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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
[March  x,  1893. 
MARKET  RATES  FOR  OLD  AND  NEW  PRODUCTS. 
( From  S.  Figgis  <£■  Co.'s  Fortnightly  Price  Current,  London,  January  26th,  1893. ) 
EAST  INDIA. 
Bombay,  Ceylon,  Madras 
Coast  and  Zanzibar. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
ALOES,  Socotrine  ... 
Zanzibar  & Hepatic 
BARK,  CINCHONA  Crown 
Red... 
BEES' WAX,  E.I.,  White 
Yellow  . 
Mauritius  Sc  Madagascar. 
CARDAMOMS— 
AUepee 
Mangalore  ... 
Malabar 
Ceylon. Malabar  sort 
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 
COFEE E 
COLOMBO  root!.'.’ 
CROTON  SEEDS,  sifted... 
CUTCH  
DRAGONS  BLOOD,  Zan. 
GALLS,  Bussorah&  Turkey 
GINGER,  Cochin,  Cut  ... 
Rough... 
Bengal,  Rough 
GUM  AMMON  I ACUM  ... 
ANIMI,  washed  ... 
Good  and  line  dry  liver... 
Common  and  good 
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... 
Goodto  fine  plump,  cliped 
Fairto  finebold  bleached 
,,  ,,  medium  ,, 
,,  ,,  small 
8mall  to  bold  brown  . 
Fair  to  fine  bold 
,,  medium 
,,  small 
Common  to  good 
White  
Fair  and  good  pale 
Brown  and  brownish 
Fair  to  fine  bright  nom 
Ord’y.  and  middling 
Ord'y.  to  fine  pale  quill.. 
£4  a £5 
10s  a £5  10s 
3d  a 8d 
4d  a 7d 
2d  a 4d 
Id  a 2d 
2d  a 7d 
4d  a 6d 
2d  a 3d 
Ida  2d 
Id  a lid 
£7  a £8  10a 
£6  a £7 
£4  10s  a £5  10s 
EAST  INDIA  Continued 
East  Coast  Africa.  Mala- 
bar and  Madras  Coast, 
Bengal. 
scraped... 
ARABIC  E.I.  & Aden  .. 
Ghatti 
Amrad  elm. 
Mad  ras 
ASSAFCETIDA 
KINO 
MYRRH,  picked 
Aden  sorts 
OLIBANUM,  drop... 
pickings., 
siftings  .. 
INDIARUBBER  
East  African  Ports,  Zanzi 
bar  and  Mozambique  CoaBt 
Assam, 
Rangoon  
Madagascar,  Tamatave,  j 
Majunga  and  Nossibe  j 
ISINGLASS  orlT 
FISH  MAWS  J 10  gU6, 
Bladder  Pipe  ., 
Purse  .. 
Karrachee  Leal 
Fair  to  fine  plant 
Fair  to  fine  bright 
Common  dull  and  mixed 
Common  to  good 
Fair  sifted 
Mid.  Plantation  Ceylon 
Low  Middling  ,, 
Good  to  fine  bright  sound 
Ordinary  & middling 
Fair  to  fine  fresh 
Fair  to  fine  dry 
Ordinary  to  good  drop 
Fair  to  fine  dark  blue 
Good  white  and  green 
Good  to  flue  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 
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  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 
White  softish  ditto 
Unripe  root  
Liver  
Sausage  ,f  airtofi  neonsticks 
Good  to  fine 
Common  foul  & middling 
Fairto  good  clean 
Goodto finepinky  &white 
Fair  to  good  black 
t good  to  fine  pale 
\dark  to  fair 
Clean  th  n to  fine  bold... 
