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Show Year's Tea Production. The totnl exports of tea from India during the year ended April 26, 1906, amounted to 214,'198,943 pounds, valued val-ued at $29,294,9.16. The shipments to tho United Kingdom wore 166,601,000 pounds; Canada, 15,019,000 pounds; Russia, 9,991,000 pounds; Australia, 7.74C pounds; Turkey nnd Asln, 3,104 pounds; tho United Stntes, 2,185,000 pounds; Persia, 1,091,000' pounds, nnd to all other countries, 8,084,000 pounds. All theso countries, except tho United States and Persia, increased their purchases pur-chases over 1905. Tho trade with tho United States decreased 9.7 per cent, and that with Persia 65.5 per cent |