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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
[Aug.  I,  1895. 
MARKET  RATES  FOR  OLD  AND  NEW  PRODUCTS. 
(From  S.  Figgis  <£*  Co.’s  Fortnightly  Price  Gnrrent,  London,  3rd  July  1895)> 
EAST  INDIA. 
Bombay,  Ceylon,  Malras 
Coast  and  Zanzibar. 
ALOES,  Soootrine  ... 
Zanzibar  & Hepatic 
BARK, CINCHONA  Crown 
Red 
BEES’  WAX,  White 
Yellow 
Mauritius  & Madagascar... 
CARDAMOMS— 
AUepee 
Mangalore  ... 
Malabar 
Ceylon 
Teil  oheriy 
Mysore 
Long  Ceylon 
CASTOR  OIL, 
CHILLIES,  Zanzibar 
CINNAMON, 
QUALITY. 
IsU 
2udb 
CLOVES, 
lets 
2nd 
3rds 
4ths  & 5ths 
Cnips 
Zanzibar 
and  Pemba. 
Hood  and  tine  dry  liver., 
Common  and  good 
Renewed  
Original  stem 
Renewed  
Chips  and  shavings 
Sli.’  sof.  to  gd.  hard  brig 
Dark  to  fair 
Pair  to  fine 
Fair  to  fine  clipped 
Bold. bright,  fairto  flue... 
Clipped,  bold,  bright  fln< 
Middling,  stalky  i lean 
Good  to  fine 
Brownish 
Fair  to  fine  pmp.  clipd 
„ ,,  small 
Shelly  to  good  .. 
Seeds 
White  
Fair  and  good  pale 
Fair  to  fine  bright 
Ord’y.  and  middling  .. 
Ord'y.  to  fine  quill 
STEMS 
COCULUS  INDICUS 
COFFEE  
COLOMBO  ROOT 
CROTON  SEEDS,  sifted... 
CUTCH  
dragons  BLOOD,  Zan. 
GALLS,  Bussorah& Turkey 
Cut  A 
B & C 
Cochin  Rough 
GINGER,  Calicut, 
Bengal  Rough, 
GUM  AMMONIACUM  ... 
ANIMI,  washed  ... 
scraped., 
ARABIC  E.I.  & Aden.. 
Ghatti 
Amrad  clia. 
Madras 
ASSAFGETIDA 
KINO 
MYRRH,  picked 
Aden  sorts 
OLIBANUM,  drop.. 
pickings., 
siftings  .. 
INDIARUBBER  ... 
East  African  Ports,  Zanzi- 
bar and  .Mozambique  Coast 
Assam,  
RaDgOOn  ••• 
Madagascar,  Tamatave,  j 
Majunga  and  Nos.sibe  ( 
Bladder  Pipe 
Puiae  ...| 
Woody  and  hard 
Good  ordinary 
Fair  to  fine  bright 
Common  dull  and  mixed 
Common  to  good 
Fair  sifted 
Bold  to  fine  bold  color) 
Midding  to  fine  mid 
Low  micl  and  low  grown 
Good  to  fine  bright  sounn 
Ordinary dt  middling 
Ordinary  to  fine  fresh  ... 
Pair  to  fine  dry 
Ordinary  to  good  drop  ... 
Fair  to  fine  dark  blue  ... 
Good  white  and  green  • • 
Good  to  fine  bold 
Small  and  medium 
Common  to  fine  bold  •• 
Small  and  D’.s 
Fair  to  good 
Blocky  to  fine  clean 
Picked  fine  pale  in  sorts 
Part  yellow  & mixed  do. 
Bean  & Pea  size  ditto 
,4mber  and  red  bold 
Medium  & bold  sorts 
Good  to  fine  pale  frosted 
sifted  
Sorts,  dull  red  to  fair  ... 
Good  to  fine  paleselected 
Sorts  middling  to  good 
Good  and  fine  pale 
Reddish  to  pale  brown  ... 
Dark  to  tine  pale 
Fairto  fine  p'liky  block... 
and  drop  
Ordinary  stony  to  midlin 
Fair  to  fins  bright 
Fair  to  fine  pale 
Middling  to  good 
Fair  to  fine  white 
Reddish  to  middliug  ... 
Middling  to  good  pale  ... 
Slightly  foul  to  fine 
Red  hard  clean  ball 
White  softisb  ditto 
IJnriperoot  
Liver  and  Lamu  Ball  ... 
Sausage,  ordinaryto  fine 
" without  sticksi 
Good  to  fine  ...| 
Common  foul  & middling 
Fair  to  good  clean 
Good  tofinepiiiky&white 
Fairtogood  black 
/ good  to  fine  pale 
\ dark  to  feir 
Clean  thin  to  line  bold... 
