In the 'Balling Room', where the opium paste is shaped into small spheres: 'Each ball-maker is furnished with a small table, a stool, and a brass cup to shape the ball in a certain quantity of opium and water and an allowance of poppy petals, in which the opium balls are rolled. Every man is required to make a certain number of balls, all weighing alike. An expert workman will turn out upwards of a hundred balls a day'.