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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [December i, 1887. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewis & Peat's London Price Current, 10th November 1887. J 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONABARK— Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Aleppee 
Tellicherry 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
CINNAMON 
f Slightly softeih to good 
\ 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 & leari 
Fair to fine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Mangalore Good &fine, washed.bgt. 
Long Ceylon Middling to good 
Ord. to fine pale quill ... 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon .. 
lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
COFFEE CeylonPlantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COlBROPE.Ceylon&Coehin 
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.sif ted 
Alleppee & Cochin , 
Tellicherry, White 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
('hips 
dust 
RED WOOD 
SAP AN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOl), logs 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelli 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, Mauritius& 
Bourbon, lsts 
2uds 
3rds 
4th 
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.andLow grown 
Smalls 
Good ordinary 
Small to bold 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium to fine 
Small 
Good to fine ordinary ... 
Mid.coarse to fine straigh' 
Ord. to fine long straigh' 
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 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 heavy ) 
good „ ( 
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 
Fing'T fair to fine bold 
Mixed middliug [bright 
Bulbs whole 
Do split 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
ALOES, Sojcotrinc and 
Hepatic. 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar 
£6 a £6 10s 
£4 10s a £6 
Is a 2s 6d 
Is id a 2s 
6d a Is 2d 
2d a 6d 
8d a 2s 
6d a 2s 
3da7d 
2da4d 
Id 
a 2s 6d 
6d a Is lid 
Is 3d a 2s 4d 
Is 6d a 2s 
6d a Is 3d 
Is4da3s 
8d a Is 4d 
Tjd a Is 7d 
7jd a Is 5d 
7d a Is Id 
6£d a lid 
2|d a 7d 
80s a 82s 
72s a 7Ss 
'3s a 66s 
90s a 94s 
8Ss a 92a 
iis a 8Gs 
82s a 85s 
80s a 90s 
70s a 76s 
9l's a 100s 
a 90s 
85s a 87s 
80s a 90s 
65 a £15 
613 a £36 
£10 a £18 
£13 a £35 
£13 a £35 
£11 a £15 10s 
8s a 22s 
9s a 15s 
85s a £5 5s 
35s a 588 
28s a 50s 
20s a 26s 
tOs a £6 
10s a 15s 
ds a 8s 
tis a 8s 
4s 9d a 5s 6d 
5s a 5s 3d 
4s a 4s (id 
Is a 3s 
Jdald 
1 jd a 2d 
39s a 38s . 
8d a S Jd 
none here 
12s Gd a 17s 6d 
7s a 12s 
6s a 10s 6d, 
5s a 9s 
£5 
£6 a £7 
620 a £44 
£5 10s a £22 
7d a Is 
3d a 6|d 
jd a 3d 
is a 9s 0<1 
7s a 8s 
6s Gd a 7s 
69 a Gj 3d 
Fine crystalised 6 a 9iuch 17s a 25s 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, 16s a 20s 
f Lean & dry to middling 
\ under 6 inches ,..ll0»B.16s 
Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickingsj4s a 8m 
Good and fine dry ... £6 10s a £8 
Common and good ...65s a £7 10s 
Good taffcw bright ... : 26s6da283 
Ordinal? andmtddling...^at a 26) 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
CLOVE8. Zanzibar 1 
mrl Pemba, per lb ' 
„ Stems... 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah Iblue 
& Turkey Jfcwt 
[cwt. 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, $ cwt 
scraped... 
ARABIC, E.I. & Aden 
per cwt. Ghatti 
Amrad clia 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH, picked 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings., 
sittings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & saus 
Good and fine bright ... lljd a ll^d 
Common dull to fair ...'lOd a ll£d 
fresh ... 2jd a 2}d 
Fair ... 9s a 9s6d 
Fair to fine dark blue ...55sa60s 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz 
2nds „ 
3rds ,, 
INDIARUBBER Assam, per 
lb. 
Rangoon .. 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt; 
Natal 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS 
CAMPHOR, China, cwt 
Japan .. 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. .. 
Block [per lb, 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra. 
Reboiled. 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb... 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
RHUBARB, Suu dried, per 
lb. 
High dried .. 
SAGO, Pearl, large, $ cwt 
medium .. 
small 
Flour | per lb, 
TAPIOCA, Penang Flake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
QUALITY 
QUOTATION 
Good white and green...' 
Blocky to fine clean 
Picked fine pale in sorts, 
part yellow and mixed 
Bean & Pea size ditto ... 
amber and dark bold 
Medium & bold sorts 
Sorts 
woody to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish clean 
Clean fair to fine 
Slightly stony and foul ... 
Fair to fine bright 
Fair to fine 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 
45s a 53s 
159 a 35s 
£12 10s a £14 i 
£10 a £11 10j 
£5 a £11 
£7 a £9 
£5 a £7 
90s a 120s 
50s a P5s 
95s a £6 15s 1 
45s a 82s 
35s a 40s 
25s a 30s 
42s a 46s 
£6 a £7 10s 
70s a 100s 
44s a 55s 
32s a 433 
15s a 18s 
13s a 14s 
29 Id a 2s 3d ' 
Is 7d a Is lid 
7d a la 2d 
Is 4d a Is 9d 
Nearly water white . . . 3|d a 4d 
Fair and good pale ... 2 jd a 3d 
Brown and brownish ... 2f d a 2|d 
Good to fine ... Is 10d a 2s 3Jd 
Common foul and mixed 0d a la 8d 
Fair to good clean ... Is 6d a 2a Id 
Goodto fine pinky & white; 2s a 2s 3d 
Fair to good black ... Is 6d a Is lOd 
Good to fine pinky ... £4 10s a £5 10a 
Middling to fair ...j£3 5sa £4 2s 6d 
Inferior and pickings ... £1 a £1 10s 
Mid.to fiueWacinot stony 10s a 16s 
Stony and inferior . ,.j3sa6s 
Fair dry to fine bright ..i 28s a 26s 
Common & middling soft a 22s 
Fairtofine ,..25sa30s 
Middling to fine ..:|2d a 3d 
Good, pure, & dry white; \g S3 a ^3 
pink I / 
Ordinary to fine free ... 34s 6d a 35s 6d 
Pressed Inone here 
Good ...|249 3d a 24s 6d 
Fine clean Banj & Macas-|2s 4d a 3d 3d 
Barky to fair [sar 6d a 2s 3d 
Common to fine cleau ... Id a Is id 
lid a Is 3d 
Id a 8d 
[29 lOd a 33 lOd 
12s 4d a 2s 9d 
lis 4d a 2s 3d 
2s 9d a 3s 
2s id a 2s 7d 
Is 9d a 2s 3d 
Is4da3s 2d 
8d a Is 3d 
8|d a lOd 
3d a 7d 
13s 
9s a 13s 
7s Gd a 103 
8s a 9s 
Ma 3d 
2|d a 2|d 
15s a 18s 63 
27s a 2Ss 
21s a 22s 
lSrsGdal&tf 
Good to fine clean 
Inferior and barky 
61'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 
Dark ordinary & m iddli n; 
Good to fiue 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fairtofine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Bullets, per ewt. 
Medium „ 
