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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [November i, 1887. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewis & Peat's London Price Current, 13th October, 1887.) 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK — Crown 
QUALITY. 
f Slightly softsih to good 
QUOTATIONS 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Aleppee 
Tellieherry 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
\ 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 
COFFEE Ceylon Plantation 
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... 
NUX VOMICA 
MYRABOLANES Pale ... 
Pickings 
OIL, CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMON GRASS 
ORCHELLA WEED 
PEPPER.Malabar blk.sifted 
Alleppee & Cochin , 
Tellieherry, White 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
Chips 
dust 
RED WOOD 
SAPAN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelli 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lsts 
2nd* 
3rds 
4th 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
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 andmedium 
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 
Good to fine heavy 
Bright & good flavour ... 
Mid. to fine, not woody... 
Fair to bold heavv 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 whole 
Do split 
Fine crystalised 6 a 9inch 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 „ 
( Lean & dry to middling 
\ under 6 inches 
Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings 
£6 a £6 10s 
£4 1C» a £6 
Is a 2s 6d 
Is 4d a 2s 
6d a Is 2d 
2d a 6d 
8da 2s 
6d a 2s 
3d a 7d 
2d aid 
Id 
2s a 2s 6d 
6d a Is lid 
Is 3d a 2s 4d 
Is 6d a 2s 
Gd a Is 3d 
Is 4d a 3s 
8d a Is 4d 
7|d a Is 7d 
7£d a Is 5d 
7d a Is Id 
6£d a lid 
2£d a 8d 
80s a 85s 
70s a 76s 
62s a 68s 
102s a 104s 
96s 6d a 98s 
95s a 96s 
94 s a 96s 6d 
88s a 92s 
80s a 86s 6d 
102s a 110s 
97s a 101s 
93s a 97s 
90s 
£5 a £15 
£12 a £36 
£9 a £18 
£13 a £35 
£13 a £32 
£11 a £15 
8s a 22s 
8s 6d a 19» 
85s a £5 5s 
35s a 58s 
28s a 50s 
19s a 26s 
30s a £6 
10s a 15s 
5s a 8s 
6s a 8s 6d 
5s a 5s 9d 
5s 6d 
4s 3d a 4s 9d 
_s a 3s 
a Id 
lfd a 2d 
39s a 45s 
8i& a 8Jd 
none here 
9s a 16 s 
7s a 10s 
4s a 10s 6d 
4s a 9s 
£5 
£6 a £7 
£20 a £44 
£5 10s a £22 
7d a Is 
3d a 6|d 
id a 3d 
a 10s 
8s a 8s 6d 
6s Cd a 7s 
6s 3d a 6s 6d 
17s a 27s 
16s a 20s 
10s a 16s 
4s a 8s 
ALOES, Soscotrine and 
Hepatic, 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar 
Good and fine dry ...i£610ga£8 
Common and good ...i75s a £7 10s 
Good to fine bright ... 29s a 31s 
Ordinary and middling,, J22s a 29s 
CLOVES. Zanzibar t 
»nd P«mba, per lb I 
>i Stems... 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah \ blue 
& Turkey J^cwt. 
[cwt. 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, $ cwt. 
scraped... 
ARABIC, E.I. & Adeu .. 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad elia 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt 
MYRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings... 
sittings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & saus 
QUALITY 
QUOTATION 
Good and fine bright ... llfd a llj4 
Common dull to fair .JlOd a Hid 
>. fresh ... 21d a 2fd 
Fa -ir ...9sa9s«d 
Fair to fine dark blue ...'55s a 60s 
Good white and green. ..j45s a 53s 
Blocky to fine clean ...j!5s a 35s 
Picked fine pale in sort ., £12 10s a £14 
part yellow and mixed £10 a £11 10s 
Bean & Pea size ditto ...'£5a£ll 
amber and dark bold ...£7u£9 
Medium & bold sorts ... £5 a £7 
Sorts 90s a 120s 
woody to fine pale ...!45s a 100s 
Good and fine pale ... 95s a £7 6s 
Reddish clean ...J45s a 82s 
Clean fair to fine ... 35s a 40s 
Slightly stony and foul ... 25s a 30s 
Fair to line bright ... 42s a 46s 
Fair to fine pale ... £6 a £7 10s 
Middling to good ... 70s a 100s 
Fair to fine white ... 44s a 55s 
Reddish to middling ... 32s a 43s 
Middling to good pale ... 15s a 18s 
Slightly foul tofine ... 13s a 14s 
que, lied hard ...2s Id a 2s 3d 
age I white sottish ... Is 6d a 2s 
unripe root ... 7Jd a Is 2d 
liver ... Is5dals9d 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts peroz. 
2nds „ ... 
3rds „ ... 
INDIARUBBER Assam, per 
lb. 
Rangoon ... 
Madagascar 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
Nearly water white ... 3Jd a 4d 
Fair and good pale ... 2M a 3d 
Bruwn and brownish ... 2fd a 2|d 
Good to fine ... Is lOd a 2s 2d 
Common foul and mixed 6d a Is 8d 
Fair to good clean ... Is 6d a 2s Id 
Good to fine pinky & white 2s a 2s 3d 
Fair to good black ..' lis 7d a Is lOd 
Good to fine pinky ...)£4 10s a £5 10< 
Middling to fair ... £3 5sa £4 2s 61 
■Inferior and pickings ...t£l a £1 10s 
Mid.to finejtaclnot stony 10s a 14s 
Stony and inferior ...[3s a 6s 
FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. .. 
Natal 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS 
CAMPHOR, China, W cwt. 
Japan ... 
GAMBLER, Cubes, cwt. ... 
Block [per lb. 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra. 
Reboiled. 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
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& Macas- 
Barky to fair [sar 
Common to fine clean 
Good to fine clean 
Inferior and barky 
61's a 80's, garbled 
~'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 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fair to fine 
23s a 26s 
7s a 22s 
25s a 30s 
2fda3*d 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Bullets, per cwt. 
Medium ,, 
Seed 
66s a 68s 
34s a 35s 
none here 
25s a 25s 6d 
2s 4d a 3d 3d 
6d a 2s 3d 
Id a Is 4d 
lid a Is 3d 
Id a 8d 
2s lOd a 3s 10d 
2s 5d a 2s Sd 
Is 4d a 2s 4d 
2s 9d a 3s 
2s 3d a 2s 7d 
Is 9d a 2s 
Is 4d a 3s 2d 
8d a Is 3d 
8Jd a ]0d 
3d a 7d 
9s a 13s 
9s a 13s 
7s 6d a 10s 
8s a 9s 
2Jda 3d 
2^d a2Jd 
15s a 188 6d 
27s a 28s 
20s a 21s 
18s 6d a 19» U 
