Evening star., 1934-11-25
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, Md, November "a
Shipments for turkeys for the Thanks
giving holiday should be timed TO ar
rive here not later than Tuesday
morning for live stock and late Tues
day night for dressed. Unless there
is decided change in weather, how
ever, shipments Of live turkeys ad-
visable as the weather is too warm
to handle dressed stock to advantage.
Shippers. also are advised not to
ship poor, thin turkeys which will
effect market values for the better
class of stock. With the approach
of the holiday market for turkeys
has taken on a decidedly firmer tone,
cents a pound for young hens,
young gobblers, 10 pounds and over,
with old hens and old toms selling
mostly Is. Turkeys being the chief
attraction, other poultry show a de-
cline, with young chickens, pounds
and over, quoted at Is to IL. and
smaller IA to Is. but Leghorns will
not bring over 13 and IA, and poor,
rough stock slow sale at 10 to IL.
Market for old hens easy and only
poultry weighing 31a pounds and over
attracts attention at IL to Is, with
Leghorns selling mostly IL and 13,
and poor, light fowl as well as old
roosters neglected at to IL. Fair
demand for young ducks and geese,
AZ pounds and over, at 10 to 13
for the former and IL to Is for the
latter, but smaller stock hard to
place at and 10. Guinea fowl and
pigeons in ample receipt and un-
changed at 40 to 5 0each for the
former and IS pair for the latter.
Egg Market Easier.
Under more liberal receipts the past
week the egg market has taken on an
easier tone, with values showing a
slight decline. Hennery eggs, both
white and brown, bringing top values
of SO cents a dozen, but small stock
sells mostly 80 and 80 and pullet eggs
will not bring over 25 to %. Very
little trading on the exchange and
street sales on a current-receipt basis
at 80 to 80 constitute the bulk of
sales.
White potatoes in liberal receipt
from all sections, and market con-
tinues dull at rs to 80 per 100 pounds,
with mixed, poorly graded stock SELL
ing mostly so to 10; sweet potatoes and
yams unchanged from last week at
40 to so per hamper for the former
and 400 to 2.25 barrel for the latter.
Nearby vegetables in only moderate
receiSs, but ample for the demand and
prices show little change from last
week at the following quotations:
Cabbage, 1000 to 1900 ton; carrots,
1.50 to 200 hundred; kale, Is to 80
bushel; pumpkins, 500 to 1900 hun
dred; Savoy cabbage. rs to IS bushel;
spinach, so to rs bushel, and turnips,
Is to Is hamper.
Live Stock Market.
With consumptive demand CEN
tered on poultry next week. the live
stock market will attract but little at
tention and only limited shipments ad-
visable. Markets on the wharves gen.
orally easier and values mostly in buy
er's favor, at the following quotations:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound 6
to 612; common to medium, pound, 3
to S; bulls, as to quality, pound, to A.
cows, choice to fancy, pound. 31a to 4;
common to fair, pound, 2 to 3; oxen, as
to quality, pound, 2 to 4; calves,
choice. pound, 612; large, fat, heavy.
pound, 51a to 6; large. rough, heavy.
pound, to 5la; common, thin, pound,
to 412; sheep, pound, 11a to .;
Spring lambs, choice, fat, pound. So:
fair to good, pound, S to 6; small,
thin, pound, 3 to 4; hogs, straight,
pound, 6; sows, pound. S; stays, pound,
3; live pigs, pound. 9 to 10: shoats,
pound, Z to 8.
Closing Grain Quotations.
Wheat, No. 2, red Winter, garlicky,
spot domestic, 98A: November deliv-
cry, 98A. Corn, No. 2, yellow, old spot
domestic, 100; cobcorn, nominal.
Oats, No. 2, white domestic, as to
weight and location, 64a69; No. 8, 63a
SO. Rye. nearby. No. 2. 9oas5. Bar
ley, 85a90.