Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md. July 1S-The
general live poultry market continued
steady with decidedly frmer tone for
/ large mixed. colored Spring chickens,
| 2l2 pounds and over, and medium TO
large, fat old hens, pounds and over.
and all such arrivals meet with ready
sale at top values. Too many small
Springers are being shipped. especially
/ Leghorns, which are not so desirable
| and move slow. while bareback chick
ems are not wanted and have to be sold
at discounts. Mixed colored Springcrs,
pig pounds and over. in light receipt
and good demand at 80 cents a pound,
! with 2 to 2l2 Founders bringing 28a30,
but smaller Springers will not bring
over 24a26, with Leghorns selling most
| ly 2oa25 as to size and quality.
Medium to large old hens. 4 pounds
I and over, keep pretty we'll cleaned up
at 2la24. but smaller fowl moves slow
| at 18a20 and Leghorns will not bring
! over 15al6. Poor. thin old hens are
hard to move at l2al3 while old roost-
ers are in ample supply for the demand
which Is limited at 12al5. The wealth
er continues too warm for any activity
! in ducks and the market Is easy at
18a22 for stock weighing 4 pounds and
| over. with smaller ducks neglected at
15al7. Pigeons In liberal receipt and
| demand slow at 20a25 a pair for both
young and old.
Egg Prices.
There being no trading on the egg
exchange market conditions and prices
are hard TO arrive at with tendency
steady to firmer on fresh-laid stock.
Business confined entirely to street
| sales and prices are a shade higher
than last week. but it takes we'll graded,
| fresh-laid stock to bring top values Of
2la23 a dozen. A large percentage of
the arrivals are showing considerable
loss under the candle and this class Of
| stock is slow to find favor even at cur
rent receipt prices OF l8al9.
New potatoes are in liberal receipt
and the market shows a decline at 75a
200 per barrel, but Virginia Cobblers
will not bring over 1.50a1.75 and all
ungraded, mixed stock. as we'll as No
Is, generally slow szte at 75a1.00
Native and nearby garden truck con-
tinues in liberal receipt and market is
easier on most lines, there being little
activity to the demand and prices are
generally in buyers favor at the fol-
lowing quotations:
Stringless green beans, so to rs bush
Ell: stringless wax beans. las bushel:
beets, 100 to 125 hundred: cabbage.
20 to 80 hamper; carrots, 200 and 100
hundred: sugar corn. Is to 80 dozen;
field corn, IL to 20 dozen: cucumbers.
IS to 20 hamper eggplantS, $50
hamper; onions, $50 to LIS per 100
pounds: squash. 10 to 20 basket, and
tomatoes, IS to 1.25 hamper.
Five Stock Market.
Weather conditions are against an
active market for live cattle, demand
being slow and centered principally on
first quality stock Most of the arrivals,
however, are Of poor under grades,
which are slow sale at inside prices.
Quotations today at Light street
wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound, 8
to 7: common to medium. to 5: bulls,
as to quality. to 5; cows. choice to
fancy. 4 to 5: common to fair. to 3:
oxen. as to quality, to 3; calves, veal,
choice, to 8l2; large. fat. 7 to IA;
large. rough. Sig to s; thin, to S;
rough and common. to 5.
Sheep, Spring lambs, choice. 7l2 to
8: fair to good, to Z; small. thin,
4 to S.
Hogs. straight, 7 to 8; sows, S to 6;
Live pigs, is to 10; shoats, IL to a.
Grain Prices.
Closing grain quotatlons-WneaC. NO.
red Winter export, no quotations;
No. 2 red Winter garlicky spot domes-
tic. Sc; July delivery, so; August de-
livery, 5012.
sales: Cargoes on grade, No. 2 red
| Winter garlicky. 5l12; No. 3. 491a: No.
4. 471s: No. 5, ASH. Corn. No. Q yellow
domestic, "a; cob corn, 3.25a3.50 per
barrel. Oats. No. white domestic, 36a
3d.: No. white domestic, 35a36.
Rye, nearby, 45a5O.