Evening star., 1932-08-21
Baltimore Markets

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, August 20.-The
egg market continues firm with ready
sale for all fresh-laid stock, but still
dull and draggy on anything showing
on quality and values show an increase
Of l to 2 cents dozen. There is no
surplus of strictly fresh-laid eggs, espe-
cially hennery whites, but most of the
arrivals from nearby points are of poor
quality and slow 70 find favor. the trade
generally preferring Western refrigera-
tor eggs, which show more uniform
quality and are better graded The
market closed today at % and 20 cents
dozen for hennery white firsts, s.
pounds and up to the case. 10 for firsts
and Is for current receipts.
Poultry Prices.
The live poultry market also has
taken on a firmer tone and prices on
both Spring chickens and old hens
show an advance OF a cent a pound
over last week. Receipts of choice, fat
stock generally light and this class OF
stock meets with ready sale at full quo
tations, but poor. thin chickens as well
as bare back springers are not wanted
and are hard to move even at sharp
ga pounds and over. are bringing top
prices of 10 and 20 cents q pound
mixed colored stock, 3 pounds and over
II and lS; Rhode Island Reds. 3 pounds
and over, Is and II, and white Leg
horns, 212 pounds and over. IA and Is,
but small to medium stock generally
slow sale at to S cents a pound under
quotations. A good demand prevails
for large, fat, old hens, pounds and
over at Is and 16, but smaller fowl not
so desirable at II 70 IA. with Leghorns
bringing IL and II and all poor light
fowl. as well as old roosters generally
neglected at 8 to 10. Young ducks con-
tinue easy and only full-feathered, fat
stocks attracts attention at 10 to 13;
ducks under pounds Tot wanted at
any price. Guinea fowl meeting with
ready sale at SO to so each, but ship
ment Of birds under IL pounds not ad-
visable, as demand Is centered entirely
on larger birds. Pigeons continue
steady and unchanged from last week
at Is to 20 a pair for young and 20
for old
The market for white potatoes con-
tinues dull under moderate receipts
from all points and demand slow at
IS to IS per 100 pounds and l40 to
1.60 per barrel for Eastern Shore
Maryland, and Virginia cobblers Vir-
ginia sweet potatoes in limited receipt
and meeting with ready sale at 100
to 125 barrel and IS to As bushel.
Receipts are fairly liberal on all
lines of native and nearby garden truck
and under a slow movement prices are
mostly In buyers favor at the follow
ing quotations: Stringless beans, 40
to so bushel; beets, 1.50 to 200 hun
dred; cabbage, 40 to so bushel; car
rots. LOO and 200 hundred; sugar corn,
to 10 dozen; cucumbers, 40 to so
hamper; eggplants. 80 to IS hamper
lima beans. to go hamper; onions,
100 to LIS per 100 pounds; peppers,
20 to 25 hamper: squash, 20 to 80
hamper; tomatoes. Is to IS hamper,
and 35 to 40 bushel for Gamers stock.
Live Stock Market.
The live cattle market on the wharves
holds steady, but quiet with demand
centered on first quality stock and
most of the arrivals consisting of ccm-
mon to ordinary cattle which move
slow at inside prices Quotations today
at Light Street Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound, g..
to III. Common to medium, pound. 3l2
to 6. Bulls, as to quality, pound, 2 to 4
Cows, choice to fancy. pound, 4 to 5.
common to tair, pound, 2 to 3. Oxen
as to quality 2 to S. Calves. veal, choice,
pound, 5la to 6; large, fat pound, Az
to S; large, rough. pound, to AZ;
common, thin, pound, to 31a. Sheep,
pound, IL to 212. Spring lambs,
choice, pound, So. to g.. fair to good,
pound, 4l2 to 5l2; small. thin. pound,
3 to A. Hogs, straight, pound. to 5A.
Sows. pound, 4 to Az Stays, pound,
ga to g. Live pigs, pound, to 10;
Shoats, pound, 6 to 8.