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tHE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[April I, 1895. 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS, 
(From S. Figgis <£ Co.'s Fortnightly Price Current, London, 14th March 1895). 
EAST INDIA. 
Bombay, Ceylon, Madras 
Coast and Zanzibar. 
ALOES, Socotrine ... 
Zanzibar & Hepatic 
BARK, CINCHONA Crown 
Red . 
Bees' Was, E. I. White. 
Yellow . 
Mauritius Bt Madagascar. 
CARDAMOMS— 
AUepee 
Man galore ... 
Malabar 
Ceylon. Malabar sort 
Alleppee and 
Mysore sort 
Long wild Ceylo 
CASTOR OIL, 1st* 
2nd: 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar ... 
CINNAMON, 
QUALITY. 
lsts 
2uds 
3rds 
4ths 
Cblps 
CLOVES, Zanzibar 
and Femba. 
STEMS 
COCULUS INDICUS 
COFFEE ... 
COLOMBO root!!! 
CROTON SEEDS, sifted... 
CUTCH „ ■•• 
DRAGONS BLOOD. Zai.i. 
GALLS, Bussorabat Turkey 
GINGER, Cochin, Cut ... 
Rougb... 
Bengal, Rough 
Good and fine dry liver.., 
Common and good 
Renewed " .. 
C'hipi and shavings 
Renewed 
Chips and shavings 
Good to fine 
Fair to fine 
Fair to fine clipped 
Bold, bright, fairto flue.. 
Good to fine plump, cliped 
Fairto fine bold bleached 
,, medium ,, 
,, small 
Small to bold brown 
Pair to fine bold 
,, ,, medium 
,, ,, small 
Common to good 
White 
Fair and good pale 
Fair to tine bright 
Ord'y. and middling 
Ord'y. to fine pale quill 
QUOTATION 
EAST INDI4 Continued 
Eist Coast Africa, Mala 
bar and Madras Coast, 
Bengal. 
Fairto fine plant 
Fair to fine bright 
Common dull and mixed 
GUM 
AMMONIACUM 
ANIMI, washed 
scraped.. 
ARABIC E.I. & Aden. 
Ghatti 
Amrad cha. 
Madras 
ASSAFCETIDA 
KINO ... 
MYRRH, picked 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
pickings... 
sittings .. 
INDIABUBBEB ... ... 
East African Porta, Zanzi- 
bar and Mozambique CoaBt 
Assam, 
Rangoon ... ... 
Madagascar, Tamatave, j 
Majunga and Nossibe j 
Bladder Pipe 
Purse 
Common to good 
Fair sifted 
Mid. Plantation Ceylon 
Low Middling ,, „ 
Good to fine bright sound 
Ordinary^ middling 
Fair to hue fresh 
Fair to fine dry 
Ordinary to good drop ... 
Fair to fine dark blue ... 
Good white and green . . 
Good to fine bold .. 
Small and medium ... 
Fair to fine bold 
Small and medium 
Fair to good 
Block y to fine clean ••< 
Picked hue pale in sorts 
Part yellow & mixed do 
Bean & Pea size ditto . 
Amber and red bold .. 
Medium & bold sorts 
Good to fine pale frosted 
sifted ... 
Sorts, dull red to fair ... 
Good to fine pale selected 
Sorts middling to good 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown ... 
Dark to fine pale 
Fairto fine pinky block... 
and drop 
Ordinary stony to midline 
Fair to tine bright 
Fair to tine pale 
Middling to good 
Fair to hne white 
Reddish to middling ... 
Middling to good pale ... 
Slightly foul to fine 
Red hard clean ball 
White sottish ditto 
Unripe root 
Liver and Lamu Ball ... 
Sausage, ordinary to ti... 
" without sticks 
Good to fine 
Common foul & middling 
Fair to good clean 
Good totiuepinky&white 
Fair to good black ... 
J good to fine pale 
\ dark to frir 
Clean thin to fine bold... 
