Evening star., 1923-09-23
PRODUCE MARKET.

l. BALTIMORE, Nd, September p
| Sspecia);-Receipts of desirable
| fresh-laid native and nearby eggs
| continue very light. and daily offer
| ings of this sort keep closely cleaned
up, with the price advancing cents
| a dozen over last weeks quotation
closing firm today at 30 cents.
| quite q few dealers, however, are
| turning 10 western so-called fresh
| and cold storage goods at the cheaper
| cost, and while the market rules firm
further advance in value Is not looked
| for Immediately. hence shippers are
| advised to let their stock come for
ward promptly as ample eggs have to
! be sold at a discount. For large size
young chickens and heavyweight old
| fowl there is a fairly constant de-
| mand at full quotations, but under
| sized epringers have to go to the
huckster trade at some discount. and
lightweight old fowl are hard to
| move at any price. Large springers
| are bringing 27 and 2S a pound, small
| to medium, "a to 26. while Leghorns
will not bring over % to 20.
| Old hens are selling 26 and 27, small
| to medium. Is to 25. and Leghorns. IS
| to 20. Old roosters selling fairly well
at Is and 16. Large and fat ducks
are in fairly good demand under mod
crate receipts at 81 to rs, but small
| fowl are scarce, and wanted at 80 and
SIS each for large, young, and 40 to SO
for smaller. but pigeons are plentiful
| at 20 pair
! easy under ample receipts, with de-
mand centered on No. ! graded stock
at $50 to 400 barrel and Las to 1850
| for No. Is. Sack lots, 100 pounds
bring 200 to $50, and 10 to 100 for
No. 2 stock. One-hundred- and fifty
t3.50, where of round cobblers. but long
giants have to be sold at a discount.
Market for sweets and yams has
\ better tone under lighter receipts
but demand only fair for No. stock
where 1t runs regular at $50 to 900
| ESQ for the latter. Bushel stock OF
both selling IS to leo and As bas-
kets. 25 to so.
Native and nearby garden truck
still coming in quite freely, but values
mand good at the following quota
tions: Green beans, LOO to 1.35
bushei; iimas, 1.5o to 200; beets and
| carrots. 400 to 500 hundred; cab
bage, 800 to 500 hundred, and savoy
2.75 to 3.75 hamper; corn, Is to %
bushel; eggplants. 36 to 40 basket
kale, 20 to 25 bushei; peppers, 20 tC
70 baskets for large green and red
and needles, so to SO: spinach, 40 to
so basket: squash, 25 to 80 basket
] 40 to so for ripe, while packing stock
is bringing 80 to 85 bushel.
Pumpkins made their first appear
ance this week and cleaned up rap
idly at 500 to 1900 hundred. Market
| for onions rules easy under ample
| receipts and demand lighter at 2.o(
| to 3.75 per hundred pounds. The gen
eral fruit market rules steady but
quiet and demand centered on Al
stock. Cloth-top loose-packed apples
are selling at $50 to ESQ barrel with
bushel stock bringing so to 1.25 an6
| baskets, 20 to 40. as to quality and
condition. No. 1 packed apples brins
| 400 to 500 barrel and zoo to 3.0(
for No. 2, while selected bushel stock
will bring rs to 1.50. Crab apple;
| continue IN good demand at so to 81
basket, while native and nearby
grapes sell go to 90 per AS basket
Peaches playing out, but all arriv.
ais where of good quality meet witt
ready sale at 100 to $50 bushel anC
| so to 1.25 basket. Pears are plenti.
| full at 90 to 40 basket, while water.
melons are slow sale at 20 to s5 eacf
| for selects and 10 to IL each for prime