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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST, 
[Jan.  2,  1893. 
MARKET  RATES  FOR  OLD  AND  NEW  PRODUCTS. 
(From  S.  Figgis  <£  Co.’s  Fortnightly  Price  Current,  London,  Decembet  15th,  1892.) 
EAST  INDIA. 
Bombay,  Ceylon,  Madras 
Coast  and  Zanzibar. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
ALOES,  Soootrine  Good  and  tine  dry  liver...  £4  a £5 
Zanzibar  & Hepatic  Common  and  good 
BARK, CINCHONA  Crown  Renewed 
Medium  to  fine  Quill 
Red... 
BEES’ WAX,  E.I.,  White 
Yellow  ... 
Mauritius  & Madagascar... 
CARDAMOMS— 
Allepee  
Mangalore  
Malabar  
Ceylon,  Malabar  sort 
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  flue.. 
Goodto  fine  plump, cliped,2sa  2s  6d 
Alleppee  and 
Mysore  sort 
Long  wild  Ceylon... 
CASTOR  OIL,  lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
CHILLIES,  Zanzibar 
CINNAMON,  lsts 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
CLOVES,  Zanzibar 
and  Pemba. 
„ STEMS 
COCULUS  INDICUS 
COFFEE  
COLOMBO  ROOT... 
CROTON  SEEDS,  sifted... 
CUTCH  
DRAGONS  BLOOD,  Zan. 
GALLS,  Bussorah&  Turkey 
GINGER,  Cochi  u,  Cut 
Rough... 
Bengal,  Rough 
SUM  AMMON  I AC  UM  .. 
ANIMI,  wushed  .. 
scraped... 
ARABIC  E.I.  & Aden 
Fairto  fiuebold  bleached 
medium  ,, 
small 
Small  to  bold  brown  ., 
Fair  to  fine  bold 
medium 
small 
Common  to  good 
White  
Fair  and  good  pule 
Brown  and  brownish  . 
Fair  to  fine  bright  nom. 
Ord’y.  and  middling  . 
Ord’y.  to  fine  pale  quill. 
(Os  a £5  10s 
3d  a 8d 
4d  a 7d 
2d  a 4d 
Id  a 21 
2d  a 7d 
4d  a 6d 
2d  a 3d 
Ida  2d 
Id  a lid 
£7  a £8  10s 
£G  a £7 
£4  10s  a £5  10s 
le  a 2s  6d 
Is  6d  a 3a  3d 
Ghatti  .. 
Amrad  eha 
Madras 
A SSAFCET1DA 
KINO  
MYRRH,  picked 
Aden  sorts 
OLlIlANUM,  drop... 
pickings... 
siftings  ... 
INDIARUBBER  
East  African  Ports,  Zanzi- 
bar and  Mozambique  Coast 
Assam, 
Rangoon 
,UnUa  rascar,  Tanjat-avo,  i 
Majuuga  and  Nusaibe  j 
ISINGLASS  or  1 ™ 
FISH  MAWS  | ToDgue. 
Bladder  Pipe  .. 
Purse 
Karrachee  Leaf  ,,, 
Fair  to  fine  plant 
Fair  to  fine  bright 
Common  dull  and  mixed 
Common  to  good 
Fair  sifted 
Mid.  Plantation  CeyloD 
Low  Middling 
Good  to  fine  bright  sound 
Ordinary  & middling 
Fair  to  lino  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 
Blocky  to  fine  clean 
Picked  fine  pale  in  sorts, 
Part  yellow  & mixed  do. 
Bean  & Pea  size  ditto 
Amber  and  red  bold 
Medium  Sc  bold  sorts 
Goodto  fine  pale  frosted 
sifted 
Sorts,  dull  red  to  fair 
Goodto  fine  pale  selected 
Sorts  middling  to  good... 
Good  and  fine  pale 
Reddish  to  pale  brown  . 
