Evening star., 1933-04-09
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, April 8.-Due K
an increased demand from the packers
for storage the egg market has hele
steady the past week, with values show
/ ing slight increase. The movement
! to storage will no doubt become more
! active from now on and with the ap-
proach of Easter holidays values are
| expected to show another advance next
week. Sales on the exchange have
been fair and all fresh laid nearby
| stock meets with ready sale, but offer
| ings of doubtful quality are hard to
move and Of uncertain value. The
market closed today at 1914 cents q
dozen for current receipts, with hen
merry whites having size and quality
bringing premium. Duck eggs con-
tinue in liberal receipt and market is
easy and lower ct Is and II for large,
clean stock and IA and IS for medium
sized.
Poultry Prices.
The live poultry market holds steady
to firm, especially on chickens and both
young and old hens, which show an
advance Of a cent pound over last
week. Medium sized, fat broiling
chickens especially wanted and scarce
ored, -. to 2A pounds, with white
Leghorns bringing 81 and %. Market
for young chickens holds firm at 20 to
%, but shipment of poor. thin stock
not advisable, as this class OF fowl has
to be sold to the street trade and Is of
uncertain value. Heavy, fat old hens
in good demand, especially by the
Jewish trade for the holidays which
begin on Tuesday and liberal ship
ments of fat stock advisable, as Mary
land and nearby fowl is preferred to
Southern stock, which consists mostly
Of poor and thin fowl. Medium to
large old hens, pounds and over, are
bringing 13 to is and 3la to 4 Founders
as well as fat Leghorns II and II;
but poor, thin fowl as well as old
roosters are hard to place at and 9.
The active season for turkeys is about
over and only limited demand prevails
for young hens, 9 pounds, and over at
%, with old hens bringing 20, but
young gobblers, II pounds and over, not
so desirable at II and Is and old toms
slow sale at IA and is. Market for
capons holds very firm under light
receipt and a. good demand for birds
weighing 6 pounds and over at % to
Is, but smaller and slips will not bring
over 20 and 81. Demand for ducks
only fair and centered on large, fat
stock, Az pounds and over. at ii to
Is and smaller fowl not wanted at any
price. Guinea fowl and pigeons in
ample supply for the demand, but
prices hold steady at 25 to As each
for the former and Is to 20 pair for
the latter.
Vegetable Prices.
The market for white potatoes con-
tinues steady under moderate receipts
but ample for the demand at 85 to
100 per 100 pounds. Sweet potatoes
in fair supply and market holds steady
at rs to 80 bushel for nearby and
Eastern Shore stock, but Virginia
sweets will not bring over 40 and SO.
Yams increasing in receipt, but values
are unchanged from last week at 1.25
to 1.60 per barrel.
Only few lines of native vegetables
are on sale and mostly in buyers favor
at the following quotations:
kale, Is to 20 bushel; spinach, 35 to
40 bushel, and turnips, rs to 40 basket.
The live stock market on the wharves
continues quiet and easy and little
improvement is looked for until after
Easter. Demand easily satisfied and
centered on first quality stock. Quota
tions today at Light Street Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound. S;
common to medium. 2 to 4; bulls, as
to quality. 1Ia to 312; COWS, choice to
fancy, 3 to A; common to fair, lis to
az; oxen. as to quality, 1la to 31s;
calves, veal choice, s to 51s large, fat,
4 to Az; large. rough. to 3l2; COM
mon, thin, 2 to 21a; sheep. IL to .21a;
to quality, sis toa6la; hogs. straight,
3is to 4: sows, 2la to 8; stays, IIa to
q; live pigs, to 8: shoats, to 6,
Closing grain quotations-Wheats Moo
2 red Winter. garlicky. spot, domestic,
II bid April delivery, II; May de-
livery, 72H.
Corn. No. 2 yellow, domestic, 49a50;
cob corn, 2.40a2.50 per barrel: oats, No.
2 white, domestic, as to weight and
location, 3la34; No. 8, 30a31; rye
nearby, bag lots, 50a55.