746 
THE TROPIOAL AQRICULTURtST 
[April r, i8$i, 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From 3, Figgis <& Go's Fortnightly PrioA Current, Lowlon, February 26th. , 1891.) 
EAST INDIA. 
Bombay, Ceylon, Madras 
Coast and Zanzibar. 
ALOES, Soootrine ... . . 
Zanzibar & Hepatic 
BABK, CINCHONA Crown 
QUALITY. 
EAST INM 4 Continued i 
QUOTATIONS. (East Coast Africa. Mala-I 
bar and Madras Coast, ' 
Bengal. ! 
Bed, 
BEES’ WAX, E.I., White 
Yellow ... 
Mauritius & Madaga.scar... 
CABDAMOMS— 
Allepee 
Mangalore 
Malao.ar 
Ceylon. Malabar sort 
Good and fine dry 
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 good 
Alleppee and 
Mysore sort 
Long wild Ceylon.. 
CASTOR OIL, ists 
2nds 
3rds 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar 
CINNAMON, Ists 
Sods 
I 3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
CLOVES, Zanzibar 
and Pemba. 
COCULUS INDICUS . 
COLOMBO BOOT... 
CROTON SEEDS, sifted. 
CUTCH 
DRAGONS BLOOD. 
Zanzibar 
GALLS, Bussorah & 
Turkey 
Fair to fine clipped 
Bold, bright, fairto fine.. 
Good to fine plump, cliped 
Fair to good bold bleached 
,, „ medium ,, 
,, ,, small 
Small to bold brown 
Fair to good bold 
,, medium 
„ small 
Middling to good 
White 
Fair and good pale 
Brown and brownish 
Fair to fine bright 
Ord’y. and middling 
Ord’y. to fine pale quill 
quality. 
iQUOTATIONS. 
INDIGO 
Bengal 
Kui-psh 
Woody and hard ... 
Fair to fine plant 
Fair to fine bright 
Common dull and mixed 
Common to good 
Fair sifted 
Good to fine bright sound 
Ordinary & midling 
Fair to fine fresh 
Fair to fine dry 
Ordinary to good drop .. 
Fair to find dark blue .. 
Good white and green .. 
Good to fine bold 
Small and medium 
Fair to fine bold 
Small and medium 
Pair 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 60s a 80s 
Sorts, dull red to fair ... 3.5s a 6is 
Good to fine pale selected 45s a .5.5s 
Sorts middling to good... 23s a 33s 
Good and fine pale ... 60s a loos 
Reddish to pale brown ... 25s a 50s 
Dark to fine pale ... 1.5s a 55s 
Fair to fine pinky block 
and drop 
Ordinary stony to midling 
KINO iFair to fine bright 
MYRRH, picked iFair to fine pale 
Aden sorts'Middling to good 
GINGER, Ooohin, Cut 
Rough... 
Bengal, Rough 
GUM AMMONIACUM .. 
ANIMI, washed ,. 
scraped... 
ARABIC E.I. & Aden ., 
Ghatti ... 
Amrad clia. 
Madras 
ASSAFCETIDA 
's a 2s 2d 
Is 6d a 3s 
2s a as 6d 
2s 6d a 38 
Is 6d a 2s 
Is 1 Is 6d 
Is a Is 6d 
2s fi 1 a .3s 9'1 
Is 6d a Is lOd 
Is a Is 4d 
fid a 2s 2d 
4id a 4id 
.3|d a S^d 
•3|l a 3|d 
75s a 85s 
60s a 70s 
7jd a 1s 2d 
7d a Is 
6|d a lOd 
5Jd a 7d 
2d a 6^d 
3Id a 4d 
.3id a 3|d 
|d a Id 
12s a 1.3s 
2^3 a 27s 6ii 
16s a 20s 
10s a 1.5s 
24s a 32s 6d 
50s a 90s 
2s 6d a 57s 6d 
40s a 50s 
75s a 80s 
40s a 52s 6d 
32s 6d a 42s 6d 
26s a 30s 
18s 
20s a 50s 
£12 a £14 
£10 a £12 
£5 a £7 10s 
£10 a £12 
£8 lOs a £11 
... Middliog to fine violet-,.!^® fill n 6s 
Ordinary to middling ...34fida4s3d 
... Fairto good reddish violt 
Ordinary and middling ... 
