224 
THF TROPJCAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[September i, 1890, 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
f From Lewis <b Peat's London Price Current, 14th August, 1890.) 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES’ WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK-Crown 
per lb. 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellicherry 
CINNAMON 
Mangalore 
Long Ceylon 
lets 
2nd3 
3rds 
4ths 
I Slightly softish to good 
\ hard bright 
Do. drossy &dark ditto... 
Renewed ... 
Medium to fine Quill ... 
spoke shavings 
Branch 
Renewed 
Medium to good Quill... 
Spoke shavings 
Branch 
Twig 
Clipped, bold, bright, fine 
Middling, stalky & lean 
Fair to tine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &fine, washed, bgt 
Middling to good 
Ord. to fine pale luill .. 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
COFFEE CeylonPlantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COIR ROPE,Ceylon&Cochin 
FIBRE, Brush 
Stuffing .. 
COIR YARN, Ceylon 
Cochin 
Do 
COLOMBO ROO'T, sifted... 
CROTON SEEDS, sifted ... 
GINGER, Cochin, Cut 
Rough 
gum ARABIC, Madras... 
NUX VOMICA 
MYRABOLANES Pale, 
Pickings 
OIL, CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
lemon grass 
ORCHELLA WEED 
PEPPER,Malabar,blk.3ifted 
Alleppee & Cochin ,, 
Tellicherry, White 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
Chips 
dust 
redwood — 
8APAN WOOD 
SANDALWOOD, lo§s 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelly 
TURMERIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VANILLOES,Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lets 
2nds 
3rds 
Atbs 
from BOMBAY 
and ZANZIBAR. 
QUALITY. 
Woody and hard 
Fair to fine plant 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium 
Triage to ordinary 
Bold to fine bold colory ... 
Middling to tine mid. ... 
Low mid. andLow grown 
Smalls 
Good ordinary 
Small to bold 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium to fine 
Small 
Good to fine ordinary ... 
Mid.coarse tofine straight 
Ord. to fine long straight 
Coarse to fine 
Ordinary to superior 
Ordinary to fine ... 
Roping fair to good 
Middling wormy to fine 
Fair to tine fresh... 
Good to fine bold... 
Small and medium 
Fair to tine bold ... 
Small 
Dark to fine pale 
Fair to fine bold fresh 
Small ordinary and fair 
Good to fine picked 
Common to middling 
Fair Coast 
Burnt and defective 
Fair to fine heavy 
Bright & good flavour 
Mid. to fine, not woody 
Fair to bold heavy 
,, good ,, 
QUOTAT^^'’^S. 
£7 a £8 15s 
95s a 115s 
3d a Is 
4d a 9d 
2d a 9d 
Id a 3d 
2d a Is 
4d a 9d 
2d a 5d 
Id a 3d 
Id a IJd 
Is 8d a 3s 
lOd a Is 6d 
Is 4d a 3s 4d 
Is 3d a 2s 3d 
9d a Is 3d 
Is 6d a 2s 8d 
fid a 2s 
Tjd a ls7d 
7d a Is 4d 
fid a Is 2d 
5Jd a lid 
2^d a ?id 
95s a 105.S 
80s a 90s 
fiOs a 70s 
106s a llOs 
102s a 105s 
98s a 102s 
97s a 101s 
92s a 98s 
85s a 93s 
105s a 1153 
lOOs a 105s 
93s a 98s 
92s a 98s 
£14 a £20 15s 
£15 5s a £28 
£5 a £18 
£13 a £30 
£12 a £36 
£12 a £15 10s 
14s a 25s 
lOs a 15s 
50s a 65s 
26s a 38s 6d 
20s a 25s 
14s a 18s fid 
15s a 55s 
9s a 11s 
fis a 8s fid 
lOsa lOs 9d 
8s a 8s 9d 
fis 9d a 9s 
4s 9d a fis 3d 
Is a 2s 6d 
|d a |d 
lid a Ifd 
20s a 33s 
a 5jd 
Is Ifd a Is 2|d 
15s a 19s 
lls a 14s 
9s a' 12s 
5s a 9s 
£4 lOs a £4 15s 
Fair to fine bright bold... 
Middling to good small... 
Slight foul to fine bright 
Ordinary to fine bright ... 
