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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST, 
[Aug.  I,  1896, 
MARKET  RATES  FOR  OLD  AND  NE\V  PRODUCTS. 
(From  Lewis  d' Peat's  Fortnightly  Prices  Current,  London,  July  15th,  1896. J 
ALOE^,  SoKotriiie 
Ziiii/.ibar  U Hepatic 
BEES’  W’AX. 
Zanzibar  & ( White 
Bombay  I Yellow... 
Mauritius  .Sc  .'.lailatrasoBr.. 
CAMPHOK,  China 
Japan 
CARDAMOMS,  Malabar.. 
Ceylon.— My.sore 
„ Tellicherry... 
„ Long  ... 
Mangalore .. 
CASTOR  OIL,  Calcutta.. 
Madras  ... 
CRin.IES.  Zaiiziour  ... 
CINCHONA  BARK.— 
Ceylon 
CINNAMON,  Ceylon  lats 
2mls 
3rl8 
4ttis  and  5ths 
Chips 
CLOVES,  Penang 
Amboyna 
Zanzibar  \ 
and  Pemba  / 
Stems 
COOULUS  1NUICC3  ... 
COFFEE 
Ceylon  Plantation  . 
Native 
Liberian 
COCOA,  Ceylon 
C iLOMBO  ROOT 
COIR  ROPE,  Ceylon  ... 
Cochin  . . 
FIBRE,  Brush 
Cochin  ... 
Stuffing  .. 
COIR  YARN,  I eyloii  . . 
Cochin  ... 
do. 
CROTON  SEEDS,  sifted... 
CUTCH  ...  , ••• 
UINiiUK.  Bengal,  rough 
Calicut,  Cut  A 
B&C 
Cochin  Rougli... 
Japan 
QU.M  AM.MO.NI.VCU.M  ... 
ANI'H,  Zanzibar... 
Madagascar  ... 
ARABIC  K.  I.  & Aden  ... 
Ohaiti  .. 
Kurrachee  . 
Madras 
ASSAFCETIUA 
KINO 
MiKRH,  picked  ... 
Aden  sorts 
OLIBANUM,  drop 
pickings 
siftings 
ISUlARUHUJit^'  A8.sani 
Rangoon 
Borneo 
QUALITY. 
Fair  to  tine  dry 
Joiumou  to  good 
ft  sod  to  fine 
Fair 
Dark  to  good  palisli  . 
Fair  average  quality  .. 
,#  »»  ’, 
Clipped,  bold,  bright  tine 
Middling,  stalky  & lean 
Fair  to  tine  plump 
See  Is 
iiood  to  fine 
Brownish 
Shelly  to  good 
.Med  brown  to  good  bold 
Ists  and  2nds 
Ists  ami  2nds 
Dull  to  line  bright 
Ledgeriana  Chips 
Jroivn,  Renewed  . 
Org.  Stem 
Hybrid  Root 
Chip 
Ordinary  to  tine  quill . 
Woody  and  liard 
Fair  to  g od 
Dull  to  tine  bright  bold 
Dull  to  tine 
Good  and  tine  bright  . 
Common  dull  to  fair  ... 
Fair 
Fair 
Bold  to  fine  bold  colory 
.Midding  to  tine  mid 
Low  mill,  and  low  grown 
Smalls 
Good  ordinary 
Small  to  bold 
Bold  to  tine  bold 
Medium  and  fair 
Triage  to  ordinary 
Fair  to  good 
Orel.  & middling  wormy 
Ordinary  to  fair 
Ord.  to  tine  long  straight 
Ordinary  to  good  clean 
Common  to  tine 
Common  to  superior 
..  ,,  very  tine  ... 
Roping,  fair  to  good  . 
Fair  to  good 
Fair  to  tine  dry 
Fair 
Good  to  fine  bold 
Small  and  medium 
Common  to  fine  bold 
Small  and  D’s 
Unsnlit 
Sm.  blocky  to  fine  clean 
Picked  tine  pale  in  sorts 
Part  yellow  and  mixed 
Bean  and  Pea  size  ditto 
Amber  and  dk.  red  bold 
Med.  Jc  bold  glassy  sorts 
Fair  to  good  palish  ... 
..  .,  red  . . 
Ordinary  to  good  pale 
Pickings  to  fine  pale 
Good  ,and  fine  pale 
Reddish  to  pale  selected 
>ark  to  tine  pale 
Clean  fr  to  gd.  almonds 
Ord.  stony  and  blocky 
Fine  bright 
Fair  to  tine  pale 
Middling  to  good 
Good  to  tine  white  .. 
