Tea, Coffee, and Tobacco Courts.

The exhibits are placed in glass cases according to the districts.

N.B.—Till 1823 China was believed to be the exclusive home of the Tea Plant. The first 12 chests of Tea received from Assam in 1838; in 1884, 60,000,000 pounds were exported.

The Cultivation of Cocoa has been recently introduced, and there are thriving plantations on the Madras Presidency.

Tobacco.—The Government have experimental farms. See Exhibits.

Agricultural Implements, &c— In the Annexe there are models of agricultural implements. If you can find the plough, examine it, and compare it with an English steam plough. A steam plough was introduced with great éclat into Bombay Presidency. It was led in procession page 22 into the field wreathed in roses; but it was impossible to make use of it so it was put away into the village temple, and there, after a time its great steel share was bedaubed red and worshipped as a god.