Evening star., 1934-11-18
Baltimore Markets

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Nd, November IL
With the opening of the rabbit season
this week shippers are advised that
rabbits can only be sold in Baltimore
market provided they are shipped
from points outside of the State. Gar
rett County is the only county that
can ship rabbits to Baltimore to be
sold. but cannot ship to any other
points in Maryland. Season for rab-
bits closes December 81. 1t is unlaW-
full to purchase. receive on conSlgn-
ment or offer for sale any other game
within the State of Maryland
The live poultry market holds gen.
orally steady to firmer, with turkeys
and young chickens showing slight
advance and all first quality stock
meets with ready sale. but poor, un-
dersized poultry slow to move out at
inside prices. Young hen turkeys. 9
pounds and over, in light receipt and
clean up readily at 10 to 20 cents a
pound. with gobblers, IA pounds and
up, selling mostly Is. but smaller COB
blers as we'll as old hens and old
toms will not bring over Is to IT,.
Young chickens. 4 pounds and over
and fat broilers, 1l2 to 2 pounds SELL
ing to advantage, the demand being
steady for this sort, at Is to 13, with
2 to pound fowl selling mostly l3 to
Is, but all thin. rough stock hard to
place at 10 to 12 Old hens in more
liberal receipt and values show slight
decline at u to II for stock weighing
3l2 pounds and over, but Leghorns
will not bring over II to 13 and all
poor. light fowl and old roosters hard
to place at 9 to II. Ducks and geese
steady and unchanged from last week
at II to IA for the former and 13
to II for the latter, with stock under
Az pounds selling mostly to -.
Guinea ioWl and pigeons also steady
at 40 to so each for the former and
Is pair for both unchanged and old
of the latter.
Egg Market Firm.
Under light receipts of nearby
fresh laid eggs the market holds firm
with values showing an advance of a
cent or two a dozen at 81 to 38 for
nearby hennery whites and 33 to IS
for mediums, but pullets generally
neglected at 25 to 81. Very little ac-
tlvity on the exchange, which is on a
current receipt basis at 80 to 33, most
of the business passing being confined
to street sales.
Market for white potatoes dull and
values mostly in buyers favor at rs
to 30 per hundred pounds, but poorly
graded, mixed stock will not bring
over 60 to 10. Sweet potatoes and
yams in fairly LIBERAL receipt, but
under good demand market holds
steady at 40 to so per hamper for the
former and 200 to 2.25 for the latter
Native and nearby vegetables in
moderate receipt and market shows
little change from last week at the
following quotations: Cabbage, 1900
ton; carrots. 1.50 to 200 hundred:
kale, 25 to 80 basket; peppers. 25 to
40 hamper; pumpkins, 500 to 1900
hundred; savoy cabbage. 25 to 35
bushel, and spinach, so to IS bushel.
Live Stock Firmer.
The live stock market on the
Wharves steady to f1rmer, with values
on first quality stock showing a slight
advance, bulk of the receipts, how
ever, consist of common in-between
kinds, which move slow at inside
prices. Quotations today at Light
street were as follows: Beef cattle,
first quality, pound, 6 to 612; COM
mon to medium, to 5: bulls, as to
quality, to 4; COWS. choice to fancy,
312 to 4; common to fair, 2 to g.;
oxen, as to quality, 2 to 4; calves,
choice, 7l2; large. fat, heavy. 6 to 4:
large, rough, heavy, to So; COM
mon, thin, 4; sheep, IL to 2; Spring
lambs, choice fat. 612; fair to good,
to 6; small, thin. to 4: hogs,
straight, s; sows, 5; stays, 3; live pigs,
9 to 10; Shoats, Z to 8.