Evening star., 1933-12-10
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

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The live poultry market continues quiet
against any activity and values on some
, lines show q decline. Receipts gen.
orally light, especially of large fat
|, stock, but ample for requirements and
| unless the weather turns colder only
limited shipments advisable. Demand
Tor turkeys centered on fat hens, 10
pounds and over, which are bringing
Is and II cents a pound and young
! gobblers IL pounds and over, IA and
/ Is, with old hens and toms selling
mostly IA. but poor, thin turkeys as
well as crooked breasts move slow at
10 to 10. Market for young chickens
has a slightly better tone and values
i are holding steady at 13 to IS for stock
smaller will not bring over IL and 13,
Plymouth Rocks still bringing top
prices with all poor light fowl neg
lected at and 8. Demand for old
hens holds steady and values are a
shade higher at 10 to II for fowl
weighing 31a pounds and over, Leg
horns will not bring over 8 and 10,
however, and all poor, thin fowl as
well as old roosters slow to move out
at to 8. Young ducks and geese in
fair demand and market holds steady
with little change in prices at 9 to u
for the former and II to 13 for the
latter but stock weighing under 41s
pounds generally neglected at to 9.
Guinea fowl and pigeons unchanged
from last week at 25 to IS each for
the former and Is to 20 a pair for
both young and old of the latter.
Egg Market Easy.
The egg market rules easy under
liberal receipts from all sections, de-
mand being only fair and the general
movement in large way easily salts
fed. Nearby stock of first quality that
has the size and freshness, weighing
SIS pounds and up to the case. moving
place even at the lower prices quoted.
Hennery stock has to be of fresh laid
and desirable weight to sell readily at
% to 80 cents dozen and 26 to %,
for So to 81 pound cases, with pullets
selling mostly 20 to 20. Nearby frsts
are selling at the same level as Western
refrigerated stock, rs and 26, with cur
rent receipts slow sale at "a and IS.
Demand for white potatoes shows q
little improvement and under only
moderate receipts values are q shade
higher at lao to 1.60 per 100 pounds
for round stock and 125 to 1.40 for
long reds, but ungraded. mixed stock
will not bring over LIS to 1.35. Sweet
for nearby and IS to 90 bushel for
Eastern Shore stock, with Virginia
sweets bringing 1.10 to 1.25 q barrel.
but ungraded hard to place at IS to 100
Yams In good demand and prices well
maintained ut 1.25 to Its per barrel.
Native and nearby vegetables in mod
crate receipt and market shows little
change from last week at the following
quotations: Beets, 1.50 to 2.50 hundred; !;
carrots, 400 to ESQ hundred; kale, As
bushel; onions, 90 to Ito per 50-pound
| sacks; Savoy cabbage, IS to so bushel,
and spinach, Is to so bushel.
Live Stock Steady.
The live stock market on the wharves
shows little change. demand being
easily satisfied and centered principally
on first-quality stock.
Quotations today at Light street
wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound, 5Ka
to. 6; common to medium, pound, 8
to s.; bulls, as to quality, pound, to
3k; cows, choice to fancy, pound, 3
to 31a; common to fair, pound, 1l2 to
2k; oxen. as to quality, pound. 1la to
3lz; calves, veal, choice, pound, 6l7 to
Z; large, fat, pound, 5la to g.; large.
rough, pound, AZ to s; common. thin,
pound, 31a to 4; sheep, pound, ~ to
21a; Spring lambs, choice. pound, 6l2
to Z; fair to good, pound, to 6; small,
thin, pound, 312 to Az: hogs, straight,
pound, to Az; sows. pound. to 312;
stays. pound, 2 to 21a; live pigs, pound,
to 9; shoats, pound. to 6.
Closing grain quotations.: wheat
No. 2 red Winter, garlicky, spot, do
mestic, 90; December, 90; January de-
livery, 911a. Corn-No. 2 yellow, do
mestic, old. 65a6e; cob corn, new. ESQ
a275 per barrel. Oats-No. 2 white,
domestic, as to weight and location,
48a52: No. 3, 47a48. Rye-Nearby, bag
lots, 75a80.