Evening star., 1933-07-23
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, July 22.-Due to
heavy receipts, especially small, poor
Spring chickens. the live poultry mar
ket rules generally easy, with values
showing a decline Of cent or two
pound on both springers and old hens.
A good demand prevails for springers
averaging 5 pounds and over. which
End ready sale, cleaning up daily with
no surplus, but smaller sized chickens
under 2lp pounds are slow to move out
and the daily receipts consist largely
of this sort. Shipment of stock under
212 pounds not advisable, as poor
springers are always irregular in price
and only tend to lower the value OF
larger sized birds. Plymouth Rock
springers, az pounds and over. are
bringing top prices of 16 to 40 cents
pound. mixed colored Is to 10 and
Rhode Island Reds IA to II, but White
with stock of all kinds under pa
pounds generally slow sale at IL to Is.
Old hens in fairly liberal receipt. and
only stock weighing 3l2 pounds and
ever attracts attention at Il to Is. with
Leghorns selling mostly 10 and IL and
all poor, thin fowl, as we'll as old roost-
ers, hard to place at to 8. Young
ducks in only moderate receipt, but
ample for the demand, which Is CEN
~
market holds steady and unchanged at
10 to IA for ducks Weighing Az pounds
sand over, but old ducks not so desirable
and slow sale at to 10. Not much
sdenand for pigeons, and under liberal
receipt prices continue in buyers favor
at 10 to is q pair for both young and
old.
Egg Market Firm.
The egg market has shown an i'm
provement the last week and holds
steady to firm under fair and con-
slant demand for desirable fresh stock.
No surplus of this sort in dairy receipts.
but buyers are very critical as to quail
ity, and while prompt to pay pre-
MUM on stock that meets their de-
mands average current receipts are slow
to find favor and are showing more or
less loss under the candle. Shippers
are again advised not to hold their
eggs in the country. as prompt Ship
ments at this season OF the year, even
in small case lots, will realize better
results The market closed today at
an advance Of cents dozen for
hennery whites, IS pounds and up at
20 to % cents a dozen. 16 to 10 for
stock weighing so to IS pounds, 16 to
Is for nearby firsts and IA to is for
current receipts.
New potatoes in light receipt and
market holds steady to firm with an
advance of 25 cents at 3.75 to 4.25 per
barrel but only well graded No. / stock
will bring these prices, with mixed No.
as slow sale at Its to 200.
Market for native and nearby garden
truck holds steady under good de-
mand. especially for sugar corn and
tomatoes, both of which are in light
receipt, values on other lines well main
tanned at the following quotations:
Asparagus. LOO to 250 dozen: beans.
so to 80 bushel; beets. $50 to 200 hun
dred; cabbage so to IS bushel; carrots.
$50 to 2.50 hundred; sugar corn, ID to
IS dozen: field corn. 10 to 18 dozen;
cucumbers. is to rs hamper; egg plants.
100 to 125 crate: lima beans. 1.50 to
ITS bushel: onions. 100 to 1.25 per 100
pounds; peppers 20 to Is hamper;
spinach, 35 to so basket; squash. 15 to
hamper.
Live Stock Market.
Movement was fairly good on top
grade cattle under continued light re-
ceipts and the live stock market On the
wharves has taken on a f1rmer tone.
Grain fed cattle continues to bring top
prices, with grassers slow sale at inside
prices Quotations today at Light Street
Wharf:
Beef cattle. first quality, pound. 51a
to 6; common to medium. pound, 3
to S; bulls, as to quality. pound. 2 to
3h cows, choice to fancy, pound,
to 31a; common to fair. pound, ~ to
2k; oxen, as to quality, pound, ~
to s; large, fat, pound, ~ to S; large,
rough, pound, 4 to Az; common, thin,
pound, 8 to 31a. Sheep, pound, ~
IN z Sprinp lambs choice pound 6b
to 71z; fair to good. pound, S to 6;
small, thin, pound, 5 to 4; hogs,
straight, pound. to s.; sows, pound,
3 to az; stays, pound, 2 to az; live
pigs, pound, 8 to &; shoats. 4 to 6.
Despite the fact that there are
number Of vessels loaded with nearby
wheat tied up ct the wharves, there
was no trading on the Baltimore Grain
Exchange again today. The exchange,
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