Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Valuable Tea Sweepings. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Tea Sweepings.

One of the principle sources of the supply of caffeine in England is the sweepings of tea from the floors of the various docks, wharves and warehouses in London. These Sweepings aggregate about 675,000 pbunds of tea annually, or, with the dirt, nails, hoop iron and wood which gets mixed with the tea, to about •100 tons. The loss to the tea importers annually is about $125,000. The sweepings have nat.urally a fair proportion'of good to fine grade teas mixed with them, and consequently contain a larger amount of the active principles of tea, called by chemists “caffeine,"than the low quality teas. The sweepings cost the chemists only about half a cent per pound.