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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [June i, 1888. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewis d- Peat's London Price Current, 10th M«y, 1888.) 
FROM MALAIiAR I 
COAST, COCHIN, | 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. j 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONABARK— Crown 
QUALITY. 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellicherry 
Man galore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
f Slightly s 'ftish 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 & lean 
Fair to fineplumpclipped 
ood to fine 
Brownish 
Good &fine, washed, bgt. 
Middling to good 
Ord. to fine pale quill ... 
COFFEE CeylonPlantatiOD 
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, Midras.. 
NUX 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 
SAPAN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinuevelli 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VAN 1LLOES, Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lsts 
2nds 
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. and Low grjwu 
Smalls 
Good ordinary 
Small to bold 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium to fine 
Small 
Good to fin e ordin ary ... 
Mid. coarse totinestraighi 
Ord. to fine long straight 
Coarse to fine 
Ordinary to superior .. 
Ordinary to fine 
Ropi ng fair to good 
Middling wormy to fine.. 
Fair to fine fresh 
Good to fine bold 
Small and medium 
Fair to fine bold ... 
Small ... 
Dark to fine pile 
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 ,, ( 
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... 
Fair middling medium... 
Common dark and small 
Finger fair to fine bold 
Mixed middling [bright 
Bulbs whole 
Do split 
QUOTATIONS. 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
£6 a £6 10s 
85s a 105s 
5d a Is 6d 
8d a Is 
Id a 9d 
2d a 6d 
3d a Is ea 
6d a 9d 
3d a 7d 
2d a id 
Id a l|d 
2s a 2s 6d 
3d a 2s 
Is 3d a 2s 
Is 6d a 2s 
6d a Is 3d 
Is a 2s 43 
8d a Is 4d 
8.1 a Is 5d 
Hi a Is 4d 
G|d a Is Id 
5|d a 10|d 
2|d a 8d 
90s a 93s 
30s a 8>is 
60s a 75s 
35s a 104s 
75s a 82s 
2s a 76s 
ii8a a 73s 
60b a 70s 
60s 
38s a 104s 
77s a 86* 
69s a 73s 6d 
(50s a 70s 
65 a £15 
613 a £32 
69 . £18 
613 a £35 
613 a £35 
611 a £15 
8s a 24s 
10s a 15» 
S3s a 80 
27s a 45s 
24s a 40s 
15s a 23s 
30s a £6 10s 
10s a 12s 
7s a 93 
5s 3d a 7s 6d 
3s 6d a 4-1 9d 
4s 9d a 5s 
2s 6d a 3 s 3d 
a 2s 6d 
J<1 a Id 
IJd a 2d 
35s a 38s 6d 
7fd a 8Jd 
none here 
12s 6 :1 a 17s 
7s a 12s 
6s a 10s 6d 
5s a 9s 
,£4 15s a £5 
£8 a £9 
|£20 a £44 
!£5 10s a £22 
8d a Is 3d 
3d a Gd 
Jd a 2Jd 
,7s a 8s 
6s a 6s 6d 
5s a 5s 63 
i 5s a 5s 3d 
Fine crystalised 6 a 9inch 17s a 25s 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, 14s a 19s 
( Lean & dryto middling 
\ under 6 inches ...]9sal4s 
Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings. 4s a 8s 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
ALOES, Soccotrine and (Good and fine dry ...j£5a£7 
Hepatic... i Common and good ... 65s a £7 10s 
CHILLIES, Zuuz bar ...! Fair to fine bright ...30s a 32s 6d 
(Ordinary and middling.., 24a n, a'Js 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS. 
CLOVES, Zanzibar l 
and pemba, per lb ' 
,. Stems.. 
! COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah 
& Turkey cwt.i 
[cwt. I 
GUM AM.MONIACUM per 
ANIMT, washed, $ cwt. 
scraped... 
ARABIC, E.I. & Adeu .. 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad cha 
ASSAFC3TIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH", picked ,, 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. „ 
p ; ckings... 
sittings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & S ius 
Good and fin" b r ight 
Common dull to fair 
Fair fresh 
Fair 
Fair to fine dark bin • 
.. 7§d a 7td 
.. 61 a 7|d 
.. l?d 
.. 83 
... 55s a 628 6d 
Good white and green... 45s a 53s 
Blocky to fine clean ... 10s a 35» 
Picked fine pale in sorts, .£12 10sa£l3 10s 
part yellow and mixed|£10 a £11 10s 
Bean & Pea size ditto 
amber and dark bold 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
Medium & bold sorts 
Sorts 
Woody to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown .. 
Clean fair to fine 
Slightly stony and foul .. 
Fair to line bright 
Fair to fine pale 
Middling to good 
Fair to fine white 
Reddish to middling .. 
Middling to good pale .. 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, 1 red hard 
age J white softish 
unripe root 
liver 
£5 a £10 
£7 a £9 
£5 a £7 
90s a 130s 
50s a 120s 
95s a £6 15s 
45s a 90s 
35s a 40s 
25s a 30s 
32s a 34s 
£6 a £7 10s 
70s a 100s 
40s a 55s 
30s a 38s 
12s a 18s 
12s 6i a 14s 6d 
2s a 2a 2 1 
'jls 3d a Is lOd 
!5d a Is 2d 
Is 2d a Is U& 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz. .Nearly water « aite 
2nds 
3rds 
INDIARUBB ER Assam, per 
lb. 
Rangoon 
,3Jd a 4f d 
Fair and good pale . . . |2 jd a 2|d 
Brown and brownish ... 21 a 2Jd 
Gooltofine ... Is lOd a 2s i 1 
Common foul and mixed 6d a Is 8d 
Fair to good clean ...lis 6d a 2s Id 
Madagascar'Goodtofinepiuky&white[2s a 2s 21 
Fair to good black ... Is 6d a Is 10d 
SAF FLOWER ...i Good to fine pinky ...^SsalOOs 
; Middling to fair ...'55s a 80s 
jlnferior and pickings .. Jl5s a 253 
TAMARINDS ...]Mid.to fineWac/suot stony 10s a 16s 
Stony and inferior ...'3s a 6s 
FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. .. 
Natal 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb 
Fair dry to fine bright ... 20s a 22s 
Common & middling soft j 7s a 19s 
Fair to fine ...Inoue here 
Middling to fine ... If a a 2fd 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS. 
CAMPHOR, China, f cwt. 
Japan 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. ... 
Block [p°rlb. 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra... 
Reboiled... 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb... 
Medium 
Small 
MAGE, per lb. 
RHUBARB, Sun dried, per 
lb. 
High dried ... 
SAGO, Pearl, large, $ ewt. 
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 
83's a 95's 
100's a 160's 
Pale reddish to fine pale 
Ordinary to red 
Chips and dark 
Good to tine sound 
Dark ordinary & middling 
Good to fine 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fair to fine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
>70s a 75s 
32s 6d a 33s 6d 
25s a 30s 
21s 9d a 22s 
2s 4d a 3s 3d 
6d a 2s 3d 
Id a Is 4d 
lid a Is 3d 
Id a 81 
2s 7d a 3s 4d 
2s 2d a 2s 7d 
Is 3J a 2s 
2s 7d a 2s 10d 
2s 3d a 2s 6d 
2s a 2s 2d 
S a 4s 
8d a Is 8d 
Bullet, per owt. 
Media co ,, 
Seed „ 
