Evening star., 1936-05-04
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Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

cpeclal DlSpatch TO Inc Star.
BALTIMORE, Mo, May 4.-White
potatoes, per 100 pounds, 1.75a2.00;
new Florida. 2.75a5.75; sweet potatoes,
hamper, 1D0af35; asparagus, crate,
6Qa2.25; beans, bushel, 50a2 90; beets,
half crate, 1.10a1 IS: cabbage, new,
hamper, 60a1. 90; carrots, crate, 240a
=. 800; celery, crate" 20Oa2 75;' cauh-
flower, crate, 1.50a1:60; cucunbers,
bushel, 2.50a3.50; eggplants, crate,
200a2 so; kale, bushel. 50a80; lettuce,
Iceberg, crate, 45oa500; Big Boston,
hamper, 1.00a2.50; lima beans, bushel,
3.50a4.0Q; mushrooms, basket, 25a65;
onions, 50-pound sack, 65al,35; peas,
bushel, 65al. so; peppers. bushel, 1.25a
$50; radishes, 100, 1.O0: spinach,
bushel, 60ae0; rhubarb, nearby, bunch,
Sa4: tomatoes, lug, 1.75a375: squash,
bushel, '150a2 90; apples, bushel, 4Oa
$50; box, 1.65a2.00; grapefruit. box,
'1.4sa3.25; oranges, box, 2.5Oa3.75;
strawberries, quart, l2a2e; pineapples.
crate, 2.5oz2 rs. -"
Dairy Market.
Live poultry-Young chickens, broil-
ers, 22a24; Leghorns, 20a22; hens,
20a22:: Leghorns, isa2o; roosters, 15a
rs: ducks, '1safs. '~'
Eggs-Neafby' current receipts, per
dozen, II; rlennery whites, large, Ia
p: medium, ,21; Southern, 20; receipts,
1887 cases. 49,
Butter-Prints, per pound, 3Oa31;
good to fancy creamery pound, 2s12a
'2s; store packed. 20: good rolls, 22a24;
receipts, 443 tubs. -~ '''' -''N
Sea Food Market.
Catfish rough, per pound, 4;
dressed, 10af2:;> carp, 5; eels, 5a10;
herring, 2a21a; haddock, Z; Spanish
mackerel, 10; pan rock, 10; large rock,
12a15; white perch, 4alO; yellow
perch, 4a10; Southern pike, 1oa12;
shad, buck. 10al2; roe, l5a2o; trout,
1oa15; bluefish, 12a15; king mackerel,
8a1o: sea bass, IL; founders. 5a12;
shrimp, loa15; porgies, box, 500;
croakers. box, 500; butterfish, box
500; crab meat, claw, pound, 80; reg
ular, so; special, 55a60; back fin, 65a
20; frogs: dozen, 1.25a250; clans,
large, per 100, 75a90; Cherrystones,
60a50; little necks, 60.
Tobacco Market.
Maryland leaf tobacco firm; leaf,
nof1descript, 3o0a4.00: COMMON, 400a
1000: medium, 1000a25 90; good to
fine, red. 25o0a40.00; seconds, COM
mon, 300a7o0; medium, 700a120O;
good to fine, 1200a2500.
Live Stock Market.
UNITED States Department of Agri-
culture) -Cattle-75o and 275 hold
overs; rather slow; steers mostly 25
ass cents lower; other classes steady
to weak; instances 15a25 lower; bulk
steers, common and medium grade,
light weights at 7Q0a8.00; few med
ium weights, 800; some good grades
held higher; few head choice $50: few
common and medium stocker steers,
6.75a7 so; heifers, common and med
ium grade, 6.00a775; common and
medium COWS. 5.00a6.00; few good to
$50; low cutters and cutters, 40Oa
500: medium bulls, 6.0Oa6.5Q; good
TO 700.
Calves-575; vealers fully steady;
good and choice, 950a1OO0; common
and medium, 7.ooas.Qo; culls around
COO.
HogE2,05o: rather slow, steady to
cents lower than Saturday; good
and choice, 100 to 21O pounds, 11.10a
ll3Q: top. 1130; 140 to 100 pounds,
ll.o0a11.20; 100 to 140 pounds, 1o.75a
lilo; 220 to ESQ pounds, 19.50al1.10;
heavies down to CTS and below; good
packing sows, s.s5 to 9.3e; stays
around 100 down.
Ghnor-on0. r1v col of oI,c
steady; ewes steady, good and choice
Spring lambs, 1300a13.50; few med
ium. 11o0al2.50; common to good
ewes, 3.5oa5 so.
Grain Market.
Wheat-Opepiug prices were: No. 2
red, Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
l.e1h; May delivery, 1.8l14; settling
prices were No. red, Winter, gar
licky, spot, domestic, lolha; May de-
livery. 1.o1l2.
Corn-No. yellow, domestic, IL;
Western billing at premium over this
price; cob corn. new, 300 per barrel;
nominal because of irregular quality.
0ats-No Q white, domestic, as to
weight and location, 41a5a; No. 8,
4ea52.
Rye-Ne. 2, 7oa75; barley. No. 2,
55a60.
Hay-The general hay market con-
tinues quiet, with receipts ample for
demand, which is easily satisfied. No.
l alfalfa hay is quoted at l280a15.0 90
per ton, while prices on good timothy
and cloyer-mixed hay are nominal
around 10.00al2.50 per ton. Poor
grades of hay are hard to move and
prices are irregular on all grades be-
low No. 8.
Straw-Market for straw steady at
q range of 81 per ton for both No. /
wheat and No. cat.