I Madras (Dry Leaf) Middling to good 
T.ow to ordinary 
rVOUY—Elephants’ Tteth- 
601b & upwards ...; Soft slightly def. to sound 
over .30 & under 80 lb,' .. „ 
40 a 100 lb. ... Hard „ 
Sorivelloes I Soft ,, ,, 
„ iHard ,, ,, 
Billiard Ball Pieees2ii3im'Sou id 
Bagatelle Points ...jS'i. def. to fine sound 
■Cut Points for Balls Shaky lo fine solid sd. 
Mixed Points & Tip 3 ...!Uvfeetive, part, hard 
Cut Hollows .. 'Thill to thick sli, def loi„„ 
sound ... ^ 
Sea Horse Teeth— | 
i a 4 J lb. I Orvd , erkd & close .strght I® 1<I a 4s 4d 
HYEABOLANES, Bombay' bhimlies I, good & fine 
1 pale 
' ,, II, fair pkkiiigs 
Jubbleporel, good & fine 
„ II. fair re 
■ jectio'is 
Vlugorlas, good and fine 
Madras, Upper Godavery Good to fine picked 
... Common to middling ... 
... Fair ... 
... Burnt and defective ... 
... Dark to good bold pale...,_ ^ _ 
W*d com. (larkto iine bold ^ , 
2s lOd a 3s 3d 
Is 6d a 2s 9d 
10s a 12s 6d 
fi® 
OIL, cinnamon”'" — I 
CITRONELLE 
LEMONGRASS 
IRCHELLA { 
WEED I 
PEPPER 
Coast 
MACE, 
NUTMEGS, 
Pickings 
Bomb ly 
64’s a 80’s 
8.3’s a 180’.i 
NUX I Cochin, Madrasi ( Fair lo i iie bold fresh 
VOMICA I and Ro nbay i Small ordinary and fair 
'■ Fair to fine heavy 
Bright & good fi'avour.. 
Mid. 10 fine, not woody' 
Picked clean flat leaf 
wiry 
i Zanzibar 
I Mozambique! 
3s a S3 7d 
2s Sd a 2s lOd 
2s 8d a 8s 3d 
Is 8d a 2s 6d 
£89 a £76 10 
£64 a £72 
£19 10ea£68 
|£30 lOn a £48 
£26 a £83 lOs 
i£7810sa£88 lOs 
‘£66 a £76 
!£55 a £73 
i.£3l a £63 10s 
1 2s a 13s 
8s a 9s 
Us 6d a 12s 6d 
8s 6d a 9s 3d 
9s Cd a lls 
Us a lls 6d 
8s fid a 9s 9d 
lus a lOs fid 
7a a 8s 9d 
2s a 3s 2d 
Is a 2s fid 
fd aid 
l^d a IJd 
20s a 26s 
lOs a 2Us 
25s a 36s 
Malabar, Black sifted .. 
Alleppee & Tellicherry 
Tellicherry, 'White 
PLUMBAGO, Lump 
Chips 
Dust 
RED WOOD 
SAFFLOWEE, Bengal 
IFair 
1o bold heavy... 'I 
good „ ... t 
4 3-16d a 4id 
Is a Is Id 
16s a 21s 
pickings... 
siftings .. 
[NDIARUBBER 
East African Ports, Zanzi- 
bar and Mozambique Coast 
Assam, 
Rangoon 
Madagascar, Tamatave, ( 
Maiunga and Nossibo ( 
isinglass orl^j 
FISH MAWS/ ‘•OOlfRe-’ 
Bladder Pipe... 