Middling  to  fair 
Low  to  good  pale 
Slightly  foul  to  tine  .. 
Good  to  tine 
Common  to  foul  & mxd. 
Fair  to  good  clean  ... 
Common  to  tine 
QUOTATIONS. 
44s  a 100s 
11s  a 70s 
e7  a .T8 
TO  a t7 
TO  5s  a T7 
T20s 
127s  6d 
Is  Id  a 2s  8d 
Is  5d  a Is  9d 
Is  8d  a 3s  7d 
2s  Dll  a 3s  2d 
Is  8d  a 2s 
Is  3d  a Is  8 1 
Is  Od  a 3s 
2s  4d  a 3s  Od 
25  d a Old 
2Jd  a 2^il 
28s  a 35s 
Id  a 3jd 
2d  a 4 ‘d 
Ud  a 3d 
2|d  a m 
lid  a 2d 
lOid  a Is  Id 
DJd  a Is 
>id  a lUd 
8id  a Did 
3d  a 33-d 
7d  a lid 
3d  a 4d 
2 l-iud  a 2id 
lid  a 2id 
id 
7s  Od  a 8s 
INDIARUBBER,  (Cont.d). 
Java,  Sing.  & Penang 
llOs  a 118s 
100s  a 103s 
D5s  a 100s 
90s  a 94s 
70s  a 80s 
72s  a 80s 
53s  a 71s 
50s  a 50s 
20s  a 50s 
12s  a 14s 
9s  a 11s 
nominal 
£10  a .T15 
€10  a .€24 
€12  a £17 
€5  a £0  10s 
€12  a £20  10s 
€12  a €34 
£11 10s  a £15 
OOs 
17.S  a 32s  Oil 
10s 
OOs  a 73s  Oil 
42s  a 5Gs  Od 
32s  Od  a 35s 
28s  a 30s 
I4s  a 17s 
I7s  a 30s  Od 
€10  7s  Gd  a £13 
€7  17/0  a£  10  lOs 
70s  a £7  12/0 
£4  5s  a £9 
90s  a 137s  Gd 
€4  8s  a £0  15s 
£5  a £7  5s 
50s  a 70s 
25s  a 75s 
G5s  a 75s 
35s  a 55s 
45s  a 05s 
40s  a 70s 
15s  a 35s 
£20  a £25 
80s  a 90s 
33s  a 05s 
35s  a OOs 
20s  a 31s 
7s  a 15s 
9s  Od  a 14s 
,1s  lod  a 2s  3jd 
3d  a Is  Od 
Is  4d  a Is  Hid 
Is  a Is  7d 
Mozambique 
Madagascar 
INDIGO,  E.I. 
.MACE,  Bombay,  & Penang 
MYRABOLANK.S,  Madras 
Bombay 
Bengal  .. 
NUTMEGS- 
Bombay  & Penang 
NUT.S,  ARECA 
NUX  VO.MICA.  Bombay 
Madras 
OIL  OF  ANISEED 
CASSIA 
LE.MONGRASS 
NUTMEG 
CINNA.MON 
CITRONELLE 
OR  II  ELLA  WEED- 
Ceyloii 
Zanzibar. 
PEPPER  (Black)— 
Alleppee  & Tellicherry 
Singapore 
Acheen  & W.  C.  Penang 
PLU.MBAGO,  lump 
chips 
dust 
SAFFLOWER 
UUALITY. 
S.ANDAL 
WOOD— 
Bombay, 
Logs 
Chips 
Madras,  Logs 
< hips 
SAPAN  WOOD,  Bombay 
Madras 
Manila 
Siam 
SEEDLAC 
SENNA,  Tinnevelly 
SHELLS,  M.  o’PEARL- 
Bombay 
Mussel 
TAMARIND.S,  Calcutta  .. 
Madras  ... 
TORTOISESHELL- 
Zanzibar  and  Bombay 
TURMERIC,  Bengal 
Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
Foul  to'  good  clean  , 
Good  to  fine  Bill 
'idinary  to  fair  Ball 
Low  .sandy  Ball 
Sausage,  fair  to  good 
Liver  and  livery  Ball 
Fr  to  tine  pinky  & white 
Fair  to  good  black 
Niggers,  low  to  good... 
Bengal- - 
Shipping  midtogd  violet 
onsumiiig  mid.  to  gd. 
Ordinary  to  mid.  good 
.Mill,  to  good  Kurpah. 