Dark  mixed  to  fine  pa'o... 
QUOTATION, S. 
EAST  INDIl  Continued 
East  Coast  Africa.  Mala- 
QUALITY. 
bar  and  .Madras  Coast, 
quotations 
Bengal. 
£3  10b  a £5 
Kurrachee  Leaf 
G.iod  and  fine  pale 
2s  Id  a 3a 
30s  a 80s 
INDtGO  Bengal 
Re  1 part  thin 
Is  2d  a Is  lid 
2d  a 4jd 
Middling  to  fine  violet.. 
Is  6d  B.  59  6d 
Ijd  a 3d 
Kurpah 
Ordinary  to  middling  .. 
■3s  2 1 a 4s  3d 
id  a 4d 

Fair  to  good  reddish  viole 
2s  8da3s  6d 
1 1 a 41 
Ordinary  and  middling 
13  gd  a 2s  Gd 
£7  10s  a £8 
Madras  (Dry  Leaf) 
Middling  to  good 
Is  8d  a 2s  lOd 
£6  a £7 
Low  to  ordinary 
7d  als  6d 
£6  12s  6 a £7  5s 
IVORY-Elepliants’  Teeth 
60  lb  & upwards 
Soft  sound 
£5“  a £66 
Is  a 2s  6d 
over  30  & under  60  lb 
f > »» 
£48  lOs  a £61 
Is  lOd  a 2s  8d 
60  a 100  lb. 
... 
Hard  ,,  ,, 
£.35  a £42 
ls8da  2s  3d 
Scrivelloes 
... 
Soft  ,.  close  & Wile 
£22  a £35  lOs 
Is  3d  a Is  lid 
BllliarJ  Ball  Pieces 2|  1 
Sound  soft 
£80  a £97 
Is  6d  a Is  8i 
Bagatelle  Points 
Sli.  def.to  fine  sound  sofi 
£51  a £63 
9s  a Is  4d 
Cut  Points  for  B, all 8 ... 
Shaky  10  fine  solid  sd.  sf 
£65  a £78 
Is  9d  a 4s  2 1 
Mixed  Points  & Tips... 
Detective,  part  hard 
£33  a £44i 
Is  21  a Is  fid 
Cut  Hollows 
Thin  to  thick  to  sd.  sft 
£25  a £41 
Is  Id  a 2s lid 
Sea  Horse  Teeth  — ... 
Is  lid  a 2s  Id 
1 a 1 i lb. 
Straight  orked  part  close 
Is  a 3s  6d 
2Jd  a 31 
dYRABOLANES,  Bombay 
Bhimlies  I,  good  & fine 
2id  a 2Jd 
pale 
7s  9d 
2?s  a 30s 
,,  II,  fair  pickings 
3s  6d  a 4s  3d 
24s  a 27s 
Inbbieporel,  good  & fine 
3^d  a Is  4d 
pale 
Gs  a 7s 
Sid  a Is  3d 
,,  If,  fair  rejections 
3s  6d  a 4s  Gd 
"id  a is 
Vingorlas.  good  and  fine 
Is  a 5s  6d 
7d  a fd 
Madras,  Upper  Godavery 
Good  to  fine  picked 
3s  6i  a 6s  Gd 
•2id 
1 1 
tt  • • 
Comiuou  to  middling  ... 
3s  3d  a 4s  6d 
dd  a 3id 
2Jd  a 3d 
Coast 
... 
Fair  ... 
4s  4d  a 4s  Gd 
Pickuif^ii 
Burnt  and  defective  ... 
>8  3d  a 4s 
MACE,  Bomb.iy  ... 
Dark  to  good  bold  pale  .. 
Is  Gd  a 2s 
Id 
W’doom.darktoline  bold 
4d  a Gd 
89  a 13s 
n’UT-MEGS. 
» » • •• 
Go’s  a 81’a 
Is  lid  a 2s  lOd 
108s  a 115s 
90’s  a 125’s 
Is  3d  a IB  lod 
lOls  a 117s 
s'UX  VOMICA 
Fair  to  good  boll  fresh 
63  a 9s 
93s  a 100s 
II  L.  CIN.VA.MON 
Good  heavy 
tjd  a Is  6d 
lOs  a 2Js 
CrniONELLIC 
Bright  & good  flavour... 
id  a Id 
7s  a 3s 
LE.MONGRASS  ... 
1 » » » • » 
Mid.  to  fine,  not  woody 
Picked  clean  flat  leaf  ... 
s Sd 
28s  a 31s 
JRCHELLAlgcyloa  ... 
WEED 
Us  a Ifia 
20s  a 32s 
12s  a 18s 
2 IS  a 50s 
Wiry  
22s  a 32s 
17s  a 50s 
PEPPER— 
35s  a 40s 
Malabar,  Black  sifted  ... 
