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Show Ceylon Tea. Tea plantations In Ceylon have been In existence only 30 years, yet the annual an-nual exports of black tea amount to nearly 120,000,000 In value. Formerly coffee constituted Ceylon's main industry, in-dustry, but after a disease of the plant In 1690 Its cultivation was discontinued. discontin-ued. Many planters, however, recouped re-couped themselves by tea and rubber. Thanks chiefly to the former article, the island's old prosperity revived. Today To-day Ceylon boasts 1,500 plantations. Plant necessary to tea cultivation Is costly but very labor-saving. The work Itself Is not hard; only the climate cli-mate makes It Irksome. What Is wanted mainly of esiployes Is to watch manclnery and feed It from the stock of tea leaves awaiting treatment treat-ment The workers are not Singhalese, Sing-halese, but natives of southern India A laborer's wages vary from eight to sixteen cents a day. while a foreman's salary averages f2u0 a month. Harper's Har-per's Weekly. |