Evening star., 1922-12-31
BALTIMORE PRODUCE.

: BALTIMORE, Md. December 80
SpeciaD.-Shippers of game to this
market are notified that the season
closes on Monday, and all shipments
arriving will he a dead loss, as the
law prohibits the sale after January
l. The live poultry market has ruled
firm all week under only moderate
receipts. and an active market kept
all desirable stock closely cleaned
up. The market closed firm at IS to
80 pound for young turkeys. 40 for
old toms and 80 for poor and crooked
breasts
Small to medium and large spring
chickens~are selling a5 and &c, leg
horns -. but poor thin stays are neg
iected at 20. Fat old hens in good
and small and leshorns 90, old
roosters doing better at Is and 16.
The market rules firmer on ducks. but
shade easier on geese. with demand
centered on fat stock, and DOOR thin
stock always hard to move and not
siranle even at sharp discounts.
ducks are bringing - to %. and 20
for small and poor. while geese are
selling at ~ TO %, with Kent Islands
bringing top quotations.
figeons and guinea fowl are steady
under fairly active demand at 80 to
80 pair for the former and 20 cents
each for young and 40 for old of the
latter The demand for dressed poul-
try will ease Off the coming week,
hence closing prices today will hardly
hold good. Choice to fancy Young
turkeys closed at so to so a pound;
fair to good. 45 to As; old toms, 40
and ~, while poor and crooked
, breasts will not bring any more than
live.
Choice young chickens selling 81
and IS: old and mixed. % and &c and
old roosters. Il and is. Ducks and
geese are bringing IS to 80. Receipts
OF strictly fresh native and nearby
keeps pace with daily offerings of
desirable stock. While the market
was easier the forepart of the week.
a better feeling prevails today, and
the market closed steady at 48 a doz-
en- for firsts and As and 46 for aver
age receipts. Seasonable native and
nearby garden truck continues in
fair demand, considering the increase
! in offerings of early southern veseta-
bles. and the market closed steady al
the following quotations:
Beets, 75 to 80 bushel: broccoli and
kale. 40 to so bushel: savory cabbage, go
to IS bushel; carrots and parsnins
SO to 65 per fow-eights basket: Mary.
land and Virginia caulif1ower, 800 to
500 barrel; celery, 500 to 700 hun
dred; horse radish. 800 to 400 bushel
onions. 2.75 to 800 per hundred
pounds and a little over half-price
for No. stock: oyster plants. 500 to
s.00a hundred: spinach. so to 10 bush
Ell. and turnips. S5 to 40 per four
eighths basket. Receipts of white DO.
tatoes continue light. with a fairly
active market for choice quality stock
. at Ito to 1.25 per hundred pounds and
80 to 66 for No. 9. Eastern shore
Maryland and Virginia McCormicks
however. will not bring over 80 to
Ito for No. 1 stock. Sweets and yams
, also in lighter receipt and the market
.. rules firm at 1.50 to $50 per barrel for
the former and 1.50 to 200 for the
latter. Bushel stock Of both sells al
65 to 90. Apple receipts continue
ample and the market rules easy al
! $50 to 500 per barrel for packed No
. 1 stock, all varieties, and zoo to 2.50
for No. 2. bushel stock selling mostly
so to 1.50 and loose. 1.40 to 165 per
/ hundred pounds and 40 to SO per four
eighth basket.