Dark  to  fine  pale 
Fair  to  fine  pinky  block 
and  drop 
2s  3d  a 38  3d 
Is  fid  a 2s  2d 
Is  4 Is  6d 
Is  a Is  0d 
2s  3-.1  a 3s  10d 
Is  6d  a 2s  2d 
Is  a Is  od 
8d  a 2s  2d 
3d  a 3£ 1 
I i a 2|d 
U a 2J,d 
52s  a 55s 
1 5s  a 50s 
8£  a Is  5d 
61  a Is 
5Jd  a lOd 
5d  a 9d 
2}d  a 7d 
3i  a 3*d 
3d  a 3|i 
Ida  Jd 
88  a 9s 
109s  a 110a 
104s  a 107s 
2 Is  a 27s 
lfis  a 20s 
15s  a 20s 
20s  a 32a 
50s  a 90s 
55s  a 69s 
50s  a 57s  61 
90s  a £5 
58s  a 703 
47s  a 50s 
42s  a 46s 
30  a 35s 
25s  a 60s 
£11  0s  a £13  0s 
£9  106  ft  £10  10» 
£5  a £8  10s 
£8  a £9  15s 
£6  0a  a £9 
50a  a 70s 
35s  a 45s 
40a  a 50 
23s  a 33i 
55s  a 70s 
25s  a 50s 
15s  a 50s 
EAST  INDIA  Continued 
Eist  Coast  Africa.  Mala- 
bar and  Madras  Coast, 
Bengal. 
INDIGO,  Bengal 
Kurpah  
Madras  (Dry  Leaf) 
TV'ORY— Elephants’  Teeth 
G5  lb.  & upwards 
over  30  & under  65  lb. 
50  a 100  lb. 
Scrivelloes  
Billiard  Ball  Pieces 2Ja 3}m 
Bagatelle  Points 
Cut  Points  for  Balls 
Mixed  Points  & Tips... 
Cut  Hollows 
Sea  Horse  Teeth  — 
t a 1|  lb. 
VIYRABOLANES,  Bombay 
....  40s  a 80s 
Ordinary  stony  to  nudliug:153  a 35s 
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 
White  softish  ditto 
Unripe  root 
Liver 
•110s  a 120s 
■ £6  a £7 
•|"0s  a 80s 
•'35s  a 60s 
■ 22s  6d  a 33a  6d 
■•■12s  a 18s 
•10s  a 15s 
• 1 Is  1 0 J a 2s  2£d 
■■  Is  7d  a Is  lid 
■ ■ lOd  a la  5d 
Is  4d  a Is  lOd 
Sausage, fairtofineonsticksis  7.1  0 p3  iod 
Good  to  fine  Is  6d  a 2s  ltd 
Common  foul  & middling  qh  « i-  r,i 
Fair  to  good  clean  ..*  ?3  5*  al79,d 
Goodtofinepmky &wliite  ]s  10d  h 2s  2d 
Fair  to  good  black  ...  Is  3d  a Is  8d  ' 
( good  to  fine  pale  ...  is  8d  a 2s  4d 
l dark  to  fair  ...  ya  a ls  yj 
Clean  thin  to  fine  bold...  )s  t}j  a -2,  9J 
Dark  mixed  to  fine  pale  6d  a ls  8 1 
Common  to  good  pale  ...  iaa  2s  3d 
Madras,  Upper  Godavery 
Coast 
QUALITY, 
QUOTATIONS 
Middling  to  fine  violet  ..  5s  6d  a 6s  2d 
Ordinary  to  middling  ...|!s  8d  a 5s  6d 
Fair  to  good  reddish  violt|3s  9d  a 4s  4d 
Ordinary  and  middling  ..  3s  2d  a 3s  8d 
Middling  to  good 
Low  to  ordinary 
Soft  sound 
J3s  a 3s  lOd 
. '2s  4d  a 2s  101 
Hard  ,, 
Soft  ,, 
Hard  ,, 
Sound  soft 
Sli.  def.to  fine  sound  soft . 
Shaky  >o  fine  solid  sd.  sft  £55  a £67  10s 
Defective,  part  hard  ...|£31  a £18  10a 
Thin  tn  thick  to  sound, 
£65  a £71  10s 
£53  a £68 
£44  a £54 
£25  a £39  10s 
£18a£27 
£70  a £82 
£63  a £09  10s 
soft 
straight  crkel  pait  close  1 
Bhimliee  I,  good  & fine 
pale  1 
,,  II,  tair  pickings 
Jubbleporel,  good  & fine 
pale  f 
II,  fair  re- 
jections ...  t 
Vingorlas.  good  and  fine  6-  91  a 7s  6d 
' ’ ’ 8s  a 9s 
£30  a £51 
ls  2d  a 4s  5d 
9s  a 10s  6d 
5a  6d  a 7s  3d 
8s  4jd  a 99  6d 
5s  9Ja  7s 3d 
MACE, 
NUTMEGS, 
Pickings 
Bombay 
Good  to  fine  picked 
Common  to  middling  ... 
Fair  ... 
Burnt  and  delective  ... 
Dark,  to  good  bold  pale... 
