Evening star., 1924-10-05
Absorbed by Illinois, Merchants
BALTIMORE PRODUCE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE Md, October 4-De-
spite the fact that receipts of native
and nearby eggs showed an increa Sc
this week totaling 6,42J crates, the
market continues firm, and closed to-
day at 46 cents a dozen for firsts in
free cases, an advance of cents over
last week. The demand is keeping
pace with supplies. and all offerings
showing quality meet with ready sale
Prompt shipments are advisable while
the market is favorable. but all eggs
should be carefully graded to realize
| best results, az held stock will not
! bring top quotations and has TO be
sold al a discount.
The general live poultry mark ct
rules steady and has kept fairly well
cleaned up this week. For heavy.
fat old hens. Az pounds and over.
and springerS weighing 2i2 pounds
and over, there is good and con-
Stant demand, with no surplus of this
sort in the daily receipts. but small
old hens and common to ordinary
springers are in ample supply and
net wanted by the trade. Large
springcrs bring o6a27 pound and
small to medium. 23a2J. with Leghorn
springers selling from . to cents
pound under as to quality and cond-
tion. Fat old hens will bring the
same as large springers, medium.
20a25. but small and poor hens and
Leghorns are slow sale a 11a1S. Old
roosterS continue plentiful at 15aI6
Demand for ducks has shown an i'm
provement this week and values rule
slightly higher for fat stock at 2Oa22,
but small and poor ducks are not
wanted at 16alS. Pigeons continue
easy at 20a25 a pair for both young
and old. Guinea fowl in light re-
ceipt and under a good demand hold
steady at - each for large young
and 30 each for small With the ex-
ception of apples the season for
native and nearby green fruit is
drawing to a close and prices gener-
ally are in buyers favor on most
lines
Peaches are selling at 30 to 100
per basket and 1.5O to 2.25 per bushel
while Sickle pears bring 60 to 100
per basket and 2S to so for common
varieties. ounces made their ap-
pearance this week and are meeting
with fairly good sale at 60 to 75 bas-
ket and LIS to 2.15 buShel. Damsons
sell mostly 20 and % per 4-quart
basket. Apples continue in ample re-
ceipt and it takes choice to fancy
fruit to bring top values of 800 to
500 barrel while No. . stock sells
mostly half price. Common native
and nearby grapes are still in good
demand at 50 to 100 per four-eighth
basket. New white potatoes are in
fairly good demand, but stock must
be well graded to bring top values
of LIS to 1.50 per 100 pounds and zoo
to 2.25 per 150-pound sacks or bar
rels. while No. . potatoes sell at
slightly less than half price and No
IS are not wanted at any price De-
mand continues good for sweet pota-
toes and yamS where they run regu-
lar No. l stock, but shipments from
certain sections being black and
mixed with ordinary No. stock
which has to be sold at inside quo
tationS to move out. Sweets bring
2.73 to $50 a barrel and vans 800 to
$50, with No. stock of both selling
a 1.50 and 200
Native and nearby garden truck
continues in fairly good demand, and
prices hold steady, except on toma-
toes and beans, at the following quo
tatlons: Stringless green beans. LOO
and 1.25 bushel; lima beans, 200 and
800 buShel: beets and carrots, 800 to
900 hundred: broccoli, 80 and so. BUSH
ell: cabbage. 200 to 500 hundred;
corn. l5 to so dozen for sugar and
10 to ID for field; eggplants, 80 to
Lilo basket; onions, $50 and 200 per
100 pounds: peppers, 40 and SO basket
for green and so to 75 for red; pump
kins, 500 to 1900 hundred; spinach,
SO to 90 bushel; tomatoes, 40 to SIS
basket for sound, ripe, and IS to 11O
per bushel for packing stock; turnfps
so to 65 basket, and Savoy cabbage,
so to IS bushel