Low  to  ordinary 
.^Iid.  to  good  Madras 
Pale  reddish  to  fine  , 
Ordinary  to  fair 
Chips  and  dark 
DarK  to  tine  pale  UG  . 
Fair  Coast 
Jubblepore 
Bhimlies 
Rhajpore.  ikc. 
Calcutta 
C4’s  to  57’s 
llO’s  to  80’s 
IGO’s  to  130’s 
Ordinary  to  fair  fre.sh  . 
Ordinary  to  middling  . 
Fair  to  good  bold  fre.sh 
Small  ordinary  and  fair 
Fair  merchantable 
According  to  analysis.. 
Good  flavour  & colour.. 
Dingy  to  white 
Ordinary  to  fair  sweet.. 
Bright  A good  flavour 
QUOTATION.S 
Mid.  to  tine  not  woody 
Picked  clean  flat  leaf 
,,  wiry  Mozambique 
Fair  to  bold  heavy 
Fair  
Dull  to  tine 
Fair  to  fine  bright  bold 
-Middling  to  good  small 
Dull  to  fine  bright 
Ordinary  to  tine  bright 
Good  to  fine  pinky 
Middling  to  fair 
Inferior  and  pickings  . 
Fair  to  fine  flavour 
Fair  to  good  flavour  . . 
Inferior  to  fine 
Lean  to  good 
Good  average 
I Rough  & rooty  to  good 
i bold  smooth 
Ord.  dusty  to  gd.  soluble 
food  to  tine  bold  green 
Fair  middling  medium 
Is  3d  a 2s  3d 
2s  2d  a 2s  5il 
Is  2d  a 2s  IJd 
lOd  a Is  Id 
Is  4d  a 2s  5jd 
Is  3}d  a 2s  2id 
Is  Hid  a 2s  .5d 
Is  3d  a Is  lOd 
lOid  a Is  Old 
4s  Oil  a 5s  2d 
3s  9d  a 4s  4d 
2s  lOd  a 3s  Sd 
2s  Od  a 3s  3d 
Is  a Is  od 
Is  4d  a 2s  1 0il 
Is  Sd  a 2s  2d 
Is  2d  a Is  Od 
is 
2s  Od  a 4s  6d 
4s  3d 
3s  9d  a Os 
3s  9d  a 7s 
3s  Od  a 5s  Od 
3s  Od  a 5s  Od 
2s  lid  a 3s  2d 
Is  2d  a 2s  lOd 
9il  a Is 
8s  6d  a 12s  Od 
4s  Od  a Os 
Os  a 7s  Od 
4s  Gda  7s 
7s  3d  a 7s  Od 
4s  Sil  a Os 
m 
3id  a 4d 
4d  a Is  3d 
Is  Gd 
Common  dark  and  small  2d 
lls  a 15s 
10s  a 20s 
15s  a 17s  Od 
2jd  a 2id 
2 5-lOd 
2d  a 2^d 
15s  a 17s  Od 
3s  Od  a 13s 
Is  Od  a 8s  9d 
2s  a Os 
85s  a OOs 
80s 
OOs  a 65s 
£30  a £50 
5s  a £3 
£30  a £50 
£4  a £8 
£4  a £0  5s 
£4  a £0  nom. 
£4  10s  a £5  15s 
£0a£7 
70s  a 95s 
Od  a 8d 
2id  a 5Jd 
VANILLOES- 
M.auritius  and  I 
Bourbon  ...  / 
Seychelles 
VERMILION 
l.sts 
2nds 
3rds 
Bold  and  A’s  
l/sandB’s  
Small  
Small  to  bold 
Mid.  to  tine  bl’k  not  stony 
Stony  and  inferior 
.Selected 
Small  to  hold  iLark 
mottle  part  heavy 
Fair 
Finger  fair  to  fine  bold 
.Mixed  milling,  [bright 
Bulbs  
Finger  
Bulbs  
Gd.  crysallized  4 a 9 in. 
Foxy  & reddish  4j  a 8 „ 
Lean  and  inferior 
) Inferior  to  fine  crys- 1 
i tallized  3J  a 9 in.  / 
Fine,  pure,  bright 
£4  10sa£412se 
£4  .58  a £4  15s 
75s  a 80S 
10s  a 50s 
9s 
6s  .a  7s 
54s 
17s  a 23s 
7s  6d 
8s  a 9s  Oil 
7s  .a  8s 
Os  Od  a 7s  Od 
7s  » 7s  Od 
5s  Od  a 7s  Oil 
17s  a 32s 
lls  a 15s 
7s  a lOs 
8s  a 31s 
2s  8d  a 2s  9d 
