S°4 
THF TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[January i, 1889. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewi* & Peat's London Price Current, 20th December 1888. J 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK— Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellicherry 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon 
COFFEE CeylonPlantation 
j Slightly snftish 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 fine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &tine, washed, bgt 
Middling to good 
Ord. to fine pale quill ., 
Native 
Liberian 
Kast Indian 
Native 
COIR ROPE, Ceylon&Cochii 
FIBRE, Brush 
Stuffing ... 
COIR YARN, Ceylon 
Cochin 
Do 
COLOMBO ROOT, sifted .., 
CROTON SEEDS, sifted ... 
GINGER, Cochin, Cut 
Rough 
GUM ARABIC, Madras . 
NDX 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, Tiunevelly 
QUALITY. 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANIl.l.OKs, Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
Woody and hard 
Fair to fine plant 
Bold to fine 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 to fine 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 tine 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 
Pair to fine heavy 
Bright & good flavour .. 
Mid. to fine, not woody.. 
Fair to bold heavy j 
good „ f 
QUOTATIONS. 
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 tine bold green.. 
Fair middling medium... 
Common dark and small 
Finger fair to fine bold 
Mixed middling [bright 
Hulbs 
Finger 
Fine crystalised 8 a 9iucb 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, 
Lean & dry to middling 
i under 0 inches 
4tlis Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings 
£6 a £G 10s 
85s a 105s 
5d a Is 6d 
fid a Is 
4d a9d 
2d a 6d 
3d a Is 6d 
4da 9d 
3d a 7d 
2da4d 
Id a l|d 
lOd a 2s 6d 
8d a Is 6d 
Is 3d a 2s 6d 
Is a Is 6d 
Gda lid 
2s a 3s 
8d a Is 4d 
8d a Is 3d 
7Jd a Is 2d 
6±d a Is 
5d a lid 
lfd a 6Jd 
82s a 90s 
70s a 80s 
50s a 70s 
100s a 106s 
90s a 98s 
82s a 90s 
85s a 89s 6d 
75s a 85s 
65s a 80s 
98s a 115s 
87s a 96s 
S2s a 86s 
75s a 85s 
£14 a £19 
£18 a £32 
£8 a £18 
£14 a £36 
£13 a £36 
£13 a £16 
15s a 40s 
8s 6d a 18s 
40s a 60s 
23s a 34s 
18s a 25s 
14s a 17s 
20s a £5 
lis a 12s 6d 
7s a 10s 
7s a 8s 6d 
5s a 6s 6d 
6s 6d 
3s 6da 4s31 
Is a 2-i 6d 
|d a-f d 
l|d a ifd 
25s a 30s 
7Jda8d - 
none here 
2s a 16s 
s a 12s 6d 
9s alls6d 
7s 6d a 10s 6d 
£4 15s a £5 
£6 a £8 
£20 a £44 
£5 10s a £22 
Sid a Is 3d 
lid a 8d 
id a 4d 
8s a 8s 6d 
lis fid a 7s 6d 
5s a'6s fid 
9s a 9s 6d 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
ALOES, Socsotrine nnl 
Hepatic. 
CHILLIES, Zuuzi'j&r 
12s a 25s 
a 15s 
5s a 10s 
fid a 4s 
(tood and fine dry ... £5 a 67 
Common and good ... 00s a £7 10s 
Fair to fine bright ... 3Gs a 37s 
Ordinary and middling,,. 30s a 35s 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
CLOVES, Zanzibar I 
and Pemba, per lb I 
>. Stems... 
COCULUSINDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah i 
& Turkey f cwt. ( 
[ewt. 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, ¥ cwt. 
QUALITY. 
quotations! 
Good and fin" bright 
Common dull to fair 
Common to good 
Fair 
I9|d a lOd 
...;8£d a 9$d 
... If d a 2f& 
":8s a 9s 
scraped.., 
ARABIC, E.I. & Aden ., 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad olia 
ASSAFCETtDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH, picked „ 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings... 
sittings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & Saus 
Fair to fine dark blue ...|55 s a 62s 6d 
Good white and green...!* 03 a °3s 
Blocky to fineclean ... a 36s 
Picked fine pale in sorts, l £Ha £15 2« ed 
part yellow and mixedl^ 12 a £ 13 101 1 
Bean & Pea size ditto .. U ' 
amber and red bold 
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 fine bright 
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 ) 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 
FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
£6 a £10 10d 
£9 10s a £13 
£5 a £7 
85s a £6 10s 
35s a £6 
85s a £6 7s fid 
40s a 80s 
35s a 40s 
25s a 30s 
28j a 30s 
£fi a £8 5s 
80s a 100s 
35s a 50s 
25s a 32s fid 
12s a 20s 
10 s a 15s 
Is 6d a Is lid 
Is Id a Is 7Jd 
4£d a Is 
9d a Is 6d 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Brown and brownish ... 
Good to fine 
Common foul and mixed 
Fair to good clean 
Goodto fine pinky & white 
Fair to good black 
Good to fine pinky 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings ... 
Mid. to fineMaci-notstony 
Stony and inferior 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. 
Natal 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS 
CAMPHOR, China, f ewt 
Japan 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. 
Block [per lb 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuiu 
Sumatra, 
Reboiled, 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
R'lUBARB, Sun dried, pe 
lb. 
High dried .. 
SAGO, Pearl, large, $ cwt, 
medium .,, 
small 
Flour [per lb, 
TAPIOCA, Penaug Flake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
Fair dry to fine bright ... 
Common & middling soft 
Fair to fine 
3id a 4|d 
Zfd a 2Jd 
2|d a 2£d 
Is 7d a Is 10d 
fid a Is 6d 
Is 64 a Is lOd 
lOd a 2s Id 
Is id a Is 7£d 
85sa!05s 
55s a 80s 
15s a 25s 
6d a 10s • 
4s a 6s 
Middling to fine 
18s 6d a 22 6 
10s a 17s 6d 
none here 
...Ilida3d 
Good, pure, & dry white 
>> ,, pink 
Ordinary to fine free ... 
Pressed (none here ) 
Good 
Fine clean Banj& Maea- 
Barky to fair [sar 
Common to fine clean ... 
Good to fine clean 
Inferior and barky 
57's a 80's, garbled 
«3's a 95's ' .. 
100's a 160's 
Pale reddish to fine pal 
Ordinary to fair 
Chips :ind dark 
(rood to tine sound 
Dark ordinary & middling 
Good to fine 
Dark, rough & middling 
Fair to fine 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Bullet, per cwt. 
Medium ,, 
Itieed „ 
J- 95s a 100s 
37s a 42s 
34s a 36s 
2t)s 9d a 27s 
2s 4d a 3s 3d 
6d a 2s 3d 
3d a Is 4d 
lid a Is 3d 
Id a8d 
2s 6d a 4s 
2s 3Jd a 2s 5d 
Is 6.1 a 2s 3d 
2s 6d a 2s 9d 
2s 3d a 2s 5d 
Is lOd a 2s 2d 
Is 4d a 4s 
8d a Is 3d 
8£d a lid 
3d a 7d 
lis fid a 14s 
10s a 13s 6d 
lis a 13s 
lis a 12s 
2'da 2Jd 
td a 2jfd 
12s a 20s 
23s a 24s 
20s a 21s fid 
20s a 2U Sd 
