"rHE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. Qui* t, 18S7. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewis & Peat's London Price Current, June 9th, I887.J 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADEAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK— Crown Renewed 
Medium to fine Quill 
< Slightly s"f tsih to good 
\ hard bright 
. Do. drossy &dark ditto... 
Bed 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Aleppee 
Tellicherry 
CINNAMON 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Renewed 
Medium to good Quill ... 
Spoke shavings 
Branch 
Twig 
Clipped, bold, bright, fine 
Middling, stalky & lean 
Fair to fine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Gpod &fine, washed, bgt. 
Middling to good... 
Ord. to fine pale quill 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
COFFEE Ceylon Plantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COlRROPE,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.Malabarblk.sifted Fair to bold heavy 
Alleppee & Cochin . 
Tellicherry. White 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
Chips 
dust 
RED WOOD 
SAP AN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelli 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lsts 
finds 
3rds 
4th 
FROM BOMHAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths Woody and hard 
Fair to fine plant... 
Bold to good 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 
Dirk to fine pale 
Fair to fine bold fresh .. 
Small ordinary and fair. . 
Good to fine picked 
Common to middling 
Fair Coast 
Burnt and defective 
Good to fine heavy 
Bright & good flavour 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
Mid. to fine, not woody... 
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... 8d a la 
Fair middling medium... 5d a 7d 
Common dark and small 2-Jd a 4^d 
. Finger fair to fine bold|9s 6d a 10s 6d 
Mixed middling [bright 8s 9d a Sis 6d 
Bulbs whole 7s a 8s 
Do split |6s 9d a 7s 
£6 a £7 5s 
£4 10s a £6 
Is a 2s 6d 
Is 4d a 2s 
6d a Is 2d 
2d a 6d 
8d a 2s 
6da2s 
3d a 7d 
•2d a 4d 
Id 
2s a 3s 
•id a Is lid 
Is 3d a 2s 3d 
Is 6d a 2s 2d 
6d a Is 3d 
Is 4d a 3s (3d 
8d a Is 4d 
8d a Is od 
7^d a Is 2d 
7d a Is 
6§d a 10jd 
2id a 7d 
803 a 95s 
72s a 78s 
60s a 70s 
108s a 112s 
105s a 108s 
99s a 105s 
97s a 101s 
95s a 100s 
3.7s a 95s 
.10s a 130s 
106s a 112s 
97s a 104s 
95s a 100s 
£5 a £15 
£10 a £35 
£8 a £17 
£12 a £30 
£11 a £32 
£10 a £13 
10s a 22s 
10s a 20s 
75s a £5 10s 
33s a 55s 
30s a 55s 
a 28s 
25s a 110s 
7s a lis 
3s a 6s 
6s a 8s 6d 
5s a 6s 3d 
5s 6d a 5s 9d 
4s a 4s 6d 
Is a 3s 
£1 a Id 
! Jd a 2d 
40s a 50s 
7£d a 7|d . 
lOd a 2s 6d 
9s a 14s 6d 
7s a 10s 
3s 9d a 10s 
3s a 9s 
£l5s a £4 10s 
£6 a £7 
£20 a £44 
£5 10s a £22 
Fine crystalised 6 a 9inchjl7s a 29s 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, IBs a 23s 
/Lean & dry to middling 
\ under 6 inches ...|l0sal6s 
Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings Us a 8s 
ALOES, Soi'jotrine and Good and fine dry .„ M 10s a 6& 10a 
Hepatic, Common and good ... 75s a £7 10n 
' HIT, UT'.H, Zanzibar ...iGood to fine bright ...32sa33s6d 
OiMwf *u4 middling.., a 81s 
CLOVES, Zamih»r 1 
and Panama, per lb. • 
»> Stems... 
COCULUS INDIC US 
GALLS, Bussorah 1 blue 
& Turkey J^cwt. 
[cwt. 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, $cwt. 
rtood and fins bright .Jllfd a 11 ^ 1 
Common dull to fair ...!l0d a lljd 
„ fresh ... 2^d a 2Jd 
Fair ...|9s 
Fair to fine dark blue ...'57s a 62s 
scraped... 