Dark  mixed  to  fine  pale 
Common  to  Sue  pale  ,„ 
Is  a 2s  6d 
Is  fid  a 3s  3d 
2s  a 2s  fid 
28  3d  a 3s  3d 
Is  6d  a 2s  2d 
Is  e Is  6d 
Is  a Is  fid 
2s  3d  a 3s  Did 
Is  fid  a 2s  2d 
is  a Is  5d 
fid  a 2s  2d 
3d  a 3£d 
2j  l a 2|d 
2^1  a 2Jd 
50s  a 55s 
15s  a 50s 
6§d  a Is  5d 
fid  a Is 
5§d  a lOd 
5d  a 9d 
2>-d  a 7d 
3 15-16d  a 4^d 
3£d  a djd 
?da  Id 
8s  a 9s 
1109  a U2s 
106s  a 109b 
22s  a 27s 
169  a 20s 
15s  a 20s 
20s  a 32s' 
50s  a 90s 
55s  a 60s 
50s  a 57s  GA 
90s  a £5 
58s  a 70s 
62s  a 70s 
57s  a 62s 
30  a 35s 
25s  a 50s 
£11  0s  a £13  0s 
£9  10s  a £1010s 
£5  a £8  10s 
£8  a £9  15s 
£fi  a £9 
INDIGO,  Bengal 
Kurpah  
Madras  (Dry  Leaf) 
IVORY— Elephants’  Teeth 
65  lb.  Sc  upwards 
over  30  & under  65  lb 
60  a 100  lb. 
Scrivelloes  
Billiard  Ball  Pieces  2ia3Jin 
Bagatelle  Points 
Cut  Points  for  Balle 
Mixed  Points  & Tips.. 
Cut  Hollows 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
50s  a 70s 
35s  a 45s 
40s  a 50s 
23s  a 33s 
55s  a 70s 
25s  a 50s 
15s  a 50s 
Sea  Horse  Teeth — 
1 a If  lb. 
V1YRABOLANES,  Bombay 
Madras,  Upper  Godavery 
MACE, 
NUTMEGS, 
NITX  ) Cochin,  Madras 
VOMICA  i and  Boubay 
)IL,  CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMONGBASS 
Ceylon 
Zanzibar 
Mozambique 
PEPPER— 
Malabar,  Black  sifted  .. 
Alleppee  Sc  Tellicberry 
Tellicherry,  White 
PLUMBAGO,  Lump 
OBCHELLA 
WEED 
Coast 
Pickings 
Bombay 
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  ,,  „ 
Sound  9oft 
Sli  def.to  fine  sound  soft 
Shaky  lo  fiDe  solid  sd.  sft 
Defective,  part  hard 
Thin  to  thick  to  sound 
80ft 
Straight  erked  part  close 
Bhimlies  I,  good  & fine 
pale 
II,  tair  picking: 
Jubbieporel,  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 
fio’s  a 81’s 
90's  a 125’s 
( Fair  to  fine  bold  fresh 
Small  ordinary  and  fair 
Fair  to  fine  heavy 
Bright  Sc  good  flavour 
5s  fid  a 6s  2d 
Is  fid  a 5s  6d 
3s  9d  a 4s  4d 
3s  2d  a 3s  8d 
3s  a 3s  lOd 
2s  4d  a 2s  10d 
£67  a £77  10s 
£55  a £71 
£50  a £56  10s 
£25  a £39  10a 
£l8a£27 
£70  a £82 
£65  a £73  10s 
£55  a £69  10s 
£33  a £18  10s 
Fair  to  bold  heavy ...  \ 
„ good  I 
, , nom 
Fair  to  fine  bright  bold 
Middling  to  good  small... 
