Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — Tea, Three Cents a Pound. [ARTICLE]

Tea, Three Cents a Pound.

There is a description of tea sold in Japan at the average price the country over of 6(4d. per pound. This is “brancha,” which consists of a mixture of the former year’s leaves, withered stalks, etc., and is mainly consumed by the poorest classes, thowgh the price varies considerably in different prefectures, being as high as 9d. in Kagoshima and %d. per pound in Kyoto. In 1903, according to a consular report by Student Interpreter Phipps oi Tokio, no less than 55,588,030 pounds of tea of all was produced, valued at £1,120,800. During the same year 48,239,484 pounds valued at £l,422,535, were exported.—From the London Chronicle.