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THE. TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[December i, 1888. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND N SW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewi» & Peat's London Price. Current, 8th November 1888. J 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
QUALITY. 
BEES' WAX, White ...I 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK— Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellicherry 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4tbs 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
f Slightly snflish to good 
\ hard bright 
Do. drossy &dark ditto... 
Renewed ... 
'Medium to fine Quill 
1 Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Renewed 
Medium togood Quill 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Twig 
Clipped, bold, bright, fine 
Middling, stalky & leai: 
Fair to fine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &fine, washed, bgt. 
Middling to good... 
Ord. to fine pale ipiill 
QUOTATIONS. 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS! 
COFFEE CeylonPlantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COIH ROPE.Ceylon&Cocliin 
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 , 
Tellicherry, White 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
Chips 
dust 
RED WOOD 
SAP AN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelly 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lsts 
2nd* 
3rds 
4th 
FROM ROM HAY 
AMD ZANZIBAR. 
Woody and hard 
Fair to fine plant 
Hold to fine bold 
Medium 
Triage to ordinary 
Bold to fine bold colory .. 
Middling to fine mid. .. 
Low mid. and Low growi 
Smalls 
Good ordinary 
Small to bold 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium to fine 
Small 
Good to fineordinary .. 
Mid. coarse tofine straight 
Ord. to fine long straight 
Coarse to fi ne 
Ordinary to superior 
Ordinary to fine 
Roping fair togood 
Middling wormy to fine.. 
Fair to fine fresh 
Good to fine bold 
Small and medium 
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 ,, ( 
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 line bold 
Mixed middling [bright 
Bulbs whole 
Do split 
Fine crystalised 6 a 9inch 12s a 25s 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, 8s a 15s 
t Lean & dry to middling 
I under 6 inches ... osalOi 
Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings Od a is 
£6 a £G 10s 
8ns a 105s 
5d a Is (id 
8d a Is 
4d a 9d 
2d a (id 
•3d a Is 63 
id a 9d 
3d a 7d 
2d a 4d 
Id a Ud 
Is 10d a 2s 6d 
8d a Is lid 
Is 3d a 2S 
Is a Is 6d 
6d a lid 
Is a 2s II 
8d a Is 4d 
8d a Is -Id 
6|d a Is 3d 
Gd a Is 
5d a lOd 
1-fd a 63d 
82s a 90s 
70s a 80s 
50s a 70s 
100s a 106s 
90s a 98s 
82s a 90s 
82s a 86s 6d 
70s a 75s 
60s a 74s 6d 
a 115s ' 
87s a 96s 
80s a 86s 
TOs a 75s 6d 
£14 a £19 
£15 a £30 
£8 a £18 
£14 a £36 
£13 a £36 
£13 a. £16 
15s a 40s 
8s 6d a 13s 
47s a 75s 
2ts a 38s 
20s a 35s 
15s a 19s 
20s a £5 
Us a 12s 6d 
7s a 10s 
7s a 8s 6d 
5s a 6s 6d 
6s 
3s 6d a 4s 3d 
Is a 2s 6d 
Tla^d 
Ud a 
28s a 32s 6d 
7id a 8Jd 
none here 
12s 6d a 17s 
7s a 12s 
Ts a Us '6d 
5s a 9s 
£1 15s a £5 
66 a £9 
620 a £44 
£5 10s a £22 
8Jd a Is 3d 
i^d a 8d 
?d a 4d 
8s a 8s Gd 
6s 6d a 7s Gd 
Gs a 7s 
9s a 9s 6d 
ALOI-.S, BoCOOtrfne an 1 Good and fine dry ... £5 a £7 
Rl i « tic. 'Common and good ... 60s a £7 103 
CHILLIES, Zuuzibar ...'Fair to fine bright ... 33s a 36s 
CLOVES, Zanzibar I 
and Pemba, per lb I 
Stems... 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah 1 
& Turkey f cwt. { 
[ewt. 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, 1? cwt. 
scraped... 
