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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
tNov.  i,  1892. 
MARKET  RATES  FOR  OLD  AND  NEW  PRODUCTS. 
(From  S.  Figgis  <£  Co.’s  Fortnightlg  Price  Current,  London,  October  6lh,  1892.) 
EAST  INDIA. 
Bombay,  Ceylon,  Madras 
Coast  and  Zanzibar. 
ALOES,  Socotrine  ... 
Zanzibar  & Hepatic 
BARK, CINCHONA  Crown 
Bed. 
BEES’ WAX,  E.I.,  White 
Yellow  . 
Mauritius  & Madagascar... 
CARDAMOMS— 
Allepee 
Mangalore  ... 
Malabar 
Ceylon.  Malabar  sort 
Alleppee  and 
Mysore  sort 
Long  wild  Ceylon... 
CABTOR  OIL,  lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
CHILLIES,  Zanzibar 
CINNAMON, 
lsts 
2ndg 
3rds 
4ths 
Chins 
CLOVES,  Zanzibar 
and  Pemba. 
„ STEMS 
COCULUS  INDICUS 
COFFEE  
COLOMBO  ROOT 
CROTON  SEEDS,  sifted... 
CUTCH  „ - 
DRAGONS  BLOOD.  Zun. 
GALLS, Bussorah&  Turkey 
GINGER,  CochiD,  Cut  ... 
. Rough... 
Bengal,  Rough 
GUM  AMMONIACUM  .. 
ANIMI,  washed  .. 
scraped.. 
ARABIC  E.I.  & Adeu  . 
Ghatti 
Amrad  clia. 
Mad  ras 
ASSAFCETIDA 
KINO 
MTRRH,  picked 
Aden  sorts 
OLIBANUM,  drop... 
pickings... 
siftings  ... 
INDIARUBBER  ...  ... 
East  African  Ports,  Zanzi- 
bar  and  MozambiqueCoast 
Assam, 
Rangoon  ... 
Madagascar,  Tamatave,  j 
Majunga  and  Nossibe  ) 
SINIGLASS  or  lXonp,ue,. 
FISH  MAWS  f K 
Bladder  Pipe... 
Purse 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
Good  and  tine  dry  liver...  £4  a £5 
Common  and  good  ...  40s  a £5  10s 
Renewed  ... 
Medium  to  fine  Quill 
Spoke  shavings  ... 
Branch 
Renewed  
Medium  to  good  Quill 
Spoke  shavings  ... 
Branch  
Twig  
Good  to  fine 
Fair  to  fine 
Fair  to  fine  clipped 
Bold,  bright,  fairto  fine 
Good  to  fine  plump.cbped 
Fairto  fi  ,ebold  bleached 
, ,,  medium  ,, 
,,  small 
Small  to  bold  brown 
Fair  to  fine  bold 
,,  medium 
_j  ,,  small 
Common  to  good 
White  
Fair  and  good  pale 
Brown  and  brownish 
Fair  to  tine  bright 
Ord’y.  and  middling 
Ord’y.  to  fine  pale  quill 
3d  a 8d 
4d  a 7d 
2d  a 4d 
1 1 a 21 
2d  a 7d 
4d  a 6d 
2d  a 2d 
'id  a 2d 
•id  a lid 
£7  a £6  10s 
£6  a £7 
£4 10s  a £5  10s 
Is  a 2s  6d 
Is  6d  a 3s  3d 
2s  a 2s  6d 
2s  3d  a 3s  3d 
Is  6d  a 2s  2d 
Is  a Is  6d 
Is  a Is  6d 
2s  34  a 3s  lOd 
Is  6d  a 2s  2d 
IS  a Is  5d 
fid  a 2s  2d 
3d 
a 2Jd 
2 a 2^d 
53  s 0 GOs 
47s  Gi  a 52s  6d 
6|d  a Is  5d 
6d  a Is 
SJd  a lOd 
od  a 9d 
2Jd  a 7d 
21  a 3£d 
2 id  a 2jd 
id  a |d 
10s  alls 
106s  a 109s 
99s  a 105s 
25s  a 30s 
13s  a 22s  6d 
15s  a 20s 
20s  a 32s 
50s  a 90s 
GJs  a 70s 
50s  a 60s 
90s  a £5 
58s  a 70s 
47s  a 50s 
42s  a 46s 
30  a 35s 
25s  a 60s 
£11  a £13 
£9  10s  a £10  10 
£5  a £8  10s 
£8  a £9 15s 
£6  a £9 
Fair  to  tine  plant 
Fair  to  fine  bright 
Common  dull  and  mixe  1 
Common  to  good 
Fair  sifted  .. 