Fair  to  bold  heavy 
2jd  a 2jd 
(57s  a 76s  6d 
Alleppee  & Cochin 
,,  good  „ 
13d  a 2Jd 
dOs  a fiSs 
Tellicherry,  Black 
..  uom. 
3jl 
34s  a 36s 
PLUMBAGO,  Lump 
Fair  to  fine  bright  bold 
16S  a 16s 
32s  a 33s 
-Middling  to  gool  small 
lOs  a 13s 
22s  61  a 23s 
Chips 
Dull  to  line  bright 
Is  6s  a 8s  Gd 
20s  a 50s 
Dust 
Ordinary  to  fine  bright... 
2s  a 6s 
£9  a £11  lOs 
{ED  WOOD 
Fair  and  fine  bold 
£3  Ids  a £4 
£8  lOsa  £S15s 
3AFFLOWER,  Bengal 
Good  to  liiiepiiiky  nominal 
95s  a lOOs 
£4  a £7  lOs 
Ordinary  to  fair 
70s  a 80s 
£5  a £7 
Inferior  and  pickings  ... 
30s  a 80s 
£4  a £7 
SANDAb  WOOD, 
Logs 
Fair  to  good  flavour  ... 
£30  a £60 
Chips.. 
Inferior  to  fine 
£4  a £8 
lOs  a 42b  C'i 
4EEDLAC 
Ordinary  to  fine  bright 
.30s  a lOs 
30^  a 37j*  6«1 
sENNA,  Tinnevelly 
Good  to  fine  bold  green 
Gd  a 81 
12s  6 1 a 45s 
Fair  middling  ■lediuiu 
3d  a 6H 
23s  a 3os 
Ocuiimou  ciarK  and  small 
jd  a 2d 
ins  a 4''S 
Bombav 
Ordiuar . to  good 
Id  a 2d 
2ns  a :i‘is 
SHELLS,  .M.-o’-i 
) 
EGYPriAN— bold  clean  .. 
30s  a 55s 
2Js  a 33s 
medium  thin  and  stout 
70s  a 77s  Gd 
chicken,  pare  oyners 
i 6(1  <\  7 7s  6d 
bs  a 100s 
large 
Bombay — poor  tofinetlm 
>7s  6ti  a 6 .is  6d 
10s  a 43s 
medium  part  stout 
cle  III  part  good  coloi 
i'.3s  a 90s 
£25  -a  £30 
cliickeii  p irt  stout 
35s  a 90s 
£5  a £7 
oyster  & broken  pcs 
tt  *» 
77s  Gd  a 8 ‘s  6d 
G3s  a 7os 
Mussel 
.. 
medium  and  bold  sorts 
40s  a 50s 
30s  a 55s 
small  and  medium  sorts 
18s  a 34S 
17s  a 25b 
Lingah  Ceylon  . 
Tbinaud  good  stout  sorts 
9s  a 20s 
8s  a 14s 
TA.MARINDS 
.. 
Mid.  tofineblackiiotstoiiy 
9s  a lls 
9s  a 13 1 
Stony  aud  inferior 
4s  a Gs 
2s  Id  a 2s  fid 
TORTOISE-SHELL 
Soris.good  mottle,  he  ivy 
28s  a 38s 
is  Sd  a 2s  2d 
Zanzibar  and  Bombay 
Pickings  thin  to  heavy... 
9s  Gd  a 21s  61 
lOd  a Is  4d 
TURMERIC,  Bengal  ... 
Leanisli  to  tine  plump 
is  8.1  a 2s  2id 
finger  ... 
Is  Gd  alia  6d 
Is  3d  a 2s 
Madras  ... 
Fin.  fair  to  fine  bold  brgt 
Os  6d  a 12s  Gd 
2s  2d  a 2s  5d 
» 
Mixed  middling 
Os 
Is  7d  a 2s 
>1 
Bulbs  ...  
)a  9d  a lOs 
9d  a Is  fid 
Cochin 
'■iuger  ...  
Is  a lls 
Is  Gd  a 2s  21 
VA.NILLOES, 
Fine,  cryst’ed  5 to  9 in. 
2s  1 d a 2s  fid 
Bourbon, 
Ists  ... 
Gs  a 23s 
li  6(1  a li  9d 
Mauritius, 
2iids... 
e'oxy  ik  redd  sli  fi  to  8 in,  I 
2s  a 18s 
Is  8d  a 2s  Gd 
Seychelles, 
3rd8... 
Lean  & dry  to  mid,  uu- 
9J  a Is  4d 
der  G in.  ...  1 
a a 10s 
Is  Gd  a 2s  0 1 
Madagnscar, 
4ths.,. 
Low,  foxy,  inferior  and 
Id  a la  2d 
pickings  S 
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