Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-04
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, December 3.-Un-
favorable weather conditions. coupled
| with liberal receipts, has seriously af-
fected the live poultry market and
values on practically all lines show an
other decline. The weather Is entirely
too warm for shipping dressed poultry
and shippers are advised to ship live
stock, which is preferred on this market
at this time of the year.
Demand for turkeys fairly good under
| the low prices prevailing and with re-
ceipts light market holds steady for
young hens, 8 pounds and over, at ID
IL to Is pounds, at Is and Is, with
old hens and toms selling mostly at
Is and crooked breasts hard to move
! at IL and IL. Market for Spring chick
ems continues easy under a light de-
mand and the bulk of receipts consists
mostly Of ordinary rough stock, on
which values are very low. There is
a fair movement on fat, young chickens
at II and IL for Plymouth Rocks, 4
pounds and over. and 10 and IL for
Rhode Island Reds and mixed colored,
3h pounds and over, but smaller stocks,
as well as large, fat Leghorns will not
bring over and 10, and all poor, thin
fowls are neglected at and 8. Old
hens show another decline at to IL
| for stock weighing 81 pounds and over
and and 10 for Leghorns, but all
poor, light fowl, as well as old ROSTERS,
| are hard to move out at Z and 8. Young
ducks show another decline OF cent
q pound at 10 to IL for stock weighing
Az pounds and over, and smaller ducks
are not wanted at any price. A bet
and market holds steady and slightly
higher at IL to IA, with Kent Islands
bringing top prices. Market for guinea
| fowl and pigeons unchanged from last
| week at 20 to 80 each for the former
and 10 to IL pair for the latter.
Egg Prices Easier.
Weather conditions also have affected
| the egg market which rules shade
easier but despite this, values are higher
on all grades with the exception OF
| prices of 80 to 80 cents a dozen for
stock weighing IS pounds and up.
Fresh-laid nearby firsts show an ad-
vance of a cent q dozen at 80 and "a
cents and current receipts cents at
8 80 to 80. But small pullet eggs are
generally slow sale at Is to %.
Market for rabbits easy and demand
| light as the weather is entirely too
warm for any activity and values show
another decline at Its to 225 per
dozen for choice nearby stock and LOO
to LIS for fair to good. Considerable
| of the arrivals the latter part OF the
week have been dark and sticky and
| In many instances unsaleable.
While the market for white potatoes
continues unsettled there Is a better
tone and with receipts only fair, values
show no change from last week at 30
to 90 per 100 pounds and las to 1.5o
per barrel for Eastern Shore Cobblers.
Sweet potatoes In better demand and
| under light receipts the market shows
| an advance at 80 to 40 hamper for
| nearby sweets. IS to 30 bushel for Wiz
ginia stock and so to 100 for barrel
stock.
Truck Receipts Moderate.
Receipts of native and nearby garden
truck only moderate, but ample for the
demand, and values show little change
| from last week at the following quota
tions: Beets, 100 to 200 hundred; car
rots, $50 to 200 hundred; onions, rs
to 80 per 100 pounds; pumpkins, 10 TO
\ Is hundred; spinach, so to IS bushel; ;
SAVOY cabbage, IS to 30 hushel, and
turnips, Is TO 20 basket.
The live cattle market continues dull
and quiet, demand being only fair and
| conferred almost entirely On first quail
| ity stock. Movement very slow on
common, ordinary in-between kinds
which constitute the bulk Of arrivals
on the wharves Quotations today at
Light Street Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound, 61a
to 7; common to medium, 3la to 6.
Bulls, as to quality, 2 to 4. Cows,
choice to fancy, to S; common to fair.
10 to 3. Oxen, as to quality, 2 TO B.
Calves, veal, choice. th; large Fat. ~
to 5; large rough, 81 to 4. Common,
thin, 2l2 to 3.
Sheep, III to 2. Spring lambs.
choice, 51k to 6; fair to good, to B;
small, thin, Az to 31a. Hogs, straight,
az to 4; sows. az to 8; stays, III to
2. Live pigs, to Z; shoats, to 6.
Grain Market Close.
Wheat No. 2 red Winter. garliclky,
; spot domestic, 53h; December de-
livery, 531a; January delivery, 54h.
Corn No 2, yellow domestic, 40; cob
corn, 1.50a1.60.
Oats No. 2, white domestic. as to
weight, 251ka28; No. 3, 241aa25. Rye,
nearby, baglots. 40a45.