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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST 
[May  i,  1893. 
MARKET  RATES  FOR  OLD  AND  NEW  PRODUCTS. 
(From  S.  Figgis  <£  Co.'s  Fortnightly  Price  Current,  London . March  23rd , 1893.) 
EAST  INDIA. 
Bombay,  Ceylon,  Madras 
Coast  and  Zanzibar. 
QUALITY. 
/QUOTATION'S 
ALOES,  Socotrine  
Zanzibar  & Hepatic 
BAKE,  CINCHONA  Crown 
Red... 
BEES’ WAX,  E.I.,  White 
Y'ellow  .. 
Mauritius  & Madagascar.. 
CARDAMOMS— 
AUepee  
Mangalore 
Malabar  
Ceylon. Malabar  sort 
Alleppee  and 
Mysore  sort 
Long  wild  Ceylon... 
CASTOR  OIL,  lsts 
2nds 
CHILLIES,  Zanzibar 
CINNAMON, 
CLOVES, 
lsts 
2uds 
3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
Zanzibar  1 
and  Pemba.  1 
„ STEMS 
COCULUS  INDICUS  ., 
COFFEE  
COLOMBO  root!!! 
CROTON  SEEDS,  sifted.. 
CUTCH  
DRAGONS  BLOOD,  Zan 
GALLS,  Bussorab&  Turkey 
GINGER,  Cochin,  Cut  .. 
Rough.. 
Bengal,  Rough 
GUM  AMMONIACUM  .. 
ANIMI,  washed  .. 
scraped... 
ARABIC  E.I.  & Adeu 
Ghatti  .. 
Amrad  cha 
Madras 
ASSAFGETIDA 
KINO  
MYRRH,  picked 
Aden  sorts 
OLIBANUM,  drop.. 
pickings., 
siftings  .. 
INDIARUBBER  
East  African  Ports,  Zar.zi 
bar  and  Mozambique  Coast 
IN  DIARUBBER  Assam, 
Rangoon  
Madagascar,  Tapiataye,  I 
Majunga  and  Nossibe  ] 
Bladder  Pipe  .. 
JJarrachee  Leaf 
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  fiue  
Fair  to  fine  
Fair  to  fine  clipped 
Bold,  bright,  fairto  fiue.. 
Good  to  fine  plump,  cb  ped 
Fairto  fine  bold  bleached 
,,  ,,  medium  , 
,,  ,,  small 
Small  to  bold  brown 
Fair  to  fine  bold 
„ ,,  medium 
,,  ,,  small 
Common  to  good 
White 
Fair  and  good  pale 
Fair  to  fine  bright  nom... 
Ord’y.  and  middling  ... 
Ord’y.  to  fine  pale  quill... 
EAST  1NL>IA  Continued 
East  Coast  Africa.  Mala- 
bar and  Madras  Coast, 
Bengal. 
£4  a £5 
40s  a £ » 10s 
3d  a 7d 
4d  a 6d 
2d  a 4d 
Id  a l|d 
2d  a Gd 
4d  a 6d 
2d  a 3d 
Ida  2d 
Id  a l£d 
£7  a £8 10s 
£6  a £7 
£5  a £5  15s 
Is  a 2s  6d 
Is  6d  a 3s  3d 
2s  a 2s  6d 
‘2s  3d  a 33  3d 
Is  fid  a 2s  2d 
Is  h Is  6d 
Is  a Is  Gd 
2s  3d  a 3s  lOd 
Is  6d  a ‘2s  2d 
Is  a Is  5d 
Kri  a 2s  2d 
3d  a 3jU 
2£  a 2&d 
44s  a 5us 
35s  a 42s 
6£d  a Is  5d 
6i  a Is 
5£d  a lOd 
od  a 9d 
2^d  a 7d 
4£d  a 4^d 
1 a 4^d 
Ida  ljd 
n 03 
1103  a 1123 
107s  a 109s 
25s  a 30s 
18s  a 20s 
15s  a 203 
20s  a 32s 
60s  a 903 
55s  a 60s 
50s  a 57s  6J 
80s  a 95s 
60s  a 75s 
6 is  a 75s 
60s  a 65s 
45s  a 50s 
25s  a 50s 
£11  0s  a £13  Os 
£9  It'S  a £1010s 
£5  a £8  10s 
£8  0s  a £9  15s 
£6  0s  a £9 
Fair  to  tine  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  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  & 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 
Fair  to  fine  pinky  block 
and  drop  
Ordi  nary  stony  to  midling 
Fair  to  line  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  softisli  ditto 
Unripe  root 
Liver  
Sausage,  fair  to  fine 
" without  sticks. 