£3 108 a £5 
30s a 80s 
lid a 4d 
Id a 4d 
Id a 4d 
II a 4-1 
£7 OS a £8 10s 
£6 0s a £7 2* tjd 
£6 159 a £7 10s 
Is a 2s 8d 
Is lOd a 2s 8d 
2s a 2* 6d 
2s 3d a 38 3d 
Is 6d a 28 
Is a Is 6d 
Is a Is 6d 
2s 61 a 3s 6d 
Is 6d a 2) 2d 
Is 21 a Is 5d 
Is a 2s8d 
2|d a 2, 1 
' a 2fd 
24s u 27s 
20s a 23* 
G}'1 a Is 5d 
61a la 
5Jda 101 
od a 9d 
2Jd a 7 J 
2 T d a 31 
2|J a 1 
id 
10s a 15a 
lOls a 103s 6i 
97c a 100a 
10s a 2 Js 
7s a Us 
20s a 27s 6d 
0s a 32s 
2 J a 50s 
1 7 s a 5 > 
4"s a 42s 6d 
6is 61 a 70s 
45s a 60s 
Jos a 4 .'s 6d 
28s a 35s 
2 8 1 a 25s 
20s a 60s 
£10 Qs a £12 0s 
£9 08 a £9 15 1 
£4 10s a £8 10* 
£5 10s a £7 los 
£4 Us a£7 0s 
Karnchen Leaf ... 
INDIGO Bengal 
Kurpah , 
Madras (Dry Leaf) 
rVORY'-Elephant.' Teeth 
60 lb. & upwards 
over 30 & under 60 lb 
60 a 100 lb. 
Scrivclloes 
Billiard Ball Pieces 2| i 3j"u 
Bagatelle Points 
Cut Points for Balls .. 
Mixed Points It Tips.. 
Cut Hollows 
Sei Horse Teeth — .. 
|ilj lb. 
MYRAUOLANKS, Bombay 
UUALITY. 
G jo-1 and floe pale 
Vliddliug to fine violet... 
Ordinary to middling ... 
Fairto good reddish violi 
Ordinary and middling 
Middling to good 
Low to ordnary 
Soft sound 
QUOTATIONS. 
close & wile 
Hard 
Soft „ 
Hard ., 
Sound soft 
Sli. def.to fine sound soft 
Shaky lo fine solid sd. aft 
Defective, part hard 
Tbin to thick lo sd. sft 
is a »• 7d 
ts 8 1 a 5s 74 
3» 1 I a «a 61 
2s 8da 3s lOd 
Is 44 a 2s 6d 
ls8d a as 
7da is|61 
SiS a £68 
£18 10s a £40 
£37 10s a £46 
£>J a £ 3> los 
£16 a£/4 
£71 lusa J.-P3 10a 
£51 a £63 
£631"* a £73 10s 
£33 a tttl 
£2Ja £11 
Madras, Upper Godavery 
Coast 
MACE, 
UUTMEGS, 
NUX VOMICA Madras 
)IL, CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMON GRASS 
JRCHELLA I S? y L^„ 
WEED j Za 
PEPPER 
Malabar, Black sifted .. 
Alleppee & Tellicberry 
Tellicherry, White .. 