Fair and fine bold 
iVIiddling coated to good £d u £8 
Fair to good flavor ...|£30a£58 
Inferior to fine ^£9 a £30 
Good to fine bold green... 3d a 8d 
Fair middling medium... 2d a 4d 
Common dark and small Id a 2d 
Finger fair to fine bold 13s a 17s 
Mixed middling [bright Us a 15s 
Bulbs ,10s a 12s 
Finger ,10s a lls 
Fine crystalisedfi a 9iuch|lfis a 23s 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 8 ,, ,13s a 18s 
J Lean & dryto middling 
\ under 6 inches ...'8s a lls 
Low, foxy, inferior and | 
[pickings 3s a 7s 
FROM BOMBAY’^ 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS, 
ALOE8 Soccotrine ... Good and fine dry ...'£4 a £7 
2aIizlbBT & Hepatic... Common and good ...j403a£6 5s 
cHlLLlEfa. Zuiwibar ... Fair to fine bright „. 32saa368 
" jOrdinary and middling,,, 28s a 31s 
CLOVES, Zanzibar ( 
and Pemba, per lb i 
Stems... 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah i 
& Turkey ^ cwt. j 
[cwt. 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, ^ cwt. 
Good and fine bright .,.j5fda5^-d 
Common dull to fair ... 43d a 5|d 
Common to good ...I Ifd a l|d 
Fair ... 8s fid a 10s 
Fair to fine dark blue ... 52s fid a 57s f 
scraped... 
ARABIC E.I. & Aden . 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad clia 
ASSAFCETIDA, per 
cwt. 
KINO, per cwt. 
MYRRH, picked ,, 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANUM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings... 
siftings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & Saus 
Good white and green... 
Blocky to fine clean 
Picked fine pale in sorts, 
part yellow and mixed 
Bean & Pea size ditto ... 
amber and red bold 
Medium & bold sorts ... 
Sorts 
Sorts to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown ... 
Clean fair to fine 
Slightly stony and foul ... 
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 
flue, 1 red hard 
age ; white softish 
unripe root 
liver 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, Ists per lb 
2nds „ .. 
3rds 
INDIARUBBER Assam, per 
lb. 
Rangoon ... 
Madagascar 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
FROM 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. 
ARROWROOT Natal per Ih 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS 
CAMPHOR, China, f cwt. 
Japan 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. 
Block [per lb. 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra... 
Reboiled. 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb... 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
40s a 50s 
203 a 50s 
£12 a £13 lOi 
£8 a £11 
£5 a £8 lOs 
£8 a £11 
£4 a £7 
32s a 75s 
20s a 70s 
50s a 65s 
25s a 45s 
26s a 38s 
16s a 25s 
25s a 30s 
£5 a £6 lOs 
72s fid a 80Si 
35s a 55s 
25s a 34s 
12s a 2Us 
lOsa 15s 
2s a 2s 6f d 
Is 6d a 2s 
Is a Is lid 
Is 3d a 2s 3d 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Brown and brownish 
Good to fine 
Common foul and mixed 
Fair to good clean 
Good to fine pinky & white 
Fair to good black 
Good to fine pinky 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings ... 
Mid.to finefilactoot stony 
Stony and inferior ... 
4d a 4jd 
3|d a 3|d 
3|d a 3fd 
;2s a 2s fid 
9d a Is lOdi 
2s a 2s 4d 
2s fid a 3s 
2s a 2s 4d 
60s a 70s 
40s a 60s 
15s a 25s 
lOs a 12s 6d 
4s a 6s 
Fair dry to fine bright ... 
Common & middling soft 
Fair to fine 
Middling to fine 
E.HUBARB, Sun dried, per 
lb. 
High dried ... 
SAGO, pearl, large, ^ cwt. 
medium ,, 
small 
Flour [per lb 
TAPIOCA, Penang F lake 
Singapore .„ 
Flour 
Pearl 
Good, pure, & dry white 
»» ,t pink 
Ordinary to fine free ... 
Pressed 
Good 
Fine clean Banj & Maca" 
Barky to fair [sar 
Common to fine clean 
Good to fine clean 
Inferior and barky 
57’s a 80’s, garbled 
83’s a 95’s 
lOO’s a 160’s 
Pale reddish to fine pale 
Ordinary to fair 
Chips and dark 
Good to tine sound 
Darkordinary & middling 
Good to fine 
22s fid a 248 i 
12s a 2Is 
hone here 
2d a 3jd 
I- 160s 
38s a 41s 
nomiwl 
27s 3d 
3s fid a 4s 64 1 
2s a 3s 4d 
4d a 2s I 
Is lOd a 2s9<l 
Is 4d a Is 9(1 
2s lOd a 4s 
2s 8d a 2s 96 
Is fid a 2s lif. 
2s fid a 2s lOi 
2s Id a 2s 4d 
Is fid a 2s 
Is 3d a 3s 2i 
8d a Is 3d 
9d a Is Id 
Dark, rough & middling 3d a 7d 
Fair to fine ...Il 7 s a 18s 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
Bullet, per owt. 
Medium 
Seed 
15s a 17s fid 
10s fid a 13s 
8s a 12s 
2da 2fd , 
2d a 2f d , 
Ifd a 2|d 
lOs a I6s 
218 aSlsedl 
1<8 a 171 
