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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [August r, 1887 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewis & Peat's London Price Current, July 2l*t, I887.) 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
QUALITY. 
Yellow 
CINCHONABARK— Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
QUOTATIONS 
f Slightly siftsih to 
\ hard bright 
rood 
CINNAMON 
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 fine plump clipped 
Tellicherry Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &fine, washed, bgt. 
n Middling to good 
Ord. to fine pale quill ... 
Aleppee 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylo 
lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths Woody and hard ... 
• •• Fair to fine plant... 
■ •• Bold to good bold 
... Medium 
Triage to ordinary 
COFFEE CeylonPlantation Bold to fine bold colory 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon .. 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
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.. 
NCJX 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 
SAP AN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelli 
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 fiue ordinary ... 
Mid. coarse to tine straigh: 
Ord. to fine long straighl 
Coarse to fine 
Ordinary to superior 
Ordinary to fine 
Roping fair to good 
£6 a £7 5s 
ei 10s a £G 
Is a 2s Gd 
Is id a 2s 
6d a Is 2d 
•2d a 6d 
3d a 2s 
8da2s 
3d a 7d 
2d a 4d 
Id 
2s a 2s 6d 
3d a Is lid 
Is 3d a 2s 
ts Cd a 2s 
6d a Is 3d 
Is 4d a 3s 
a Is 4d 
3d a Is 5d 
r|d a Is 2.1 
7d a Is 
id a lOJd 
id a 7d 
35s a 905 
72s a 77s 
50s a 70s 
lOOs a 110s 
100s a 105s 
J5s a 100s 
37s a 94s 
30s a 90s 
30s a 80s 
100s a 120s 
95s a 105s 
35s a 95s 
80s a 90s 
65 a £15 
610 a £35 
128 a £17 
612 a £!0 
611 a £32 
110 a £13 
Mid. to fine, not woody.. 
Fair to bold heavv | 
Fair to fine bright bold... 
Middling to good small... 
Slight foul to fine brigh; 
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 whole 
Do split 
Middling wormy to fine... 10s a 22s 
Fair to fine fresh... 
Good to fine bold... 
Small and medium 
Fair to fine bold ... 
Small 
Dirk to fine pile 
Fair to fine bold fresh . 
Small ordinary and fair. 
Good to fine picked 
Common to middling . 
Fair Coast 
Burnt and defective 
Good to fine hea vy 
Bright & good flavour . 
6d a 19, 
•5s a £5 
12s a 52s 
30s a 50s 
20s a 27s 
5s a 105s 
10s a 15s 
5s a 8s 
is a 8s 
5s a 5s 9d 
5s 6d 
ts a 4s Sd 
Is a 3s 
|ia Id 
lfd a. 2d 
40s a 50s 
7Jd a 8d " 
lOd a 2s 3d 
9s a 15s 
7s a 10s 
4s a 10s 
3s 6d a 9s , 
£U0s a£4 15s 
6'j a £7 
620 a £41 
65 10s a £22 
8d a Is 
5d a 7d 
2|d a 4|d 
9s 6d a IDs 3d 
8s 9d a 9s 6.1 
7s a 8s 
lis 9d a 7s 
17s a 27s 
16s a 20 s 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, Mauritius & 
Hourbon, lsts p; ne crys talised 0 a 9inch 
2nds| Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 „ 
3nls|f Lean & dry to middling 
\ under Cinches ... 10s a. 16s 
Low, foxy, inferior and j 
[pickings Is a 8s 
FROM BOMBAY I 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
ALOES, Bozotftrine and Joood and fine dry .„ ! £« 10s a £8 10s 
Hepatic... Common and good ,,. 75s a £710* 
CHJLTJFS, Zanzibar ... Good to fine bright ...'30s a 32s 
Qrdlotry «nd middling.., 21a a 29s 
FROM BOMBAY 
AMD aiYZCBAft. 
QUALITY 
Q (TOT ATION. 
CLOVRS. Zanzibar I 
and Piroba, per lb- ( 
>. Stems... 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah 1 blue 
& Turkey J ^ cwt. 
[cwt. 
GUM AMMONIACITM per 
ANIMf, washed, $ cwt. 
scraped... 