W’d  com . darkto  line  bold 
65’s  a 81’9 
j90's  a 125’s 
NITX  1 Cochin,  Madras'  ( Fair  to  fine  bold  fresh 
VOMICAl  and  Bonb  iy  ( Small  ordinary  and  fair 
)IL,  CINNAMON  ...  Fair  to  fine  heavy 
CITRONELLE  ...  Bright  & good  flavour.. 
LEMONGRASS  ..  I 
Ceylon  ...  Mid.  to  fine,  not  wood., 
Zanzibar  ...  Picked  clean  flat  leaf 
ORCHELLA I 
W EED  J j40zamt,iqUe 
PEPPER— 
Malabar,  Black  sifted  .. 
Alleppee  & Tellicherry 
Tellicherry,  White 
PLUMBAGO,  Lump 
Chips 
Dust 
RED  WOOD  
SAFFLOWER,  Bengal 
SALTPETRE,  Bengal 
SANDAL  WOOD,  Logs 
,,  Chips 
JAPAN  WOOD  ... 
1EEDLAC 
•JENN  A,  Tinnevelly 
Bombay 
SHELLS,  M.-o’-P. 
wiry 
7s  3d  a 7s  9d 
5s  3d  a 6s  C 1 
Is  7d  a 2s  lid 
63  a Is  6d 
2s  5d  a 3s  Id 
Is  6d  a 2s  Id 
8s  a 9s  6d 
6s  a 8s 
9d  a 2s 
Id  a}l 
IFd  a l|d 
2 is  a 28s 
Its  a 233 
,278  ft  35s 
3d  a 3£d 
10d  a ls 
large 
medium  part  stout’ 
chicken  part  stout 
oyster  & broken  pcs 
Mussel 
Llngali  Ceylon 
TAMARINDS 
TORTOISESHELL 
Zanzibar  and  Bombay 
TURMERIC, Bengal 
Madras 
Fair  to  bold  heavy ... 
,,  good  ,,  ... 
,.  ,,  ,,  nom 
Fair  to  fine  bright  bold  15s  a 25s 
Middlingto  good  small...  11s  a 14s 
Sli’tly  foul  tu  fine  bright  9s  a 12s 
Ordinary  to  fine  bright...  2s  9d  a 5s 
Fair  and  fine  bold  ...j£3  a £3  10s 
Good  to  finepinky  nominal  [60s  a 80s 
Ordinary  to  fair  ...  4ls  a 55s 
Inferior  and  pit  kings 
Ordinary  to  good 
Fair  to  fine  flavour 
Inferior  to  fine 
...  Lean  to  good  bold 
...  Ordinary  to  fine  bright 
....Good  to  fine  bold  green... 
Medium  to  bold  green... 
iSmalland  medium  green 
Common  dark  and  smal 
...  Oidinarj  to  good 
..^Egyptian-— bold  clean.. 
medium  part  stoui 
chicken 
Bombay — good  tofiuethic 
cle  n part  good  color 
Cochin 
VANTLLOES, 
Bourbon, 
Mauri  tins, 
Seychelles, 
Madagascar,  , 
lsts  ... 
2uds... 
3rds... 
4ths.„ 
bold  sorts  (1  lot  75s) 
small  and  m dium  sorts 
Thiu  and  gOud  stout  sorts 
Mid.  tolinoblacknotstony 
Stonv  and  inferior 
Sorts"  good  mo  tie,  heavy 
Pickings  thin  to  heavy 
Leauish  to  fine  plump 
finger  ... 
Fin.  fair  to  fine  boldbrgt 
M xed  middling 
Bulbs  ...  
Finger  ... 
Fine,  cryst’ed  5 to  9 in. 
Foxy  8c  reddish  5 to  8 in. 
Lean  & dry  to  mid.  un- 
der 6 in.  ... 
L0W1  foxy,  inferior  and 
pickings 
20s  a 30s 
lbs  6d  a 17s 
£35  a £60 
£9  a £30 
£4  a £7 
408  a 70s 
Jd  a ls  44 
6i  a 8d 
id  a 53 
Id  a 31 
d a 3d 
92s  6d  a 102s  0d 
UOs  a 122s  6d 
35s  a 97s  6d 
95s  a 110s 
£5  10s  a (£6 15a 
100s  a 105a 
55s  a 72s  Gd 
453  a 57s  6d 
36s  a 42s 
3s  a 1 Js 
Ss  a 9s 
4s  a 6s 
203  a 22s 
83  a 15s 
12  a 243 
29s  a 34s 
14s  a 289 
9s  a 12s 
23s  a 25s 
12->  a 21s 
9s 6d  a 15s 
6s  ft  10s 
4»  ft  7* 