PLUMBAGO, Lump 
40s a 45s 
30s a 37s dd 
30s a 45s 
20s a 2is 
35s a 45s 
25s a 32s 
2js a 33s 
60s a 100s 
2(8 a 50s 
£25 a £ JO 
£5 a £7 
65s a 75s 
30s a 559 
17s a 25s 
8s a 14s 
9s a 13< 
2s Id a 2s 5d 
Is 8d a 2* 2d 
lOd a Is 4d 
la Sd a 2s 2}d 
U 3d a 2s 
2a 2d a 2s 5d 
Is 7d a 2s 
9d a Is 5d 
Is 7d a 2s 
2s Id a 2s 5d 
Is 6d a Is 9d 
ls8d a 2s 6d 
9d a Is 4d 
is 6d a 2i 6d 
fark mixed to fiae pa'o...g d a Is 
Pickings 
Bombay 
Straight erkel part close l9 a a , 
Bhimlies I, good tt fine 
pale j, g j 
,. II, fair picking, 3, 61l( 19 ;J1 
Jubbleporel, good « fine 
P>'e 6s a 7s 
„ II, fair rejectious jB 6d a 4s 3 J 
Vingorlas. good and fine | B a 5 # 6d 
Good to line picked — 5s6da6<6d 
Common to middling ... j 8 3 j B 4, 3j 
Fair ... ... ... 4, „ 4., «d 
Burnt and defective „ 3, gj 
Dark to good bold pale .. i s s 4, 
Wd com. darkto nne btaUuj * 61 
65's a 81's ... ... Xs Ud a 2s lOd 
Mozambique 
RED WOOD 
3AFFLOWER, 
Chips 
Dust 
Bengal 
SANDAL WOOD, Logs 
„ ,, Chips.. 
3EEDLAC 
SENNA, Tinnevelly 
Bombay 
SHELLS, M.-o'-P. 
large 
medium part stout 
cliickenpart stout 
oyster & broken pes 
Mussel 
90's a 125'* 
Small to line bold fresh 
Fair to fine heavy 
Brigbt St good flavour... 
Mid. to fine, not woody 
Picked clean flat leaf ... 
wiry 
Fair to bold heavy I 
fair „ ... f 
,, ,. .. nom 
Fair to fine bright bold 
Middling to gou small 
Sli'tly foul to flnebrigh 
Ordinary to fine bright.. 
Fair aud fine bold 
Goodtotiuepiuky nominal 
Ordinary to fair 
Inferior and pickings ... 
Fair to tine flavour ... 
Inferior to fine 
Ordinary to fine bright 
Medium to bold green... 
Small and medium green 
Common dark and small 
Ordinary to good 
'Egyptian— bold clean . 
medium tbin and stout 
chi Ken, part oysiers 
Bombay — poor to tinetuic 
clean part good color 
lud 
Llngah Ceylon 
TAMARINDS 
TORTOISE-SHELL 
medium and bold sorts 
small and medium sort! 
Thin and goad stout sorts 
Mid. totineblacknotstony 
Stony and inferior 
. Sorte.good mottle, heavy 
Zanzibar and Bombay Pickings thin to heavy 
rURMERIC, Bengal ... Leanish to fine plump 
finger ... 
Madras ... Fin. fairto fine bold brgt 
1, ...Mixed middling 
Bulbs ... 
Finger ... 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, 
Bourbon , 
Mauritius, 
Seychelles, 
Madagascar, 
lsts ... Fine, cryst'ed 5 to 9 iu. 
2nds... Foxy & reddish 5 to 8 in. 
3rda... Leau & dry to mid. un- 
der 6 in. 
4tha.,. Low. foxy, inferior and 
I pickings os a 7e 6i 
s 3 1 a 1 
5s a its 
od a is 61 
|d a ]d 
Id 
15, a 22s 
12s a 18s 
22s a 32 
■i\ 1 a 31 1 
Iji a 2 21 1 
Us a 17s 
9s a 11* 
7s a 10s 
28 91 a 6s 
£3 108 a £1 
95s a IOjs 
70s a 80s 
30s a 50s 
£35 a £55 
£9 a £30 
30s a 90s 
51 a 81 
2d a 4d 
Id a 2d 
Id a 2d 
50s a 57s 6d 
7os a 8 s 61 
70s a 80s 
o5s a 63. 61 
82 6d a 90s 
80s a 90 
70s a 82s 6d 
33s a 50s 
20s a 30s 
5s a 15i 
8s a l&s 
Is a 68 6d 
24s 6d a 28s 
7s a 21s 61 
9s a 108 6d 
10s a Us 
9s a 10s 
7a 6.1 a 8s 61 
9s a Us 
I6sa 24s 
i2s a 18s 
|7s a 10s 
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