Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-26
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, November u.s.
With the unseasonably warm weather
prevailing the last week the live poultry
market is practically demcralized and
values on all lines show sharp declines
with little prospect of improvement IL,
prices unless there is decided change
before Thanksgiving.
Shippers are advised to ship live
stock for the Thanksgiving holiday and
not to ship anything to arrive later
than Tuesday.
Only limited shipments of dressed
turkeys are advisable unless there is q
only large, fat, young hens. 10 pounds
and over, and young gobblers, IL
pounds and over, should be killed.
Live turkeys today are selling at the
lowest price in years, with young hens
bringing only Is and 16 cents pound
and young gobblers IA and Is. White
hens and toms move slowly at IS and
IA. with crooked breast and thin tur-
keys hard to move at 10.
Young chickens in ample receipt for
the demand, which is limited at IL to
10, but Leghorns will not bring over
10 and II and poor, thin fowl steady,
slow to move out at and 9.
Old hens, 3l2 pounds and over, sell
mostly 10 to IA, but LeghornS not so
desirable at 8 and 9, and all poor, light
sacrificed to the Arab trade at to 8.
Young ducks, Az pounds and over,
heading steady at 10 to 10. with white
variety bringing top values, but geese
show decline Of cent or two a
pound at II to 10, with poor, thin ducks
and geese hard to move at and 9.
Guinea fowl and pigeons head steady
and unchanged at IS to 40 each for
the former and Is to 20 pair for the
latter.
Egg Market Easier.
Under liberal receipts from all sec
tions the egg market has an easier
tone. but values show no change from
last week. HcnneTy whites and browns,
when of good size and quality. are
bringing top values Of % to "a cents a
dozen for stock weighing 81 pounds
and up to the case, but pullet eggs
move slow at % to "a. Nearby firsts,
when we'll graded and of fresh-laid
quality, sell mostly 81 and %, with
current receipts bringing 26 and q.
The white potato market has shown
an improvement the past week under
light receipts and values are higher at
lao to so per 100 pounds, with un-
graded mixed stock selling mostly l.2o
to 1856. Sweet potatoes in liberal re-
ceipt but under a good demand market
holds steady at 30 to 40 per hamper
for nearby and so to rs per bushel for
Eastern Shore stock, with Virginia
sweets selling 10 to 125 per barrel,
but ungraded. mixed stock will not
bring over IS to 100. Vans in mod
crate receipt, but consist almost en-
tirely of ungraded stock and sell mostly
at 1.25 to Its per barrel.
Native and nearby garden truck IN
liberal receipt and values on some lines
especially spinach, show sharp declines
at the following quotations: Beets, 30
to $50 hundred; carrots, 200 to 2.5O
hundred; pumpkins 500 to 1900 nun
dred; Savoy cabbage, 40 to 60 bushel,
and spinach, 90 to As bushel.
Live Stock Market.
Under the approach Of Thanksgiving,
when poultry is the principal attrac-
ton. the live stock market on the
wharves is very dull and only choicest
Most of the receipts still continue OF
common in.betWeen stock, VnlCn IS
slow sale at inside prices.
Quotations today at Light street
Wharf: Beef cattle, first quality, pound,
51E to s; common to medium, to s.
bulls, as to quality, to 80; COWS,
choice to fancy, to 81; common TO
fair, IL to 212; oxen, as to quality, =
to 31s; calves, veal, choice, 6 to 615
large, fat, S to 5l2; large, rough. to
AZ: common. thin, 3 to 3l2. Sheep,
IL to 2is; Spring lambs, choice, to
6l2; fair to good. S to 5l2: small,
thin, 8 to 4. Hogs, straight, Az to 5;
sows, 81 to 4; stays, 2la to 8; live
pigs, 8 to g; shoats, to 6.
Closing grain quotations: Wheat. NO
2 red Winter, garlicky spot, domestic
86H; November, 1914; December de-
livery, S634; corn, No. 2. yellow DO
nestle, 60a61: cob corn, 2.5oa2.75 pei
barrel; oats. No. 2, white domestic, as
to weight and location, 45a47; No. 8
s44a3.45: rye, nearby bag lots, 75a00.