust tea thus produced is consumed by the poorerpe(.)ple. XV A 15 0 U T TIENTSIN ON the 0th of June we lelt central China for Tientsin andfurther nortli, sailing by coastwise steamer from Shan;hai,again ploughing through the turbid waters whieli give literalexactness to the name Yellow Se
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