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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. IJuly r, 1889. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewis A Peat's London Price Current, 6th Jane 1889.) 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BAEK-Crowu 
QUALITY. 
Ked 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellicherry 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon 
1st 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
f Slightly softish to good 
\ hard bright 
Do. drossy &dark ditto 
Renewed ... 
Medium to fine Quill 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Renewed 
Medium togood Quill 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Twig 
Clipped, bold, bright, fine 
Middling, stalky & lean 
Fair to fine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &fine, washed, bgt 
Middling to good 
Ord. to fine pale quill .. 
QUOTATIONS.! FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
COFFEE Ceylon Plantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East j«iian 
Native 
COIRROPE.Ceylon&Cochii 
FIBRE, Brush 
Stuffing .. 
COIR YARN, Ceylon 
Cochin 
Do 
COLOMBO ROOT, sifted .. 
CROTON SEEDS, sifted .. 
GINGER, Cochin, Cut 
Rough 
GUM ARABIC, Madras.. 
NUX VOMICA 
MYRABOLANES Pale, .. 
Pickings 
OIL, CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMON GRASS 
ORCHELLA WEED 
PEPPER,Malabar,blk.sifted 
Alleppee & Cochin , 
Tellicherry, White 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
Chips 
dust 
RED WOOD 
SAPAN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
. Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelly 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lsts 
2nd* 
3rds 
4th b 
Woody and hard 
Fair to fine plant 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium 
Triage to ordinary 
Bold to fine bold colory .. 
Middling to fine mid. .. 
Low mid.andLow growr 
Smalls 
Good ordinary 
Small to bold 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium to fine 
Small 
Good to fine ordinary .. 
Mid. coarse tofine straigh 
Ord. tofine long straight 
Coarse to fine 
Ordinary to superior 
Ordinary to fine ... 
Roping fair to good 
Middling wormy to fine. 
Fair to fine fresh,.. 
Good to fine bold... 
Small and medium 
Fair to fine bold ... 
Small 
Dark to fine pale 
Fair to fine bold fresh , 
Small ordinary and fair, 
Good to fine picked 
Common to middling . 
Fair Coast 
Burnt and defective 
Fair to fine heavy 
Bright & good flavour , 
Mid. to fine, not woody... 
Fair to bold heavy i 
„ good „ ( 
Fair to fine bright bold... 
Middling to good Email... 
Slight foul to fine bright 
Ordinary to fine bright ... 
Fair and fine bold 
Middling coated to good 
Fair to good flavor 
Inferior to fine ... 
Good to fine bold green. ,. 
Fair middling medium... 
Common dark and small 
Finger fair to fine bold 
Mixed middling [bright 
Bulbs 
Finger 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
A Lots, Soccotrine and 
Hepatic, 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar 
£-6 a £7 10s 
85s a 105s 
5d a is 6d 
4d a 9 1 
4d a 9d 
Id a 3d 
3d a Is 6d 
4d a 9d 
2d a 5d 
Id a 3d 
Id a l£d 
2i a 2s 9d 
Is 2d a 2s 
Is 8d a 2s 6d 
Is 3d a 2s 3d 
Is a Is 6d 
2s a 3s 
Is 3d a 2s 
8Jd a Is 7d 
7d a Is 4d 
6|d a Is 3d 
5id a lid 
lfd a 6Jd 
His a 90s 
76s a 80s 
50s a 70s 
103s a 107s 
97s a 102s 
92s a 96s 
91 s a 94s 
85b a 93s 
'S a 91s 
103s a 115s 
94s a 100s 
-89 a 94s 
85s a 90s 
£14 a £22 
£16 a £32 
£7 a £20 10s 
£14 a £34 
£12 a £40 
£12 a £18 
12s a 40s 
12s a 17s 
50s a 65s 
25s a 42s 
20s a 28s 
17s a 20s 
15s a 68s 
10s a lis 
7s a 9s 
7s a 7s 6d 
4s 6d a 5s 6d 
5s 6d 
39 6d a 4s 3d 
is a 2s 6d 
fd a fd 
lfd a lid 
20s a 33s 
7Jd a 7f d 
Is a Is 6d 
12s a 17s 
7s a 12s 6d 
9s alls6d 
6s a 9s 
£4 15s a £5 
£5 a £8 
£20 a £44 
£5 10s a £22 
8?d a Is 3d 
4Jd a 8d 
%(\ a 4d 
s a 9 s 
7s 6d a 8s 
69 a 79 6d 
8s 6d a 9s 6d 
Fine crystalised 6 a 9inch 17s a 25s 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, 12s a 17s 
' Lean & dryto middling 
under 6 inches ..Jl0sal2s 
Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings 2s 6d a 8s 
Good and fine dry ... £4 10s a £8 
Common and good ... 40s a £5 10s 
Fair to fine bright .,, 31a a 33s 
Ordinary and middling.,, 28s a 30s 
CLOVES, Zanzibar 
and Pemba, per lb 
„ Stems 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah 
& Turkey f cwt. 