Pnrse 
Eum«h«o Lval 
OLIBANUM, drop... Fair to fine white 
Reddish to middling 
Middling to good pale 
Slightly foul to fine 
Red hard clean hall 
White soflisb ditto 
Unripe root 
Liver 
Sausage, lair to fine 
Good to fine 
Common foul & middling 9d a Is fid 
Fair to good clean ...lls lljd a 2s 2d 
Goodtofinepinky &white 2s 2d a 2s 101 
Fair to good black ...lie lOd a 2i 2d 
'good to fine pale ...13s 9d a 3s 8d 
dark to fair ... Is a 2s 6d 
Clean thin to fine bold. ..lls fid a 3s 7d 
...(Dark mixed to fine pale fi^d a Is 8d 
,., Oommou to good paid 9d fi Ss lod j 
30s a 60s 
1 6s a 25s 
35s a .37s fid 
£6 a £8 
70 f a 85s 
,30s a 45s 
22s fid a 30s 
12s a 20s 
lO.s a 15.S 
|2s 2d a 2s .5d 
Is 8d a 2.S 3'1 
Is 3d a Is lod 
lls fid 11 2s Id 
2s a, 2s Id 
Is 8d a 2s .3d 
SALTPETRE, Bengal .. 
sandal wood, Logs.. 
,. ,, Chips. 
sapan wood 
SEEDLAC 
SENNA, Tinnevellv 
Bombay 
SHELLS, M.-o’-P. 
large 
medium and largi 
small and mediutn 
chicken 
oy iter and thin . 
Mussel 
Lingah 
TAMARINDS 
TORTOISESHELL 
Zanzibar and Bombay 
i'imvtERlC,Bengal 
Madras ... 
Fair to fine bright bold 
Middling to go id small. ..Ills a 14s 
Sli’tly foul to fine bright 9s a 12s 
Ordinal y to fine bright... 4s fid a 7s fid 
Fair and fine bold ... £3 a £3 lOs 
Qood to fine pinky ... 55s a 70s 
Ordinary to fair ... 28s a 50s 
Inferior and pickings ... 15s a 25s 
Ordinary to good ... 16s fid a 17s 
Fair to fine flavo-ur ... £.35 a £60 
Inferior to fine ... £9 a £30 
Lean to good bold ... £4 a £7 
Ordinary to fine bright 23s a 70s 
rood to fine bold green... 6d a 8d 
dedium to bold green.. 4d a 6d 
Small and medium green 2d a 3d 
Common dark and small Id a IJd 
'Irdinar to good ... Id a 2jd 
Egyptian — med. to large 88s a lOOS 
small and medium. 90s a lOOs 
oyster and chicken 85s a 100s 
Bombay — fine thick 
bright fairly clean 
Cochin 
VANILLOES. 
Bourbon, 
Mauritius, 
Seychelles, 
lirdinary to fine hold 
[forts... 
'lid. tofineblk notstony 
I Itony and inferior 
'’air & fine clean heavy 
Low thin to raid, clean 
Leanish to fine plump 
finger 
Fin. fair to fine bold brgt 
Mixed middling... 
Bulbs ... 
Finger ... 
.12s 6d a 102s 6d 
90s a 102s 6d 
90s a 102s 6d 
86s a 97s 6d 
80s a 92s 6d 
24s a 55s 
3s a 10s 
10s a 12s 6d 
4s a 6s 
17s a 30s 
7s a 16s 6d 
14s a 15s 
16s a 18s 
15s a 16s 
10s a 12s 
lls a 12s 
Madagascar, 
Ists ... Fine, cryst’ed 5 to 9 in. 14s a 20s 
'2nds... Foxy & reddish .5 to 8 in. 10s a 1.5s 
3rds...|Loan & dry to mid. un- 
der 6 in. ... 7s a 10s 
4ths,„ Low, foxy, inferior and 
I pickings 3s 65 