ARABIC. E.I. & Aden .. 
percwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad cha 
ASSAFG5TIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
percwt. ,, 
pickings... 
sif tings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & saus 
QUALITY 
QUOTATION 
Good white and green... 
Blocky to fine clean 
Picked fiae pale in sorts, 1 
part yellow and mixed 
Bean & Pea size ditto ... 
amber and dark bold 
Medium & bold sorts 
Sorts 
Fair to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish clean 
Clean fair to tine 
Slightly stony and foul . 
Fairto fine bright 
Fair to iiie pale . 
Middling to good 
Fair to fine white 
Reddish to middling . 
Middling to good pale . 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, ) red hard 
age I white sof tish 
unripe root 
liver 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz 
2nds „ .. 
3rds „ .. 
INDIARUBBER Assam, per 
lb. 
Rangoon ,. 
Madagascar 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
45s a 53s 
15s a 35s 
:£1310/a£1410 
£10 a £12 10s 
£4 10s a £7 
I £7 10s 
|£5a£8 
i90sa 115s 
{38s a 80s 
90s a £6 10s j 
34s a 68s 
35s a 40s 
25s a 30s 
40s a 44s 
£6 a £7 10s 
70s a 100s 
45s a 65s 
32s a 44s 
15s a 20s 
13s a 16s 
2s 6d a 2s 7d I 
2s a 2s 4d 
9d a Is Gd 
Is 8d a 2s 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale ... 
Bruwn and brownish ... 
Good to fine 
Common foul and mixed 
Fair to good clean 
Goodtofine pinky & white 
Fair to good black 
Good to fine pinky ... 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings . . . 
. . . i Mid.to fineJfac&not 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 
GAMBIEE, Cubes, cwt. ... 
Block [p°rlb. 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra. 
Reboiled. 
White Borneo . 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
3£d a 4Jd 
2,da3d 
2}d a 2|d 
2s a 2s 7d 
8d a Is 1'id 
Is 6d a 2s 6d 
2s4da2s6d 
Is lid a 2s 2dj 
£4 10s a £5 1 0i 
£35sa £4 2s dj 
£1 a £1 10s 
10s a 14s 
3s a 6s 
Fair dry to fine bright ... 27s a 30s 
Common & middling soft 8s a 26s 
Fair to fine ... 25a a 30s 
Middling to fine ... 3d a 4Jd 
RHUBARB, Sun dried, per 
lb. 
High dried 
SAGO, Pearl, large, $ cwt. 
medium .,, 
small 
Flour • [per lb, 
TAPIOCA, Peuaug Flake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
Good, pure, & dry white 
,, pink 
Ordinary to tine free ... 
Pressed 
Gjod 
Fine clean Banj & Macas- 
Barky to fair [ 
Common to fine clean 
Good to fine clean 
Inferior and barky 
6l's a 80's, garbled 
83's a 95's 
100's a 160's 
Pale reddish to pale 
Ordinary to red 
Chips 
Good to fine sound 
Larkordinary & middling 
Good to fine 
1 )ark, rough & middling 
Fair tofine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
, Bullets, per cwt. 
, Medium ,, 
'Seed 
1 62s a 65s 
32s a 33s 
29s a 30s 
21s 9d a 22s 
2s 4d a 3s 3d 
6d a 2s 3d 
Id a Is 4d 
lid a Is 3d 
lda8d 
3s Id a 4s 3d 
2s lid a 3s 3d 
Is 9d a 2s lOd 
2s 8d a 3s 3d 
2s 2d a 2s 7d 
Is 6d a Is 8d 
Is 6d a 3s 9d 
8d a Is 4d 
9d a lid 
3d a8d 
lis a 14s 
13s a 12s 
9s 6d a lis 
8s a 9s 
2xda 2id 
2|da2|d 
15s a 18s 6d 
25s a 27s 
18s a 19» 6d 
