Our Provision Supply. 



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rules high and stocks are largely supplemented from 

 Barbados. The following gives in detail the prices and 

 quantities of growing provisions brought to the principal 

 market : — 



TABLE OF AVERAGE DAILY RECEIPTS AND DELIVERIES OF PROVISIONS 

 AT STABROEK MARKET DURING NINE MONTHS, ENDING 30th SEPT. 

 1894. 



Prices 

 From To. 





or pkg. 



ber. 



Net weight, in lbs. or 

 average Uaily weight, 



Plantains — 

 Bunches 



$o'24 76 30 489 145670 



2.16 3.241 

 3.00 4.80/ 



Com. Yams, brls. 

 Buck Yams „ 

 Sweet Potatoes — 



Brls. and bags 1.68 3.00 



64.5 p c. of 

 flesh matter, 

 = 35^ skin. 



Chinese Eddoes ,, 

 Tanias „ 



Sweet Cassava — 

 baskets, 



Corn, brls. 



Bitter Cassava- 

 bags, 



60 2,00 

 1.20 336 



64 72 



2 40 400 



127 



168 

 147 

 154 



10 



521 

 14 



1,270 



15,288 



7-717 

 2,156 



155 



24 1,625 lbs. = 28,256 

 roots 

 5,232 used for poultry, 

 &c. 



14 



1,876 used for starch 

 making. 



This is from one-half to three-fourths less than the 

 necessary supply for Georgetown. 



The sources of provision supply vary ; while the East 

 Coast of Demerara during 1892 forwarded about 40 bags 

 of sweet potatoes and from 200 to 600 bunches plantains 

 weekly, during the nine months of 1894 the supplies 

 have become almost nil. The distri6ls of Mahaicony and 

 Abary have however forwarded 600 to 800 bags of sweet 

 potatoes per schooner during 1894 up to date. 



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