Evening star., 1935-02-10
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star,

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BALTIMORE, Md, February o.
Under light receipts from all sections
ana good demand, the egg market
! holds steady to firm at an advance of
to cents a dozen, with all fresh
laid, desirable stock meeting with
! ready sale.
| Offerings on the exchange very few
owing to light truck deliveries and
most Of the business is confined to
street sales Nearby current receipts
OF fresh quality and hennery whites
having size and freshness are given
preference by buyers The market
closed today at "a cents a dozen for
hennery whites 80 and 80 for medium
and current receipts, but only fresh
laid, well graded stock will bring these
quotations.
Live Poultry Easier.
The live poultry market rules gen.
orally easier and values on most lines
show sharp declines, especially old
hens, which show a decrease of 6
cents a pound. Turkeys are in light
receipt and old hens pounds and
over are bringing top prices Of 20
and 29 cents a pound, with gobblers
selling mostly 81 to "a, but too many
light gobblers are being shipped and
are hard to move at irregular values.
Young chickens, two pounds and over,
are in fairly good demand at II to 20,
tut small, thin stock Is hard to place
at IL and 13.
Only large, fat hens 31a pounds and
over, attract attention at IA to l6,
| with all smaller fowl, as we'll as old
roosters, hard to move out at II to
r.
Capons are steady and unchanged
at "a to Is for birds weighing 5
pounds and over. Ducks and geese
| show little change from last week at
IA to 18 for the former and IS to 20
for the latter, but poor, thin stock
under AZ pounds neglected at 10 and
II. Guinea fowl and pigeons steady
at IS each for the former and Is
pair for the latter.
Market for white potatoes shows
no change, demand being only fair
under moderate receipts and values
continue in buyers favor at rs to IS
per 100 pounds and IS to 10 for mixed,
ungraded stock. Demand for sweet
potatoes and yams shows an improve
ment and values are well maintained
at so to so hamper and ITO tC 1.25
per bushel, for the former and IS to
100 bushel for the latter.
Vegetables Go Down.
With only few native and nearby
vegetables on the market, demand Is
/ turned to southern stock and values
, show a decline at 40 to so bushel for
kale, 20 to Is hamper for white tur-
nips and IS to 100 per 100 pounds
for yellow turnips
The live stock market on the
wharves holds steady under fairly
good demand, but centered mostly on
first quality stock. Quotations today
at Light Street Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, pound, 8
to 9. Common to medium, pound, 5
to z. Bulls, as to quality, pound. 81
| to 5h. Cows, choice to fancy, pound,
Az to 51a. Common to fair, pound, 8
to 4. Oxen, as to quality, pound,
81 to 5h. Calves, choice, pound, Sh
to 9. Large, fat, heavy, pound, to 8.
Large, rough, heavy. pound, to 6.
Common, thin, pound, 4 to S. Old
bucks, pound, 2k to 3K2. Sheep,
pound, 8 to 4. Spring lambs. choice,
fat, pound, 9h. Fair to good, pound,
IL to 9. Small, thin, pound, 5 to 6.
Hogs, straight, pound, IN to 8. Sows,
pound, 6 to Z. Stays, pound, 4 to S.
Live pigs, pound, 10 to IL. Shoats,
pound, 8 to 8.
Closing grain quotations-Wheat, No.
2, red Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
90 ?; February delivery, 99K2; corn,
NO. 2, yellow, domestic, spot, s2; cob-
corn, nominal; oats, No. 2, white,
domestic, as to weight and location,
62a67; No. 3, 61a66; rye. nearby, NJ
Ia, 85a90; barley, 90a95.