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THP TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[October i, i 88 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NKW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewi* <b Pelt's London Price Current, 1st August 1889.) 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK-Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellicherry 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
CINNAMON 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon .. 
COFFEE Ceylon Plantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COIR ROPE.Ceylon&Coehin 
FIBRE, Brush 
Stuffing ... 
COIR YARN, Ceylon 
Cochin 
Do 
COLOMBO ROOT, sifted .. 
CROTON SEEDS, sifted ... 
GINGER, Cochin, Cut 
Rough 
GUM ARABIC, Madras.. 
NIIX VOMICA 
MYR ABOLANES Pale, .. 
Pickings 
OIL, CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMON GRASS 
ORCHELLA WEED 
PEPPER,Malabar,blk,sifted 
Alleppee & Cochin „ 
Tellicherry, White ... 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
Chips 
dust ... 
REDWOOD 
SAPAN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
Do. chips ... 
SENNA, Tmnevelly 
Slightly sottish to good 
I hard bright 
Do. drossy &dark ditto... 
Renewed ... 
Medium to fine Quill ... 
■Spoke shaviugs ... 
Branch 
Renewed 
VIedium to good Quill ... 
Spoke shavings 
Branch 
Iwig 
Clipped, bold, bright, fine 
Middling, stalky & lean 
Fair to fine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &line, washed, bgt. 
Middling to good 
3rd. to tine pale quill ... 
Woody and hard 
Fair to fine plant... 
Bold to tine bold 
Medium ... 
Triage to ordinary 
Bold to 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 
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 
66 a £7 10s 
90s a loos 
3d a Is 
id a 91 
2d a9l 
Id a 3d 
ad a Is 
4d a 9d 
2d a 5d 
d a 3d 
Id a ljd 
Is 9d a 2s 6d 
Is 2d a 2s 
Is 3d a 3s 31 
Is 3d a 2s 3d 
lOda Is 6d 
Is 9d a 3s 
Is 2d a 2s 
3 d a Is 8d 
7d a Is 6d 
7d a Is 4d 
6d a 9d 
If d a 6 I'd 
10i)9 a 109s 
80s a 95s 
oo.s a 70s 
103s a 107s 
98 s a 102s 
94s a 97s 61 
93s a 97s Bd 
80s a 92s 6d 
80s a 95s 
100s a 115s 
94s a 98 < 6d 
90s a 03*61 
5s a 92,6i 
£14 a £22 
£17 a £32 
£7 a £20 10s 
£14 a £31 
£12 a £40 
£12 a £18 
12s a 32s 
15s a 20, 
45s a 50s 
24s a 32s 
16s a 23s 
14s 61 a 17s 
15s a 62s 
10s a lis 
7s a 9s 
7s 6d a 8s 6d 
5s a 6s 6d 
6s a 6s 61 
Is a 4s 91 
Is a 2s 61 
i'i a f d 
l£d a lfd 
20s a 33s 
7Jd a 7£d 
... Is a Is 61 
Fair'to fine bright bold..! 12s a 17s 
Middling to good small... 7s a 12s 6d 
Slight foul to fine bright fl 9 a lis 61 
Ordinary to fine bright ... 5s 6i a 9s 
Fair and fine bold ... £4 10s a £5 
Middling coated to good £o a £8 
Fair to good flavor ... £30 a £58 
Inferior to fine £7 a £30 
Good to fine bold green... 6d a Is 
Fair middling medium... 3d a 6u 
Common dark and small 2d a 3|d 
Finger fair to fine bold 10s a lis 
Mixed middling [bright 8 s 6d a 9s 61 
Bulbs 7s a 9s 
Finger |8s 6d a 9s 61 
QUOTATIONS. FROM BQM3V.Y 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
V AN1LLOES, Mauritius &, 
Bourbon, lsts p me erystalised 6 a 9inch!l9s a 25s 
2uds Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, |14sa20s 
3rds 1 J L ean & dry to middling^ 
!\ under 6 inches .,,|10sal4s 
4ths Low, foxy, inferior and I 
[pickings 5s a 10s 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
ALOES, Soieotrine and Good and fine dry ... £4 a £7 
Hepatic, Common and good ... 40s a £5 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar ... Fair to fine bright ... 30s a 33s 
Ordinary and middling.., 27s a 30s 
I |Goo 1a.nl fin- U i^ht 
fjCommon dull to fair 
good 
Common to 
I Fair 
Fair to fine dark blue 
CLOVES, Zanzibar 
and Pemba, per lb 
',, Stem 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah 
& Turkey ^ cwt. , 
[cwt. Good white and green.. 