Chips  ...  Sli'tly  foul  to  fine  bright 
Dust  ...  Ordinary  to  fine  bright 
RED  WOOD  ...  ...  Fair  and  fine  bold 
SAFFLOWER,  Bengal  Goodtofinepinkynominal 
Ordinary  to  fair 
Inferior  and  pickings 
SALTPETRE,  Pengal  ...  Ordinary  to  good 
SANDAL  WOOD,  Logs...  Fair  to  fine  flavour 
Chips..  Inferior  to  fine 
Mid.  to  fine,  not  woody 
Picked  clean  flat  leaf 
,,  wiry 
£30  a £51 
Is  2d  a 4s  5d 
10s  a Us  3d 
5s  fid  a 7s  3d 
8s  9d  a 9s  fid 
5s  9d  a 7s  3d 
91  a 7a  6d 
8s  a 8s  fid 
5s  fid  a 7s  3d 
7s  a Is  3d 
5s  3d  a 6s  0d 
Is  7d  a 2s  lid 
a 1 a fid 
2s  ?d  a 3s  Id 
Is  6d  a 2s  4d 
8s  a 9s  fid 
fis  a 8s 
9d  a 2s 
id  a }d 
1^1  a Ud 
2zs  a 28s 
14s  a 23s 
27s  a 35s 
SAPAN  WOOD 
3EEDLAC 
SENNA,  Tinnevelly 
Bombay 
SHELLS,  M.-o’-P, 
50s  a 90s 
large 

20s  a 45s 
medium  part  stout 
UOs  a 120s 
chicken  part  stout 
£5  a £7 
oyster  & broken  pcs 
75s  a 85s 
Mussel 
... 
35s  a 60s 
22s  6d  a 32s  fid 
Llngah  Ceylon  ... 
12s  a 18s 
TAMARINDS 
10s  a 15s 
Is  Ud  a 2s  3d 
TORTOISESHELL 
Is  7d  a 2s 
Zanzibar  and  Bombay 
lOda  Is  6d 
TURMERIC, Bengal 
Is  4d  a Is  Ud 
Is  9d  a 2s  2d 
Madras  ... 
Is  7d  a 2s  3d 
» 
9d  a ls6d 
, 
Is  7d  a Is  lid 
Cochin 
2s  a 2s  Gd 
VANILLOES, 
la  6d  a Is  Ud 
Bourbon, 
lsts  ... 
Is  8d  a 2s  4d 
Mauritius, 
2nds... 
Is  a Is  6d 
Seychelles, 
3rds... 
1 s fid  a 2s  9d 
fid  a is  8d 
Madagascar, , 
4ths.„ 
la  a 2a  9d  | 
...  Lean  to  good  bold 
...  Ordinary  to  fine  bright 
Good  to  fine  bold  green... 
Medium  to  bold  green... 
Small  and  medium  green 
Common  dark  and  small 
Ordinary  to  good 
Egyptian— bold  clean 
medium  part  stout 
chicken 
Bombay— good  to finethic 
clean  part  good  color 
bold  sorts  (1  lot  75s) 
small  and  medium  sorts 
Thin  and  good  stout  sorts 
Mid.  tofineblacknotstony 
Stony  and  inferior 
Sorts"  good  mo  tie,  heavy 
Pickings  thin  to  heavy 
Leamsh  to  fine  plump 
finger  ... 
Fin.  fair  to  fine  bold  brgt 
Mixed  middling 
Bulbs  ...  
Finger  ...  
Fiue,  cryst’ed  5 to  9 in 
Foxy  & reddish  5 to  8 in. 
Lean  Sc  dry  to  mid.  un- 
der 6 in. 
Low,  foxy,  inferior  and 
pickings 
3d  a 3|d 
10d  a Is 
15s  a 25s 
Us  a 14s 
9s  a 12s 
2s  9d  a 5s 
£3  a £3  10s 
60s  a 80s 
40s  a 55s 
20s  a 30s 
16s  fid  a 17s 
£35  a £65 
£9  a £30 
£4  a £7 
40s  a 90s 
9d  a Is  4d 
6d  a 8d 
3d  a 5d 
Id  a 3d 
Id  a 3d 
92s  6d  a 102s  6* 
110s  a 122s  6d 
85s  a 97s  fid 
95s  a 110s 
£5  10s  a £6 15s 
100s  a 105b 
55s  a 72s  6d 
45s  a 57s  fid 
36s  a 42s 
3s  a 12a 
5s  a 23s 
8s  a 9s 
Is  a 6s 
20s  a 22s 
8s  a 15s 
22  a 24s 
27s  a 32s 
23s  a 2 fis 
]Os  a lfis 
23s  a 25s 
13s  a 24s 
Us  a lfis 
7s  a Us 
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