Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
Baltimore Markets
specisl pispatch to The star.

/ OA1ENNNA
BALTIMORE, Md, March 22.-The
live poultry market holds steady to firm
on all lines, especially young chickens
which are in extremely light receipt
and some of the lines, mostly small
broiler chickens, will bring a premium
over quotations. Active season for tur-
keys is about over, but market holds
steady under light receipts and a good
demand for medium sized fat stock, hen
turkeys preferred. at 80 to 40 cents a
pound and young gobblerS "a and 35
but old toms continue slow sale at q
and 20. Smooth. fat young chickens are
bringing IS and SO and young rooSters
80 and "a, with mixed colored and Leg
horn broilers IL to 2 pounds scarce
and wanted at 38 to 40, but all poor
thin stock, as well as stays, move slow
at % to IS. Market for old hens has
taken on firmer tone, especially since
the drop in price the first part of the
week, and values are holding steady at
IS to % for stock weighing 312 pounds
and over, but all poor and thin fowl is
neglected at 20. CaponS are in light re-
ceipt and, under good and constant
demand for fat birds, the market is very
firm at 80 to SO. but old ROSTERS will
not bring over II TO 20. Demand for
large fat ducks, four pound and over,
fairly good at % to &c. but small and
poor ducks move slow at II and Is.
Market for guinea fowl and pigeons
holds steady and q shade higher at so
to rs each for the former and 80 to IS
pair for both young and old OF the
latter.
Egg Prices.
and nearby points, the egg market holds
steady to firmer, and strictly fresh
firsts show an advance of a cent a
dozen over last week. Some storing has
been noted this week, and all desirable
stock meets with ready sale, but offer
ings of doubtful quality are slow sale
even at sharp discounts. The market
closed today at rs cents a dozen. for
native and nearby firstS, with hennery
white firsts bringing a premium of l to
2 cents a dozen. Duck eggs are in more
liberal receipt, especially from the
South, but market holds steady on
nearby stock at 40 cents a dozen.
White potatoes continue in liberal re-
ceipt and with the demand only fair.
Market is dull and shade lower, at
225 to $50 per hundred pounds for
No. / stock, with round stock bringing
top prices, but ungraded potatoes will
not bring over 2.25 to 2.40. Sweet po-
tatoes and vans in light receipt and,
under a fairly good demand, market
holds steady at $50 to 800 barrel, but
ungraded as well as overlarge stock
moves slow at 400 to 2.25.
Native and nearby garden truck in
light receipt and with good, active
demand. Prices are higher on most
lines, especially on blue kale and fancy
turnips, at the following quotations:
Kale, IS to LOO buShel; onions, $50 to
Its per hundred for green; oyster
plants, 800 to 500 hundred; parsnips,
40 to so bushel; spinach, 100 to lbs
bushel, and turnipS, 40 to rs hamper.
Live Stock Market.
The live cattle market continues
steady. but it takes good prime stock to
bring top values, the demand being CEN
tered on cattle of flrst-quality receipts,
which are very light, both on the
wharves and at the stockyards. Too
shipped, and this sort of stock is not
only hard to move, but tends to lower
the value of the better class of stock.
Quotations today at Light Street
Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, per pound,
II to IL; common to medium to 10.
Bulls, as to quality, to 8. Cows,
choice to fancy, to 8; common to fair,
to 6. Oxen. as to quality, 6 to 8.
Calves, veal, choice, 10 to 1912; large,
fat, IL to ID; large, rough, 10 to II;
thin. to 8; rough and common, to Z.
Sheep, choice, to 6; old bucks, to 4.
Fall lambs, fancy, IL; choice, 10 to IL.
Hogs, straight, Sows, to 9; live pigs,
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Closing grain quotations: Wheat, No.
2 red Winter export, 1.06ss; No. 2 red
Winter, garlicky. spot, 1.07%; March
delivery, 1.07%. Corn, No. yellow do
nestle, spot, 95a96; cob corn, 4.65a4.75
per barrel. Oats, white domestic, spot
No. 2, 254a2.55; No. 8 white domestic,
spot, 53a5324. Rye, nearby, 80a85.