Evening star., 1934-11-04
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO Inc otar.
BALTIMORE, Md. November s.
The live poultry market continues to
show a decline under fairly liberal
receipts and with only moderate de-
mand centered on first-quality stock.
All Door. thin fowl neglected and hard
to place in some cases even at sharp
discounts.
With the exception of turkeys and
guinea fowl values all along the line
show a decline of a cent or two
pound and prices are mostly in buy
ers' favor.
Young hen turkeys. 9 pounds and
over. in fairly good demand at % cents
pound and gobblers. Is pounds and
over. at 20. with old hens and old
toms selling mostly at 18. Young
chickens. pounds and over. are bring
ing IA to II, and 3 to 3 Founders, IA
to l6. with Leghorns selling mostly 13
and IA. and poor, rough fowl hard to
place at 10 to -.
A fairly good demand continues for
old hens. 81 pounds and over, at 13
to II, and u to l3 for Leghorns, but
small thin fowl, as well as old roosters,
SlOW W OuI az W -.
Market for young ducks easy and
only large. fat stock attracts atten-
tion at II to IA. with ducks under
Az pounds slow to move out at and
TO- Guinea fowl and pigeons un-
changed at 40 to so each for the for
mer and Is pair for the latter.
Eggs Fairly Steady.
The egg market has held fairly
steady the past week with prices and
quotations showing little change
Western refrigerator eggs supplying
the market in most instances on ac-
count of better grading than nearby
stock. Hennery whites in light receipt
and all stock of large size and fresh
ness, ST pounds and up to the case.
meet with ready sale at top prices of
36 to 40 cents a dozen. with medium
size henneries selling "a to 35. Pull
let eggs. however, will not bring over
25 to %. The market closed today
at % to 80 for current receipts. which
is the basis of the local market on
the exchange as well as on the street.
White potatoes in fairly liberal re-
ceipt from all sections and market
continues dull and draggy at IS to 80
for U. S. No. Is and Is to IS for
Cobblers, but mixed, poorly graded
stock will not bring over 60 to TO-
Sweet potatoes in better demand and
values are shade higher at 80 to 35
per hamper and 75 to 85 buShel.
Nearby vegetables in moderate re-
ceipt but ample for the demand, with
values holding fairly steady at the fol-
lowing quotations: Stringless beans, rs
to l.50 bushel; beets and carrots, $50
to 200 hundred; Savoy cabbage, 80
to 40 buShel; kale, 25 to AS bushel;
lima beans, $50 to 800 bushel; pep
perS, Is to 35 hamper; pumpkins. 300
to 1000 hundred, and spinach, 40 to
Is buShel.
Live Stock Easy.
The live stock market on the
wharves continues quiet and easy, with
values showing a slight decline all
along the line. Only first quality stock
attracts attention and most of the
arrivals consist of common n-between
kinds which are slow sale at inside
prices. Quotations today at Light
Street Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound 6;
common to medium, to 5; bulls, as
to quality. to 4; calves, choice to
fancy, 81 to 4; common to fair. to
3; oxen, as to quality, to 4; calves,
choice, 7l2 large. fat. heavy, to 7;
large, rough. heavy, to 5i2; common
thin, to 5; sheep. IL to 2; Spring
lambs, choice. fat. 6l2 to 6s4; fair to
good, to 6; small. thin, to A. hogs,
straight, 6; sows, 5; stays, 8; live pigs,
to 10; shoats, to 8.
Closing grain quotations-Wheat,
No. 2 red, Winter, garlicky, spot,
domestic 9S5s; November 98as; corn.
No. 2 yellow, domestic. spot, 90; cob
corn, $50 per barrel; oats, No. white,
domestic, as to weight and location,
62a67 No. 3, 6la66; rye, nearby, No
2, 85a95.