ARABIC, E.I. * Aden .. 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrai eha 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
M1TRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBAN1JM, Irop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings... 
siftings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & saus 
1G10I and line bright ... U|l a Is 
Common dull to fair ... 101a lid 
I „ fresh ...'2id a 2£d 
Fair ... 9s a 9s 3d 
Fair to fine dirk blue ... 57s a 60s 
Good white an I green... 45s a 53s 
Bloeky to fine clean ... 15s a 35s 
Picked fiue pale in sorts,'£12 10» a £14 
part yellow and mixed £10 a £11 10s 
Bean & Pea size ditto ... £1 10s a £8 
amber and dark bold ...j£7a£9 
Medium & bold sorts ... £5 a £7 
Sorts 90s a 115s 
Fair to fine pale ... 38s a 90s 
Good and fiue pale ... 90s a £ij 10s 
Re Idish clean ...|34s a 68s 
Clean fair to fine ...|35s a 40s 
Slightly stony and foul... 
Fair to line bright 
Fair to fine pale 
Middling to good 
Fair to tine white 
Reddish to middling 
Middling to good pale 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, I red hard 
_ i I white softish 
unripe root 
liver 
25s a 30s 
42s a 46s 
£6 a £7 10s 
70s a 100s 
4 is a 55s 
[32s a 41s 
15s a ISs 
13s a 14s 
2s 3d a 2s 61 J 
Is lod a 2s 2d 
91 a Is 4d 1 
Is Oda 2s 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per o 
2nds ., . 
3rds „ . 
INDIARUBBER Assam, p 
lb. 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Brown and brownish 
Good to fine 
Common foul aud nrxel 
Rangoon ...[Fair to good clean 
M.vlagaseai |Goodto fine pinky &svhite 
1 Fair to good black 
..'Good to fine pinky 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings ... 
...! Mid. to fineblacknot 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, If cwt 
Japm 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. .. 
Block [p>rlb 
GUTTA PERCHA, geuuin. 
Sumatra.. 
Reboiled.. 
White Borneo 
Fair dry to fine bright 
Common & middling soft 
Fair to fine 
Middling to fine 
3£d a 
2]d a 3d 
2. id a 2|d 
2s a 2s 6i 
81 a Is lOd I 
Is 6 1 a 2s 61 I 
2s Id a 2s 61 1 
Is In.V 1 a 2s 24 
£1 lOsa£5 10a 
£3 5 s a £1 2j 6d 
£1 a £1 10s 
10s a 14s 
3s a Gs 
25s a 23s 
8s a 21s 6d 
25s a 30s 
3d a 4id 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb.. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
RHUBARB, Sun driel, pa 
lb. 
High dried .. 
SAGO, Pearl, large, ? eivt 
medium .. 
small 
Flour [per lb 
TAPIOCA, Penang Flake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
Good, pure, & dry white l 633 a 65s 
» pink| J 
Ordinary to fine free ...|3ts G:l a 35s 
Pressed none here 
Good ... 22s Gl a 22s 
me clean Bauj Sc. Macas- 2s 4d a 3s 3d 
!arky to fair [sar|6i a 2s 3d 
Oommon to fine clean 
Good to fine clean 
Inferior and barky 
H's a 80's, garbled 
}3's a 95's 
100's a 160's 
Pale reddish to pale 
Ordinary to red 
Chips 
Good to fine sound 
Darkordinary & middling 
Good to fine 
Dirk, rough & middling 
Fair to fine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Ballets, per cwt. 
Medians ,, 
S»«d ., 
Id a Is 4d 
lid a Is 3d 
id a 8d 
3s 4d a 4s 3d 
2s 1 Id a 3s 3<1 
Is 91 a 2s lOd 
3 s a 3s 6d 
2s Gd a 2s lOd 
Is 9d a 2s 
Is Gd a 3s 91 
3d a Is Id 
91 a lid 
3d a 8d 
is ild a 13s 
10 s a 12s 
9s a 10s 6d I 
Ss a 9s 
2' f da 2|d 
2td a 2 Jd 
15s a 18s (id 
„|25*a273 
,Jl8s a 19s 
,.ll7s a 183 6d 