ARABIC, E.I. & Aden .. 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad elm 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
P'ckings... 
sittings ... 
INDIA RUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & Saus 
Good and fine bdght 
Common dull to fair 
Fair fresh 
Fair 
. 9|d a lOd 
8d a 9£d 
... 2d a 2Jd 
.. 8s a 9s 
Fair to fiuedark blue ... 55s a 62s Gd 
45s a 53s 
10s a 35s 
Good white and green., 
Blocky to fine clean 
Picked fine pale in sorts, l£l<* a £14 1M 
part yellow and mixed^U a £12 I'M 
Bean & Pea size ditto 
amber and red bold 
Medium & bold sorts 
Sorts 
Woody to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown 
Clean fair to fine 
£6 a £10 
"':£9 10s a £18 
"' £5 a £7 
'"'£5 a £7 7s 64 
'"j35sa£6 15s 
"'|90s a £6 10s 
"' 40s a 80s 
'" 35s a 40s 
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, 1 red hard 
age ) white sottish 
unripe root 
liver 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz 
2nds 
3rds „ ... 
INDIARUBBER Assam, pel 
lb. 
Rangoon ... 
Madagascar 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
25s a 30s 
30s a 33s 
£6 a £8 5s 
TOs a 100s 
35s a 50s 
25s a 32s 6d] 
12s a 20s 
9s a 15s 
Is 6d a lsll 
Is Id a Is 7£d 
4jd a Is 
9d a Is 6d 
FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Brown aud brownish 
Good to fine 
Common foul and m xed 
Fair to good clean 
Good to fine pinky & whit 
Fair to good black ...j 
Good to fiue pinky 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings ... 
Mid. to fineblacknot stony 
Stony aud inferior 
3|d a 4£d I 
2Jd a 2Jd 1 
2d a 2id 
Is 7d a Is 10d 
6d a Is 6d I 
Is 3d a Is lOd 
Is 9d a 2s j. 
Is 2d a Is 6d 
85 s a 105s I 
55s a 80s 1 
15s a 25s 
7s 6da 10s 
14s a 6j 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. ... Fair dry to tine bright ... ! 18s 6d a 22 6d 
,, ... Common & middling soft|7.s a 17s 6d ' 
Natal ... Fair to fine • ...'none here (■ 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb Middling to fiue ...jHda3d 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS, 
CAMPHOR, China, f ewt 
Japan 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. .. 
Block [p»r lb. 
GUTTA PERCHA, geuuine 
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 F'lake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
Ordinary and middling,,, 30s a 32s 
Good, pure, & dry white | ^ a ^ 
Ordinary to fine free ... 10s a 42s 
Pressed (none here.) 35s a 37s 
Good ... 28s 6d a 29s 
Fiue clean Banj& Maea- 2s 4d a 3s 3d 
Barky to fair [sar 6d a 2s 3d 
Common to fine clean ... 3d a Is Id 
Good to fine clean ... Ud a Is 3d 
Inferior and barky ... Id a 8d 
57's a 80*s, garbled ... 2s 9d a 4s 4d 
83's a 95's ... 2s 5d a 2s 8M 
100'salGO's ... Is 7ri a 2s 4Jdl 
Pale reddish to fine pale 2s 8d a 2s 10d, 
Ordinary to fair ... 2s4da2s7d 
Chips and dark ... Is lOd a 2s 3d [ 
Good to fi ne sound 
Darkordinary& middling 
Good to fine 
Dark, rough & middling 3d a 7d 
Fair tofine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Bullet, por ewt. 
Modiuoo ,, 
Seed 
Is 4d a 4s 3d 
8d a Is 3d 
8|d a Ud 
3d a 7d 
lis a 13s 
8s 6d a iSi 
10s a 12s 6d 
9s 6d a Us 
2}d a 3d 
2id a 2 jd 
12s a 20s 
23s a 24s 
21s 6d a 23s 
21s 6d a 22s 
