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

BALTIMORE, Md, November 10
Under very light receipts of strictly
fresh-laid nearby eggs, the market has
takenon decidedly flrmer tone, with
values showing an advance of cents a
dozen on the basis of current receipts
with hennery whites bringing a pre-
MUM over quotations.
All welI-graded, fresh-laid stock
cleans up readily, but small pullet
eggs have to be sold at discounts
The market closed today at 38 to 40
cents dozen for hennery whites and
medium henneries "a to SO, with cur
rent receipts at 80 to 80. but pullet
eggs do not bring over 25 to %.
With the exception of turkeys
which are in slow demand and show
sharp decline. the live poultry mar
ket holds steady to firm, with values
on old hens showing advance of a
cent a pound Only large fat stock
attracts attention and shippers are
advised not to ship poor, thin fowl
which are not wanted and have. to
be sacrificed at a discount.
Young Turkeys Moved.
Young hen turkeys, 9 pounds and
over, are bringing 18 to 20 cents a
pound. and gobblers. IS pounds and
over, l8. but old hens and old toms
are slow sale at II. Young chickens
pounds and over sell mostly IA to
II, but Leghorns generally slow sale
at 13 and IA, with poor. thin stock
hard to place at 10 to r. Old hens
in better demand and market holds
firm and higher at 13 to 18 for fowl
weighing 3l2 pounds and over, with
Leghorns selling mostly II and 13
and poor, light fowl and old roosters
slow to move out at 9 to II.
Market for ducks is steady at II
to IA for large fat stock, but anything
under Az pounds neglected at and
10. Geese are in good demand ano
meet with ready sale at 13 to II and
10 to II for poor, thin stock. Guinea
fowl and pigeons are steady and un-
changed at 40 to SO each for the for
mer and IS pair for the latter.
The white potato market holds
steady under fairly liberal receipts
at rs to 80 per 100 pounds for United
States No. l, with mixed, ungraded
stock selling mostly 60 to 10. Sweet
potatoes in good demand and values
show an advance at 40 to so pei
hamper for nearbys and IS to loo
bushel for Eastern Shore stock.
Native and nearby garden truck is
in fairly good demand and values are
we'll maintained at the following quo
tations:
Beets and carrots. $50 to 200 hun
dred; Savoy cabbage, 80 to 40 bushel;
kale, 25 to 40 bushel; peppers, Is tc
35 hamper; pumpkins, 500 to 1900
hundred, and spinach, 40 to rs buSael
Live Stock Inactive.
The live stock market on the
Wharves continues quiet, with only
f1rst-quality stock showing any ac-
tivity and most of the arrivals consist
of common in-between kinds which
move slow at inside prices. Quotations
today at Light Street Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound, 6;
common to medium, 8 to 5. Bulls. as
to quality, 2 to 4. Cows, choice to
fancy, 31a to 4; common to fair, 2
to 3. Oxen. as to quality, ~; large
fat. heavy, 6 to 7: large. rough, heavy
5 to 5l2; common, thin, 4. Sheep
IL to 2. Spring lambs, choice, fat
6 to 6l2; fair to good, 5 to 5l2; small,
thin, to 4. Hogs-Straight, 6; sows,
5; stays, 3; live pigs, to 10; shoats,
to 8.
Closing grain quotations-Wheat,
No. 2, red, Winter, garlicky, spot do
mestic, SO; November delivery, 80.
Corn, yellow, domestic, spot, 95; cob
corn, nominal. Oats, No. 2, white,
domestic, as to weight and location
63a68; No. 3, 62a67. Rye, nearby, No.
2, 90a95. Barley, 85a90.