GUM AMMONIACHM perlBlocky to fine clean 
AN1MI, washed, "#cwt. 'Picked fine pale in sorts, 
I part yellow and mixed 
I Bean & Pea size ditto .. 
(amber and red bold 
Medium & bold sorts 
Sorts 
....Sorts tofine pale 
Amral clia Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown ... 
scraped. 
ARABIC, E.I. & Aden 
per cwt. Ghatti 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings... 
sittings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & Saus 
Clean fair to fiue 
Slightlystony and foul . 
Fair to ine bright 
Fair to fine pale 
Middling to good 
Fair to fine white 
Reddish to middling . 
Middling to good pale , 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, 1 red hard 
age J white sottish 
unripe root , 
liver 
6}d a 6 yd 
5fd a 6^d 
lfl a 21 
9a a 10s 
52s 61 a 57s 6 
'40s a 50s 
15s a 41s 
£16 a £18 
l£12 a £15 
£7 10s a £10 1 
l£ll a £13 
£5 a £7 
45s a 85s 
l24s a 75s 
155a a 90s 
25s a 52s 61 
28s a 36s 
22s a 27s 
25s a 30s 
£6 a £8 
72s 61 a 90s 
37s6d a 66s 
27s 6d a 35s 
12s a 20s 
10sa 15s 
Is 6d a Is 9|d 
Is 2d a Is 6d 
5d a Is 2d 
111 a Is 5d 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz 
2nds 
3rds „ .. 
INDIARUBBER Assam, per 
lb. 
Rangoon 
Madagascar 
SAFFLOWER 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Brown 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 
TAMARINDS 
Inferior and pickings ... 
'Mii.tofineMaeiuot stony 
1 (Stony anl inferior 
3Jd a 4£d 
3|d a 3£d 
2£d a 2fd 
Is 6d a Is lid 
7d a Is 3d 
Is 61 a Is lOd 
Is lOd a 2s 2d 
Is 41 a Is 8d 
70s a90s 
45s a 65s 
15s a 25s 
,7s 61 a 10s 
4s a 8s 
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 [p°r lb. 
GUTTA PERCH A, genuine 
Sumatra. 
Reboiled. 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
RHUBARB, Sun dried, per 
lb. 
Fair dry to fine bright ... 
Common & middling soft 
Fair to fine 
Middling to fine 
High dried 
Good, pure, & dry white 
,, pink 
Ordinary to fine free ... 
Press ed 
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 
8.3's a 95's 
100's a 160's 
Pale reddish to fine pale 
Ordinary to fair 
Chips and dark 
Good to tine sound 
Darkordinary& middling 
Good to fine 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fair to fine 
22s a 25s 
10s a 20s 
none here 
Hda 3d 
■ 100s a 105s 
SAGO, Pearl, large, $) cwt 
medium 
small ... .. . 
Flour [per lb, Good P iQ ky to white 
TAPIOCA, Penang Flake Fair to fi ne 
Singapore ... >• ,, 
Flour ... >> ,, 
Pearl ...I Bullet, p er ow t. 
Medium >f 
I Seed ,, 
42s a 44s 
30s a 35s noil 
31s 
4s 6d a 5s 
3s a 4s 
2s a 2s 61 
2s 3d a 3s 
— Is 4d a 2s 3d 
• 2s 8d a 4s 
2s 6d a 2s 7df 
2s a 2s 5 d 
2s 101 a 3s 
2s 41 a 2s 81 
Is lOd a 2s 1 
Is 4d a 4s 
8d a Is 3d 
9d a Is Id 
3d a 7d 
13s al6s6d 
13s a 15s 
12s 6d a 14s 
8s a 12s 
l|d a 2Jd 
1| d a2}d 
1 4 s a 17s 6| 
a 19 
15s 6da 18s 
17s a 18s 6i 