[cwt. 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, $ cwt. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
scraped... 
ARABIC, E.I. & Aden .. 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad eha 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MIRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, irop 
perewt. 
pickings... 
sittings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & Saus 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz. 
2nds 
3rds „ ... 
INDIARUBBER Assam, pei 
lb. 
Rangoon ... 
Madagascar 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
>odand finn bd^ht ... 7fd a 8jd 
Common dull to fair ... 7d a 7rfd 
Common to good ... lid a 2d 
Fair ... 9b a 10s 
Fair to fine dark blue .. . |558 a 60s 
Good white and green... 
Blocky to fine clean 
Picked fine pale in sorts, 
part yellow and mixed 
Bean & Pea size ditto ... 
amber and red bold 
Medium & bold sorts 
rts 
Sorts to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown ... 
Clean fair to fine 
Slightlystony and foul ... 
Fair to fine bright 
Fair to line pale 
Middling to good 
Fair to fine white 
Reddish to middling ... 
Middling to good pale ... 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, 1 red hard 
_ ! I white softish ,". 
unripe root 
liver 
45s a 53s 
10s a 36s 
£16 a £18 
'£12 a £15 
i£7 10s a £1010s 
£11 a £13 
£5 a £7 
45s a 85s 
20s a 75s 
55s a 95s 
;25s a 52s 6d 
35s a 40s 
25s a 30s 
28s a 30s 
£6 a £8 
80s a 95s 
37s6d a 66s 
27s 6d a 35s 
12s a 20s 
lusa 15s 
Is 6d a Is lOd 
Is 2d a Is 7d 
4§-d a Is 
9d a Is 6d 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Bruwn and brownish ... 
Good to fine ... 
Common foul and mixed 
Fair to good clean 
Good to fine pinky & white 
Fair to good black 
Good to fine pinky 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings ... 
Mid. to &neblac?cnot stony 
Stony and inferior 
. FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. 
Natal 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb. 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS. 
CAMPHOR, China, f cwt. 
Japan 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. ... 
Block [ppr lb. 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra. . . 
Reboiled... 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
3Jd a 4£d 
'■id a 3 l-16d 
2*d a 2Jd 
Is 6d a Is lid 
7d a Is 3d 
Is 61 a Is lOd 
Is lOd a 2s 2d 
Is 4d a Is 8d 
85sal05s 
55s a 80s 
15s a 25s 
7s 6d a 10s 
4s a 6s 
Fairdry to fine bright ... 
Common & middling soft 
Fair to fine 
Middling to fine 
RHUBARB, Sun dried, per 
lb. 
High dried 
SAGO, Pearl, large, $ cwt. 
medium 
small 
Flour [per lb, 
TAPIOCA, Penang Flake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
Good, pure, & dry white 
■> >> pink 
Ordinary to fine free ... 
Pressed 
Good 
Fine clean Banj&Maca- 
Barky to fair [ s ar 
Common to fine clean ... 
Good to fine clean 
Inferior and barky ... 
57's a 80's, garbled 
83's a 95's 
100's a 160's 
229 a 25s 
109 a 20s 
none here 
Hd a 3d 
1 100s 6d a 105 
42s a 44s 
30s a 35s nomlj 
Pale reddish to fine pale 
Ordinary to fair 
Chips and dark 
Good to fine sound 
Darkordinary& middling 
Good to fine 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fair tofine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Bullet, per owt. 
Medium ,, 
Seed ,, 
3s 6d a 4s 3d 
2s a 3s 3d 
8d a Is 9d 
Is 9d a 2s 4d 
7d a Is 8d 
|2s SJd a 4s 
2s 7d a 2s 8d 
,2s a 2s 5d 
2s lOd a 3s 3d 
2s 4d a 2s 8d 
Is lOd a 2s Id 
Is 4d a 4« 
8d a Is 3d 
9da Is Id 
3d a 7rt 
12s a 13s 6d 
129 a 12s 6d 
12s 6d a 14s 
12s a 13s 
2£da 2|d 
2d a 2}d 
153 a 17s 6d 
19s 6d a 20s 
16a a 18 6d .] 
18a a 19s 