Mid.  Plantation  Ceylon 
Low  Middlin; 
Good  to  fine  bright  sound 
Ordinary  & midd  ing 
Fair  to  tine  fresh 
Fair  to  fine  dry 
Ordinary  to  good  drop  ... 
Fair  to  tine  dark  blue  ... 
Good  white  and  green  ... 
Good  to  fine  bold 
Small  and  medium 
Fair  to  fine  bold 
Small  and  medium 
Fair  to  good  
Blocky  to  fine  clean 
Picked  fine  pale  in  sorts, 
Port  yellow  & mixed  do. 
Bean  & Pea  size  ditto  ... 
Amber  and  red  bold  ... 
Medium  & bold  sorts 
Good  to  tine  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  . '25s  a 50s 
Dark  to  fine  pale  ...[15s  a 50s 
Fair  to  fine  pinky  block 
and  drop  
Ordinary  stony  to  midlin 
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 
Red  hard  clean  ball 
Wbite  softish  ditto 
Unripe  root 
Liver  
Sausage, fairtofineonsticks 
Good  to  fine 
Common  foul  & middlin, 
Fairto  good  clean 
Goodto  fine  pinky  &white 
Fai  r to  good  black 
J good  to  fine  pale 
\ dark  to  fair 
Clean  thin  to  fine  bold...jls  fid  a 3s 
'Dark  mixed  to  fine  pale  [3d  a Is  fid 
55s  a 70s 
35s  a 50s 
40  s a 50s 
23s  a 33s 
55a  a 70s 
40s  a 80s 
15s  a 35s 
90s  a lOOs 
£5  a £7 
70s  a 80s 
35s  a 60s 
22s  6d  a 32s  fid 
12s  a 18s 
10s  a 15s 
Is  lOd  a 2s  2|d 
la  7d  a Is  lid 
lOd  a Is  5i 
Is  4d  a Is  lOd 
Is  7d  a Is  lOd 
Is  6d  a 2s  Id 
9d  a Is  5d 
Is  5d  a Is  9d 
I s lOd  a 2s  2d 
Is  3d  a Is  8d 
Is  8d  a 2s  4d 
Is  a Is  63 
Sarraokee  Leaf  [Common  to  good  pale  „.|U  2d  a 2s  9^ 
EAST  INDIA  Continued 
East  Coast  Africa.  Mala- 
bar and  Madras  Coast,  , 
Bengal. 
QUALITY. 
INDIGO,  Bengal 
Kurpah  
Madras  (Dry  Leaf). 
IVORY— Elephants’  Teeth- 
65  lb  & upwards 
over  30  & under  60  lb 
40  a 100  lb. 
ScriveUoes  
Billiard  Ball  Pieces 2Ja  3fin 
Bagatelle  Points 
Cut  Points  for  Balls 
Mixed  Points  & Tips... 
Cut  Hollows 
Sea  Horse  Teeth  — 
fall  lb. 
MYRABOLANES,  Bombay 
Madras,  Upper  Godavery 
Coast 
Pickings 
Bombay 
MACE, 
NUTMEGS, 
NUX  1 Cochin,  Madra; 
VOMICA  ( and  Bonbay 
OIL,  CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMONGRASS 
ORCHELLA  1 £eyl°? 
WEED  ( ?,auzlbl? 
) Mozambique 
PEPPER— 
Malabar,  Black  sifted  .. 
Alleppee  & Tellieherry 
Tellicherry,  White 
PLUMBAGO,  Lump 
Chips 
Dust 
RED  WOOD  
SAFFLOWER,  Bengal 
SALTPETRE,  Bengal  ... 
SANDAL  WOOD,  Logs  .. 
,,  ,,  Chips. 
SAP  AN  WOOD  
8EEDLAC  
4ENNA,  Tinnevelly 
Bombay 
SHELLS,  M.-o'-P. 
large 
medium  part  stout 
chicken  part  stout 
oyster  & broken  pcs 
Mussel 
Lingah  Ceylon 
TAMARINDS 
TORTOISESHELL 
Zanzibar  and  Bombay 
TURMERIC, Bengal 
Madras 
Middling  to  fine  violet ... 
Ordinary  to  middling  ... 
Fairto  good  reddish  violt 
Ordinary  and  middling... 
Middling  to  good 
Low  to  ordinary 
Soft  sound 
Hard  ,,  , 
Soft  ,,  , 
Hard  ,, 
Souud  soft 
Sli.  def.to  fine  sound  soft 
Shaky  10  fine  solid  sd.  sft 
Defective,  part  hard 
Thin  to  thick  to  sound, 
soft 
Straight  crkel  part  close 
Bhimlies  I,  good  & fine 
pale 
,,  H,  fair  pickings 
Jubbleporel,  good  & fine 
pale 
,,  II,  fair  re- 
jections 
Vingorlas,  good  and  fine 
Good  to  fine  picked 
Common  to  middling  ... 