Good  to  fine 
Common  foul  & middling  isgj 
Fairto  good  clean  ...|is7d  a Is  lid 
Good  to  fine  pinky  & white  2s  a 2s  01 
Fair  to  good  black  ...  Is  Gd  a Is  Ud 
( good  to  fine  pale  ...  Is  Sd  a 2s  6d 
\dark  to  fair  ...  Is  a Is  6d 
Clean  thm  to  fine  bold..,li8  gd  a 3j  8d 
Dark  mixed  to  fine  p « Gd  a is  6d 
Common  to  fine  pale  “ la  a 39  9d 
50s  a 70s 
35s  a 45s 
4Us  a 50s 
23s  a 33s 
55s  a 7us 
25s  a 50s 
I5s  a 50s 
50s  a 90s 
20s  a 45s 
£16  a £17 
£5  a £7 
78s  a 85s 
35s  a 60s 
22s  6d  a 32s  6d 
1 zs  a 18s 
12s  a 16s 
Is  1 Id  a 2s  3d 
le  7d  a 2s 
lOd  a 1 s 6d 
Is  4d  a Is  Ud 
Is  9d  a Is  lOd 
2s  a 2s  3d 
Is  7d  a 2s  3d 
[NDIGO,  Bengal 
Kurpah  
Madras  (Dry  Leaf) 
IVORY— Elephants’  Teeth 
60  lb.  & upwards 
over  30  & under  60  lb. 
60  a 100  lb. 
Scrivelloes  
Billiard  Ball  Pieces  2Ja  3itu 
Bagatelle  Points 
Cut  Points  for  Balls 
Mixed  Points  & Tips... 
Cut  Hollows 
Sea  Horse  Teeth  — 
| n \\  lb. 
MYRABOLANES,  Bombay 
Middling  to  fine  violet...;-  6a  R 
Ordinary  to  middling  - “i., 
Fairto  good  reddish  viollfe  6,doa  s g . 
Ordinary  and  middling...  | 8d 
Middling  to  good 
Low  to  ordinary 
QUALITY, 
QUOTA  riONS. 
Soft  sound 
Madras,  Upper  Godavery 
Pickings 
Bombay 
Coast 
MACE, 
NUTMEGS, 
NUX  j Cochin,  Madras 
VOMICA  i and  Bombay 
OIL,  CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMONGRASS 
i Cey  on 
J Zanzibar 
PEPPER— 
Malabar,  Black  sifted  .. 
Alleppee  & Tellicherry 
Tellicherry,  White 
PLUMBAGO,  Lump 
ORCHELLA 
WEED 
Mozambique 
Chips 
Dust 
RED  WOOD 
SAFFLOWER,  Bengal 
SALTPETRE,  Bengal 
SANDAL  WOOD,  Logs... 
,,  ,,  Chip: 
3APAN  WOOD  ... 
8EEDLAC 
SENNA,  Tinnevelly 
Bombay 
SHELLS,  M.-o’-P. 
large  
medium  part  stout 
chicken  part  stout 
oyster & broken  pcs 
Mussel 
Lingah  Ceylon  ... 
TAMARINDS  
TORTOISESHELL 
Zanzibar  and  Bombay 
rURMERIC, Bengal  . ... 
Madras  .. 
