THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[March t, 1888 
MARKET RATES FOR OL.D AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewis & Peat's London Price Current, 2nd February 1888.) 
.FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow ., 
CINCHONABARK— Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Aleppee 
Tellicherry 
QUALITY. 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
COFFEE CeylonPlantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COIRROPE,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 
MYRABOLANE3 Pale, .. 
Pickings 
OIL, CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMON GRASS 
ORCHELLA WEED 
PEPPER.Malabar blk.sif ted 
Alleppee & Cochin , 
Tellicherry, 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 
( Slight, lv s fisih to goo 
\ hard bright 
Do. dros y uuark ditto., 
Renewed ... 
Medium to fine Quill .. 
Spoke shavings 
Branch 
Renewed 
•lediuin togood Quill .. 
Spoke shavings 
Branch 
Twig 
flipped, bold, bright, fine 
Middling, stalky & lean 
Fair to fine plump clipped 
G-ood to fine 
Brownish 
Grood &fine, washed, bgt 
Middling to good 
Ord. to fine pale quill .. 
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 andniedium 
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 j 
good „ | 
QUOTATIONS. 
£6 a £G 10s 
£4 10s a £6 
Is a 2s 6d 
I s 4d a 2s 
dd a Is 2d 
2d a 6d 
id a 2s 
6d a 2s 
3d a 7d 
2d a 4d 
Id 
2s a 2s 6d 
Sd a 2s 
Is 3d a 2s 
is Gd a 2s 
6d a Is 3d 
Is a 2i 4d 
8d a Is 4d 
8d a Is 51 
7jd a Is 2d 
7d a Is 
d a lOd 
2gd a 8d 
858 a 90s 
G8s a 78s 
60s a 70s 
88s a 91s 
82s a 87s 
75s a 80s 
72s a 80s 
70s a 75s 
55s a 70s 
82s a 88 s 
78s a 82s 
72s a 76s 
70s a 75s 
£5 a £15 
£13 a £36 
£10 a £18 
E13 a £35 
£13 a £35 
£11 a £15 10s 
8s a 22s 
10s a lqa 
75s a 85s 
30s a 48s 6d 
25s a 40s 
16s a 23s 
30s a £6 10s 
12s a 16s 
8s a lis 
6s 6d a 8s 
os a 5s 91 
os a 5s 61 
4s a4s6d 
8d a 3s 
J1 a Id 
Ifd a 2d 
35s a 37s 
'£da7jd % 
none here 
12s 6d a 17s 
Fair to fine bright bold., 
Middling to good small. ..[7s a 12s 
Slight foul to fine bright |6s a 10s 6d 
Ordinary to fine bright ... [5s a 9s 
Fair and fine bold ... £4 15sa£4 17s6d 
Middling coated to good £6 a £7 
Fair to good flavor ... £20 a £44 
Inferior to fine £5 10s a £22 
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 
2ndsjFoxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, 
3rds / L ean & dry to middling 
\ under 6 inches 
4th Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
ALOES, Socoitrino and 
Hepatic, 
CHILLIES. Zanzibar 
7d a Is 
3d a GJd 
£d a 3d 
10s a lis 
9s a 10s 
7s Gd a 8s 
7s 6d a 8s 
17s a 25s 
16s a 20s 
10s a 16s 
4s a 8s 
Good and fine dry ,..|£5a£7 
Common and good . ,'65sa£710s 
Good to fine bright ... ,'Jl a a 32s 
Ordinary and middling.., 20s a 30a 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
CLOVES, Zanzibar 1 
an! Psm l >a, per lb I 
i> Stems.. 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah [blue 
& Turkey Jtfcwt 
[cwt 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMf, washed, $ cwt. 
0)0 land fino bright ... 8sd a 9i I 
Common dull to fair ... 8d a 8Jd 
Fair fresh ... 2d 
Fair ...8a 
Fair to fine dark blue ... 55s a 60s 
scraped... 
ARABIC, E.I. & Aden .. 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad clia 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. „ 
p'ckings.. 
sittings .. 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & saus 
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 tofine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish clean 
Clean fair to fine 
Slightly stony and foul... 
Fair to fine briglit 
Fair to fine pale 
Middling to good 
Fair to tine white 
Reddish to middling ... 
Middling to good pale ... 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, 1 red hard 
age J white softish 
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 
10s a'35s 
|£1210sa£13 10« 
£10 a £11 10a 
£5 a £11 
£7 a £>.) 
£5 a £7 
,90s a 130s 
50s a 112s 6d 1 
95s a £6 15s I 
45s a 82s 
35s a 40s 
25s a 30s 
40s 
£6 a £7 lOd 
70s a 100s 
44s a 55s 
32s a 43s 
15s a 18s 
13s a 14s 
2s Id a 2s 31 i 
Is 7d a Is lid 
7d a Is 2d 
Is 4da Is 9d 
FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. .. 
Natal 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb 
Nearly water white 
Fairand 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 
Inferior and pickings ... 
Mid. to tiaeblacknot stony 
Stony and inferior 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS 
CAMPHOR, China, f 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, Sun dried, per 
lb. 
High dried 
SAGO, Pearl, large, $ cwt. 
medium 
small 
Flour [per lb, 
TAPIOCA, Penang Flake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
Fair dry to fine bright ... 
Common & middling soft 
Fair to fine 
Middling to fine 
3\i a 4id 
2f d a 3d 
2fd a 2gd 
Is lOd a 2s 3Jd 
6d a Is 8d | 
Is 6d a 2s id 
2s a 2s 3Jd 
Is 6d a Is lOd 
£4 10s a £5 10« 
£3 5s a £4 2s 6d 
£1 a £1 10s 
10s a 16s 
3s a 6s 
22s a 25s 
7s a 21s 6d 
... |25s a 30s 
l|d a 2Jd 
Good, pure, & dry white 
„ ,, pink 
Ordinary to fine free ... 
Pressed 
Good 
Fine clean Bauj & Macas- 
Barky to fair [sar 
Common to fine clean 
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 fine pale 
Ordinary to red 
Chips and dark 
Good to fine sound 
Darkordiuary & middling 
Good to fine 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fair to fine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Bullets, per cwt. 
Medium ,, 
Seed it 
1 80s a 85 s 
33s 6d a 34s 6d 
none here 
22s 3d a 22s 6d 
2s 4d a 3d 3d 
6d a 2s 3d 
Id a Is 4d 
lid a Is 3d 
lda8d 
2s 8d a 3s 8d 
23 3d a 2s 7d 
Is 3d a 2s 2d 
2s 6d a 2s 9d 
2s 3d a 2s 5d 
Is 8d a 2s 2d 
Is 4d a 3s 2d 
8d a Is 3d 
d a lOd 
3d a 7d 
10s a 14s 
9s a 13s 
8s Gd a 12s 
9s a 9s 9d 
2jda 2Jd 
2|d a 2*d 
15s a 20s 
26 s a 27s 
21s a 22s 
19s 6d a 20s 6d 
