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140 SPICES 
Peninsula gave 200,000 kilos nutmegs and 50,000 kilos 
mace. 
West Indies. — The West Indian cultivation appeared 
first to influence the market in from 1865 to 1874, when 
10,000 kilograms of nutmegs and 3000 kilograms of 
mace were exported ; 1875 to 1885, 10, 000 kilos nutmegs 
and 3000 kilos of mace; 1885 to 1894, 100,000 kilos 
of nutmegs and 25,000 kilos of mace. The increase of 
output in the West Indies then increased steadily, so 
that though the West Indian nutmegs are less hard and 
more liable to fracture than those of the East Indies, 
they seem to be gradually ousting the former. 
Holmes, in tables given by Messrs. Evans, Gray, and 
Hood {Pharmaceutical Journal, 1909, p. 419), shows 
that the West Indian nutmegs have trebled in the last 
ten years, and the price has fallen, apparently in con- 
sequence of increased supply, to about one-third of the 
value ten years previously. 
From an article in the American journal. The 
Spice-Mill, for November 1908, p. 677, extracted by 
the editor of the Agricultural News, vol. lx, p. 84, 
we learn that though the ordinary customer in this 
country (U.S.x4..) never heard of or purchased British 
West Indian nutmegs under their name, still these 
articles are being sold to them mixed up with Singapore 
nutmegs. Owing to the small demand in the United 
States for the British West Indian nutmegs, because of 
their inferior quality, the importations are exceedingly 
light, amounting to 2000 barrels per annum. The 
nutmegs are shipped principally from Grenada, which 
island is the heaviest producer of the entire group of the 
British West Indies, to London. There they are graded 
as to size and mixed with Singapore nutmegs, then 
shipped to this market and sold as Singapore nut- 
megs. The import market value of British West 
Indian nutmegs is from 10 to 20 per cent below the 
import price of Singapore nutmegs, both as to size 
and quality. 
To this the editor of the Agricultural News adds : — 
