Deseret Evening News | 1901-01-12 | Page 21 | Pickers on an American Tea Farm

PICKERS ON AN AMERICAN TEA FARM FARMr r r rJ J 4 r e y f I 1 t 7 I I ti t Y r t k kr r i 1 nt ran y yI 1 I Tt 11 Y IllustratIon shows ehos a party of ten nt at work on a tea farm lea III 1 I the There are arp at least two to products may maO be called exotic that m nr r I on n to any Rny great extent In the United 1 States These are I 1 n I 1 rr Por the latter lalI It la Is doubtful if the proper combination ot of soil j I d hiss been found within the limits ot of lie tho continental United II th ugh It thrivEs well weli In our recent acquisitions such as Porto Rico it 6 I Plo and Hawaii j The cultivation ot of the tea plant has hall been going on experimentally for tor quite halt a century and It is 18 known that It mn can be raised In almost an any ot of our lub states south of oC the latitude ot of Washington In the Carolinas North I nJ lIth Georgia in and Florida It has been successfully grown ns as well as asI I The of agriculture through Its experiments line has It 11 that It ran be made profitable both for tor family use and also on n a rr II I scale Like the raising of at the silkworm It requires an 1 of cheep cheap labor available at certain reasons feaRons and Is particularly 0 n C t the capacities ot of women and children The secretary of at hOl s that tea lea can be produced for 15 cents cent a pound with an average lold Id I tao pounds per acre and that such tea ought to bring not less than 30 J i r nt ti In the market