July i, 1894.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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Messrs. Howards & Sons . . . . . . 43.78G 
Agents for the American and Italian factories . . 30,881 
Agents for the Paris factory . . . . . . 20,836 
Agents for the Maunheitn and Amsterdam factories 19,060 
Various druggists . . . . . . 78,743 
Total quantity of bark sol 1 . . . . ?4R,443 
Bought in or withdrawn .. .. 158,079 
Total quantity'of bark offered. . _ .. 704,523 
It should bo remembered that the proportion of bar it 
secured by a buyer is no indication of the percentage of 
the total amount of quinine in the eales represented by 
his purchase. 
The following prices were paid for sound bark :— 
Ceylon Cinchona.— Original :— Red varieties : Ordinary 
dusty to good bright quilly stem and branch chips ;}d to 
l? t d ; fair to good stem shavings to 251 ; flue chips 
2Jd per lb. Grey varieties : Ordinary dull to fair stem 
and branch chips Id to lgl ; fair t~i gaod shavings 1ft to 
2d : goal roft at ?§4 per lb. Yellow varieties : Dull stem 
chip3 1 Jd ; fair bright branch chips 4jd ; fine rich shav- 
ings 6{jd per lb. Renewed :— Red varieties : Ordinary to 
good bright stem and branch chips Id to 2dj ; dull to 
good bright shavings 1 Jd to 2ji ; dust lj}d per lb. Grey 
varieties : Dull and du^ty to good bright quilly clr'ps l|d 
to 3|d per lb. 
Java Cinchona —Of 131 bales yellow bark (Ledger) S3 
sold at 4jd for good root, 2Jd for sittings, and If per lb 
for quilly chip*. 
West African Cinchona.— A parcel of 288 packages of 
West African cinchona, recently imported via Lisbon, sold 
at 3d 'per lb. for partly dull, har J , coarse open Succirubra 
quill 2jl to 2Jd per lb. "for fair bright ditto, and lgl to 2d 
per lb. for chips. 
South American Cinchona.— The auction comprised 
115 bales of cultivated Bolivian Calisaya quill of which 58 
sold at 4 7 [d per lb for fair bright quill, and from ?3dto4d 
per lb for damaged bark. 
Ctjprba Baek.— The old familiar parcels of euprea bark 
of 1882-3 imports were duly offered once more on Tuesday, 
and once ajrain the bark was bought in at nominal rates. 
Seventv-two ba'es however (partly damaged) sold at from 
; ;d to ijd per lb. 
The exports of cinchona bark from the port of Guaya- 
quil (Ecuador) amounted to 31,800 lb. (value £954) in 1892 
and to 67,500 lb. fvalue £?,025) in 1893. 
Cocaine. — There has been no further change in the 
price since the last reduction. A big business is said to 
hava been done in crude cocaine lately, and the importers 
are now inclined to ask somewhat higher rates. In hydro- 
chlorate, also, there have been fair transactions at the recent 
reduction. 
Ctjbehs. — The exports of cubebs from Java during the nine 
months from July 1st to March 3'st have been :— 
1689-90 1890-1 1891-2 1892-3 1893-4 
Piculs 1,0?5 2,192 1,181 884 742 
Qoinine.— It is s'ated that a few days ago a small busi- 
ness was done ia second-hand German bulk at lid per 
oz. ; and it would certainly be possible, we think, to buy 
at that figure at present. The manufactures have lately 
received several inquiries pointing to the existence of a 
report that they are about to drop their official quotations. 
We arc informed by one of the leading makers that he 
and his colleagues are as firm as ever, and have no in- 
tention of dropping their prices. These are now as fol- 
lows: — Howard's in tins Is 2d to Is 3d ; in bottlps Is 3d 
to is 4d ; Whiffen's in tins Is Id ; in bottles Is 3d; Pelle 
tier's, in bottle^ ls5dto Is 5£d ; Fabbrica Lombarda, in 
bott!e9 Is 3d ; in tins Is Id ; Brunswick, Mannheim, Auer- 
bach, Zimmer and Jobst, in. tins, all is Id per oz. • 
Loudon, June 7. 
Cocaine.— There has been a further arrival of 1 1 pack- 
ages crude cocaine from Callao by the "Orinoco." 
Quinine. — After many weeks of quietness a little life 
has at last been infused in this article, though, unfor- 
tunately for the holders, at a decline in price. Aboat 
25,000 oz. second-hand German bulk have Ibeen sold this 
week on the spot iu different lots, the first changing hands 
at lOJd per oz., but lOJd per oz being accepted afterwards. 
It would probably be possible today to buy at lOJd per oz 
from the second-hand, but the manufactures quotations 
remain unchanged. The average richness of the Java bark 
which will be offered in Amsterdam on June 14th, is very 
high— viz , 4-86 per cent of sulphate of quinine. The ex- 
perts of cinchona bark from Java in May amounted to 
about 980.0(0 half kilos, which is considerably in excess 
of the shipments in May 1893 We understand that the 
exports from the i-hnd for the first five months of the 
present year exceed those of 1893 by about 30,000 half 
kilos, and are, in fact, the largest on record for the period. 
THE DUTCH CINUHON A- AUCTIONS. 
Oar Amsterila'ti correspaudont writes on June 
5 : — " All tin analyses for the oinohona-bark Bales 
on June 11 have been oorapldte.l. Th.3 manufactur- 
ing bark oontiins about 33'2 tons sulphate of quinino 
or 4-86 per oent. on the average. About 1 ton 
contains 1-2 per cent., 30 tons contain 2-3 per cent., 
65$ tons oontain 3-4 per cent., 99 tons contain 
4-5 per cent,, 12(3 tons contain 5-6 per cent., 41 
tons contain 6-7 per oent., 16$ tona contain 7-8 
per cent., '2 tons contain 8-9 per cent., and 1 ton 
oontains 9-10 per oent. sulphate of quinine."— 
Chemist and Druggist. 
FORAGE FOR CEYLON AND THE EAST. 
Compressed forage is a line which is perfectly new 
to Ceylon and the Bast, ani has attrioted »8 much 
attention at Colombo as all the other exhibits to- 
gether. The line has "caught on" firmly, as the 
orders forwarded testify. But these first orders are 
only trial ones, as prejudice is difficult to overcome 
in the horie world as well as amongst mankind. 
There is no customs duty upon this compressed, 
forage; therefore, if the Australian patentees include 
their royalty in a moderate charge for compressing, 
if none but the best material is used in the manu- 
facture, and if shipping and other charges are reduced 
so as to allow the cotnmodi*y to obtain a firm foot- 
hold in foreign market', there is an absolute cer- 
tainty of an excellent trade beicg done, not only 
in CeyloD, but through the Bast. — Australian Agri- 
culturist, June 1. 
CEYLON EXPOETS AND DISTRIBUTION, 1894. 
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