Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1911 — TEA NOT GROWN IN CEYLON [ARTICLE]

TEA NOT GROWN IN CEYLON

Land Where Cheaper Grades Were Produced Now Given Up to Cultivation of Rubber Trees. London. —The tea tasters tn Mincing lane are in for a hotter time of it than 'tasual, and those who know anything concerning that mysterious art are fully aware that at the best It la anything but a sinecure. They are being called upon to exercise more than their usual amount of ingenuity in the matching, in both taste and appearance, various Ceylon grown teas of the cheaper grade. The explanation lies in the fact that the “low country” districts in Ceylon, the birthplace of cheap teas, have been sacrificed for the planting of rubber trees. A broker said that the housewife would not, because of this, be called upon to pay more for her pound of Ceylon tea. “The public,” be said, “has become so used to the low-priced article that it would never pay a substantial rise. It simply means that the tea tasters will have to be a little more cunning than usual and match exactly the Ceylon grown tea.”