Fair  ... 
Burnt  and  defective  ... 
Dark  to  good  bold  pale... 
W’d com.  darkto fine  bold 
fi-5’s  a 81’s 
90’s  a 12o’s 
f Fair  to  fine  bold  fresh 
) Small  ordinary  and  fair 
Fair  to  fine  heavy 
Bright  & good  flavour  . 
Mid.  to  fine,  not  woody 
Picked  cleau  flat  leaf  ... 
,,  w;ry  
QUOTATION! 
Is  83  a 5s  6d 
S3  103  a 4s  6d 
3s  64  a 3s  lOd 
2s  103  a 3s  4d 
2s  8d  a 3s  2d 
2s  a 2s  61 
£63  a £74  10s 
£52  a £63 
£10  a £53 
£25  a £40 
£15  a £27  10s 
£75  a £84  10S 
£65  a £79  10* 
£58  a £63  10s 
£40  a £50 
£33  a £53 
Is  a 3s  fid 
9s  a 10s  fid 
5s  91  a‘7s  3d 
8s  a 9s  63 
5s  61  a 7s  33 
7i  a 7s  63 
8s  a 9s 
6s  a 7s 
7s  a 7s  6d 
5s  a 6s  3d 
Is  7d  a 2s  lid 
fid  a Is  fid 
2s  5d  a 3s  Id 
Is  6d  a 2s  4d 
8s  a 9s  fid 
fis  a 8s 
9d  a 2s 
idafi 
1 jd  a lfd 
2us  a 25s 
10s  a 20s 
25s  a 35s 
3£d  a 3}d 
10d  a Is 
15s  a 25s 
11s  a 14s 
9s  a 12s 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, 
Bourbon , 
Mauritius, 
Seychelles, 
Fair  to  bold  heavy...  1 
,.  good  I 
,,  ,.  ,,  nom 
Fair  to  fine  bright  bold  1 
Middlingto  good  small... 
Sli'tly  foul  to  fine  bright  S 
Ordiuaiy  to  fine  bright. ..[2s  9d  a 5s 
Fair  and  fine  bold  ..{£3  a £3  10s 
Goodtofinepinkynominal  60s  a 80s 
Ordinary  to  fair  ...  40s  a 65s 
Iuferior  and  pickings  ...  20s  a 30s 
Ordinary  to  good  ...  16s  fid  a 17s 
Fair  to  fine  flavour  ...  £35  a £60 
Inferior  to  fine  ...  £9  a £30 
Lean  to  good  bold  ...  £4  a £7 
Ordinary  to  fine  bright  40s  a 70s 
Good  to  fine  bold  green...  8d  a Is 
Medium  to  bold  green...  6d  a 81 
Small  and  medium  green  3}d  a 5J 
Common  dark  and  small  Id  a 2jd 
Ordinar.  to  good  ...  Id  a 2d 
Egyptian— bold  clean...  37s  6d  a 100s 
medium  part  stout  £5  5s  a £6  5g 
chickenj  £4  15s  a £5  5s 
Bombay— good tofinethiciv5s  a 110s 
clean  part  good  color  £5  12s  6d»£6  16i 
,,  „ „ 1 9's  a 100s 
,,  ,,  ,,  55s  a 70s 
bold  sorts  (1  lot  76s)  50s  a 60s 
small  and  medium  sorts  35s  a 47s  fid 
Tbinand  good  stout  sorts  6s  a 12s 
Mid.  tofinoblacknotstony  8s  a 9s 
Stony  and  inferior  ...  4s  a 6s 
Sorts  good  mottle,  heavy  23s  a 25s 
Pickings  thin  to  heavy  ;7s  63  a 18s 
Leamsh  to  fine  plump1 
finger  ...  ..Il9s  a 21s 
Fin.  fair  to  fine  bold  brgt  28s  a 32s 
Mixed  middling 23s  a 27s 
Bulbs  ...  9s  a 12s 
Finger  ...  114s  a 17s 
| lsts  ., 
2nds. 
1 3rds.. 
Fine,  cryst’ed  5 to  9 in.  12-*  a 21s 
Foxy  & reddish  5 to  8 in,  9s  fid  a 153 
Lean  & dry  to  mid.  un-[ 
der  6 in.  ...  6s  a 10s 
4ths,„lLow,  foxy,  inferior  and| 
' pickings,,,  ,,,.48  Sh  J* 
