Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10
Baltimore Markets


The market for new potatoes has
ruled easy this week under fair
receipt and demand easily satisfied,
but conferred on well graded stock.
while small potatoes are slow sale
and culls are not wanted at any price.
Season for old potatoes over and
shipment of anything but seed pota-
toes not advisable. Eastern Shore
and Virginia potatoes are bringing
$50 to 400 per barrel for No. l
stock, and $50 to 200 for No. 2s.
while bushel hampers are selling $50,
but No. 2 stock is not wanted and
| 1t is more question Of buyer than
price.
| Nearby tomatoes made their first
| appearance of the season and SOLD
readily at 800 to 400 per l4quart
basket, while ripe Virginia tomatoes
are bringing 400 to 800 crate, and
green, 800 to 400. Corn is also
new line on the market with nearby
stock selling at 40 and so dozen, but
! Virginia corn will not bring over 10
| TO %.
Other native and nearby vegetables
| ut the following quotations: Aspara-
gus. 2.40 to $50 dozen, for choice to
I fancy green, and 1.25 to $50 for culls,
while partly white grass sells mostly
| 1.25 to ESQ as to quality and cOndi-
| ton; stringless green beans, l.50 to
| 1.75 bushel. and 100 to $50 for WaXed;
beets, 200 and 800 hundred: cab
bage. 800 to 500 hundred: carrots,
800 and 400 hundred; cucumbers. %
to 100 basket; lettuce. 80 to 100
bushel; onions. IS to 1925; bushel
peas, les to 1.75 bushel; spinach. 40
to 1 90; bushel, and squash. 90 to -
| basket.
| With the exception of red rasp-
berries, which are scarce and wanted,
market for berries rules easy under
ample receipts. Blackberries are
selling 8 to II quart, and black rasp-
berries. 1914 to Is quart, with red
bringing 10 to Is pint; sweet cherries
in good demand at II to Is pound,
and to 10 for sour and wax, but
small fruit is slow sale at and 5.
Plums in fair demand at to 10
quart, while early June apples are
fairly active at 100 to 200 bushel
! Closing grain quotations: Wheat,
No. ,, red Winter spot, 1874; No.
=. red Winter garlicky. spot. LA:
corn. domestic, No. >, 111ai.12; cob
corn, 500 per barrel.
| Oats, No. 2, white, 59a5912; No. 3,
white, 56a56ia; rye. nearby, 1.05a
| ITO.
Live Poultry Quotations.
| The general live poultry market
continues firm under an active de-
mand for choice fat stock, while small
understood chickens generally are
slow sale at inside values. Spring
| chickens, Pa pounds and over. meet
with ready sale at Sc to SO pound, and
% to So for smaller. Leghorns, how
ever. will not command these prices
and sell mostly 20 to %. as to quality
and condition. Shipment of fowl
weighing less than pounds not adj
visable. Demand for old hens has
shown an increase this week and the
market rules firmer with values
higher at % to 81 for fowl weighing
81 pounds and up. but lighter fowl
and Leghorns are slow sale at Is to
20. Old rooSters in better demand
and market higher at II to Is for
mixed colored and Legforns. Demand
for ducks has eased off to some ex
tent, but fat stock, pounds and over
selling fairly well at "a and %, and
20 to % for smaller fowl. but old
ducks are slow sale at IS to 20
Pigeons continue in fair demand at
20 to 80 pair for both young and
old.
Egg Receipts Light.
Receipts of native and nearby eggs
of desirable quality have been light
and the market holds steady with
only fair demand prevailing. Buyers
are very, critical as to quality during
the Summer season and it takes
strictly flrSt-clas stock to draw top
values, consequently, eggs should be
shipped regularly and not held in the
country. The market closed today at
23s4 cents a dozen for f1rsts in fras
| cases.
| Cattle Market Steady.
With the exception of Spring lambs,
which are in ample receipt, the gen.
eral live cattle market rules steady
with little change on top-grade stock,
receipts Of this sort being moderate
and demand good.
Cattle arriving on the wharves large