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THP" TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [September 2, 1889. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewi'' & Peat's London Price Current, 1st August 1889.) 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &e. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK— Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellieherry 
Man galore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
QUALITY. 
f Slightly sof tish to good 
\ hard bright 
Do. drossy &dark ditto 
Renewed ... 
Medium to fine Quill 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Renewed 
Medium to good Quill 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Twig 
Clipped, bold, bright, fine 
Middling, stalky lean 
Fair to tine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &fine, washed, bgt 
Middling to good 
Ord. to line pale quill .. 
COFFEE CeylonPlantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COIRROPE.Ceylon&Cochin 
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,Malahar,blk.sifted 
Alleppee & Cochin , 
Tellieherry, 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 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
QUOTATIONS. 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
Woody and hard 
Fair to fine plant 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium 
Triage to ordinary 
Boldto fine bold colory... 
Middling to fine mid. ... 
Low mid. and Low grown 
Smalls 
Good ordinary 
Small to bold 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium to fine 
Small 
Good to fine ordinary ... 
Mid. coarse tofine straight 
Ord. to fine long straight 
Coarse to fine 
Ordinary to superior 
Ordinary to fine 
Roping fair to good 
Middlingwormy 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 j 
good I 
Fair to fine bright bold... 
Middling to good small... 
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 
Fine crystalised 6 a 9inch 17s a 25s 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, 12s a 19s 
{Lean & dry to middling 
under 6 inches ... 10s a 12s 
Low, foxy, inferior and ! 
[pickings 2s 6d a 8s 
a £7 10s 
90s a 105s 
5d a Is 6d 
4d a 9i 
4d a 9d 
Id a 3d 
3d a Is 6d 
4d a 9d 
2d a 5d 
Id a 3d 
Id a ljd 
Is 9d a 2s 6d 
Is 2d a 2s 
Is 3d a 3s 3d 
Is 3d a 2s 3d 
lOda Is 6d 
Is 9d a 3s 
Is 2d a 2s 
8|d a ls7d 
7d a Is 4d 
6|d a Is 3d 
5£d a lid 
14d a6|d 
8ls a 90s 
76s a 80s 
50s a 70s 
98s a 102s 
94s a 97s 
90s a 93s 
88s a 92s 
77s a 84s 
70s a 80s 
95s a 107s 
90s a 94s 
£14 a £22 
£17 a £32 
£7 a £20 10s 
£14 a £34 
£12 a £40 
£12 a £18 
12s a 32s 
15s a 20^ 
45s a 60s 
24s a 35s 
17s a 25s 
15s a 19s 
15s a 62s 
10s a lis 
7s a 9s 
7s 6d a 8s 6d 
5s a 6s 3d 
6s 
4s a 4s 9d 
Is a 2^ 6d 
fd a f d 
ljd a ljd 
20s a 33s 
7|d a 7|d 
Is a Is 6d 
12s a 17s 
7s a 12s 6d 
9s a lis 6d 
6s a 9s 
£4 10s a £5 
£5 a £8 
£30 a £58 
£7 a £30 
8|d a Is 3d 
4Jd a 8d 
id a 4d 
8s a 9s 
7s 6d a 8s 
6s a 7s 6d 
8s 6d a 9s 6d 
ALOES, Soscotrine and 
Hepatic, 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar 
'Good and fine dry ... : £4 a £7 
Common and good ... 40s a £5 
Fair to fine bright ... 31s a 33s 
Ordinary and middling,,, 27s a 3Qs 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS. 
CLOVES, Zanzibar 
and Pemba, per lb 
,, Stems... 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah j 
& Turkey f cwt. ( 
[cwt, 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, $ cwt 
ARABIC, 
per cwt, 
scraped.. 
E.I. & Aden . 
Ghatti .. 
Amrad oh: 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
M1RRH, picked ,, 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings... 
sittings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & Saus 
I |Good and fine bright ... 
f Common dull to fair ... 
Common to good 
Fair 
Fair to fine dark blue ... 
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 . 
Sorts 
Sorts to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown . 
Clean fair to fine . 
Slightly stony and foul .. 
Fair to tine bright 
Fair to tine pale 
Middling to good ;< 
Fair to fine white „ 
Reddish to middling „ 
Middling to good pale 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, | red hard 
age J white softish 
unripe root 
liver 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz 
2nds ,, .. 
3rds ,, ... 
INDIARUBBER Assam, per 
lb. 
Rangoon 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
6|d a 7£d 
6d a 6fd 
ljd a 2d 
9s a 10s 
[55s a 60s 
45s a 53s 
10s a 36s 
£16 a £18 
£12 a £15 
£7 10s a £10 10, 
l£ll a £13 
j£5 a £7 
45s a 85s 
1 24s a 75s 
!55s a 90s 
25s a 52s 6d 
28s a 36s 
22s a 27s 
25s a 30s 
£6 a £8 
75s a 95s 
37s6d a 66s 
27s 6d a 35s 
12s a 20s 
lUsa 15s 
Is 6d a Is 9d 
Is 2d a Is 6d 
3d a Is 2d 
lid a Is 5d 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Brown and brownish 
Good to fine 
Common foul and mixed 
... Fair to good clean 
Madagascar Good to fine pinky & white 
Fair to good black 
. Good to fine pinky 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings ., 
Mid. to fine&?ae7cnot 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 [per lb 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra.. 
Reboiled. 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
3id a 4id 
3d a 3Jd 
2|d a 2jd 
Is 6d a Is lid 
7d a Is 3d 
Is 6d a Is lOd 
Is lOd a 2s 2d 
Is 4d a Is 8d 
85 s al05s 
55s a 80s 
15s a 25s 
7s 6d a 10a 
4s a 6s 
Fair dry 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 [sar 
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 
Pale reddish to fine pale 
Ordinary to fair 
Chips and dark 
Good to fine sound ...I 
Dark ordinary & middling 
Good to fine 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fair to fine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
22s a 25s 
10s a 20s 
none here 
lid a 3d 
Bullet, per cwt. 
Medium ,, 
Seed „ 
1 95s a 102s 6d 
42s a 44s 
30s a 35s nom 
31s 
4s 6d a 5s 
3s a 4s 
2s a 2s 6d 
2s 3d a 3s 
Is 4d a 2s 3d 
2s 7|d a 4s 
2s 6d a 2s 7d 
2s a 2s 5d 
2s lOd a 3s 3d 
2s 4d a2s8d 
Is lOd a 2s Id 
Is 4d a 4s 
8d a Is 3d 
9d a is Id 
3d a 7d 
13s a 16s 6d 
12s 6d a 14s & 
12s 6d a 13s 
8s a 12s 
a 2id 
|2d a 2id 6 
'15s a 17s d 
18s a 19s 
17s a 18 
17s a 18s 61 
