he winnowing machine, which separates
the different kinds of green teas. The winnowing machine is divided
into a series of divisions, which receive the different kinds
according to their size and weight. 1st. Coarsest Souchoo. This tea,
owing to its coarseness, is not marketable. 2nd. Chounchoo. This is
a large, round-grained tea. 3rd. Machoo. This is also a
round-grained tea, but finer than the former. 4th. Hyson. 5th.
Gunpowder Hyson. 6th. Chumat. This kind of tea consists of broken
particles of other kinds of tea.

On being separated, the different kinds are placed in baskets and
picked by the hand, all the old or badly curled and also
light-coloured leaves being removed, and others of different
varieties, which by chance may have become mixed. To make the bad or
light-colored leaves marketable, they undergo an artificial process
of coloring, but this I have prohibited in compliance with the
orders of the Court of Directors, and therefore do not consider this
tea at present fit for the market[13]. On the different teas being
properly picked, they are again placed in the heated inclined pans,
and undergo separately the process of being moved violently up and
down and along the bottom of the pan for three hours in the manner
already described. The color is now fully developed. If the tea
feels damp, it is kept longer than three hours in the pan. The tea
is now ready to be packed.

_Packing_.--As soon as the tea is prepared, boxes lined with sheet
lead ought to be ready to receive it. On being packed it is to be
firmly pressed down, and the lead is then to be soldered. Before the
sheet lead box is placed in the wooden one it is covered with paper,
which is pasted on to prevent any air acting on the tea through any
holes which might exist in the lead. The box is then nailed, removed
to the godown, papered, stamped, and numbered. It is then ready for
sale.

From what I have just stated, it will be perceived that box makers
and sheet lead makers are essential to form a complete tea
establishment. With reference to the box making it is unnecessary
for me to make any remark, further than that care is to be taken in
selecting wood for making boxes, as it ought to be free of all
smell. All coniferous (pine) woods are therefore unfit for the
purpose. In the hills the best woods a