Hard  ,,  , 
Soft  ,,  , 
Hard  ,,  , 
Sound  soft 
Sli.  def.to  flue  sound  soft 
Shaky  to  fine  solid  sd.  sft 
Defective,  part  hard 
Thiu  to  thick  to  sound 
soft 
Straight  crked  part  close 
Bhimlies  I,  good  & fine 
pale 
, , II,  tair  pickings 
Jubbleporel,  good  & fine 
pale 
,,  II,  fair  re- 
jectioi s 
Vingorlas.  good  and  fine 
Good  to  fiue  picked 
Common  to  middling  ... 
Fair  ... 
Burnt  and  defective  ... 
Dark  to  good  bold  pale... 
W’d com . darkto fine  bold 
65’s  a 81's 
90’s  a 125’s 
(Fairto  line  bold  fresh 
( Small  ordinary  and  fair 
t air  to  fine  heavy  ... 
Bright  & good  flavour.. 
Mid.  to  fine,  not  wood) 
Picked  clean  fiat  leaf  ... 
,,  wiry  ... 
Fair  to  bold  heavy  ...I 
„ good  „ ...  r 
,,  .,  nom 
Fair  to  fine  bright  bolu 
Middling  to  goot  smaU 
Sli’tly  foul  to  fine  bright 
Ordinary  to  fine  bright... 
Fair  and  fiue  bold 
Goodtofiuepinkynominal 
Ordinary  to  fair 
Inferior  and  pickings 
Ordinary  to  good 
Fair  to  fiue  flavour 
Inferior  to  fine 
Lean  to  good  bold 
Ordinary  to  fine  bright 
Good  to  fine  bold  green... 
Medium  to  bold  green... 
Small  and  nnedium  green 
Common  dark  and  small 
Oi  dinar>  to  good 
Egyptian— bold  clean, 
medium  part  stout 
chicken 
Bomb  ay— good  tofinethic 
clean  part  good  color 
'■•  3s  a 3s  8d 
••  ,1s  lOd  a 2s  lOd 
£69  a £77  10s 
£55  a £72 
£50  a £56  10s 
£25  a £39 
£18  a £27 
£70  a £80 
£61  a £73  10s 
£60  10s  a £69 10s 
£33  a £18  10s 
£30  a £50 
Is  2d  a 4s  od 
10s  a Us  3d 
5s  6d  a 7s  3d 
8s  9d  a 9s  6d 
os  9da  7s  3d 
6s  8d  a 7s  6d 
7s  9d  a 8s  3d 
58  a 7s 
6s  9d  a 7s 
os  a 6s  3d 
Is  7d  a 2s  lid 
rtd  a Is  6d 
2s  2d  a 3s  Od 
Is  6d  a 2s  2d 
8s  a 9s  6d 
6s  a 8s 
9d  a 2s 
gd  a id 
lgd  a ljd 
22s  a 28s 
L4s  a 23s 
27s  a 3os 
Cochin 
VANILLOES, 
Bourbon , 
Mauritius, 
Seychelles, 
Madagascar, 
lsts  ... 
2uds... 
3rds... 
Iths.., 
bold  sorts 
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  tine  plump 
finger  ... 
Fin.  fair  to  fine  boldbrgt 
Mixed  middling  ... 
Bulbs  ... 
Finger  "... 
2|d  a 3id 
lOd  a Is 
15s  a 25s 
11s  a I4s 
9s  a 12s 
2s  9d  a 5s 
£3  a £3  108 
60s  a 80s 
40s  a 55s 
20s  a 30s 
I6s  6d  a 17a 
£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  6i  97s  6d 
110s  a 132s  6d 
35s  a 92s  6d 
100s  a 107s  6s 
£5  15s  a £7 
100s  a 147s  6d 
6us  a 80s 
5us  a 57s  0d 
Sts  a 13s 
12s 
8s  a 9s 
4s  a 6S 
20s  a 22s 
8s  a 15s 
20s  a 22s 
27s  a 32s 
23s  a 26s 
10s  a 16s 
20s  a 22s 
Fine,  cryst’ed  5 to  9 in.  133  a 22s 
Foxy  & reddish  5 to  8 in.TOs  a 16s 
Lean  & dry  to  mid.  un- 
der 6 in.  ,,,  6s  a 10s 
Low,  foxy,  inferior  and 
pickings  ,,,,06  a 8(j 
