Evening star., 1936-08-18
Baltimore Markets
eptc,ai Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, August l8.-Po-
tatoes, 100 pounds, 1.60a210; sweet
potatoes, bushel, 100a1.40; beans,
bushel, 5oa65; nearby, bushel, 5oa1.00;
beets. dozen punches, 25a30; nearby.
bunch, l1aa21a; cabbage, nearby,
bushel, 1.25a15 so; carrots, crate, 3.00a
3.75; basket, 6Oa65; nearby, bunch, "a
az; caulifower, crate. 50al.50: celery,
crate, 1.25a225; corn, nearby, sugar,
dozen, 8al2; cucumbers, bushel, l.00a
1.25: nearby, half bushel, 25a50; egg
plants. nearby, half bushel, 20a25; let
tuce, Iceberg, crate, 225a4.25; Big Bos-
ton, crate, 50a80; lima beans. bushel,
1.oOa2.O0 nearby, half bushel, 75a85;
onions, SO pounds, 80a90; peas, bushel,
l.s5a2.OO; peppers, bushel, 25a5o;
nearby. half bushel, 15a25; spinach.
bushel, 1.25s1 so; squash, nearby, half
bushel, 1Oa20; tomatoes, nearby, half
bushel, 20a50; apples, bushel, 65al.lo;
nearby, bushel, 5Oa75; cantaloupes,
crate, 25a75; nearby, half bushel, 20a
so: grapes. 2-quart basket, Is; peaches,
bushel, soa225; nearby. half bushel'
40a75: pears, bushel, 1.75a2.25; water
melons, each, 13a23.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Chickens. rocks, per
pound, 18a21; mixed colors, l6a2l;
Leghorns. 16a17; fowl, rocks, 2oa21;
mixed colors, 17a20; Leghorns, 14a16;
roosters, l2a14: ducks, 12a15.
Eggs-Nearby, current receipts per
dozen, 23a25; southern, 21a23; whites.
large, 28a29: medium. 25a27; receipts,
632 cases.
Butter-Prints, per pound, 37a38;
good to fancy. creamery. 35a37; store
packed, 24a25; good rolls, 26a27; re-
ceipts, $50 tubs.
Live Stock.
Cattle-1O0; largely nominal; few
low cutter and cutter COWS steady at
3.50a4.50.
Calves-50; not enough to test val
ues: few better grade vealers steady
to weak at $50
Hogs-35O; generally steady; better
grade. l6O to 210 pounds, 12.25a12.45;
22O to $50 pounds. 11.S0al2.3O; 140 to
100 pounds, 11.80a12.05; 100 to lao
pounds. 11.45a11.70; sows. 9.50a9.75;
stays, 500 down.
Sheep-200; not enough to make
market; few desirable weighty truck
lambs steady at 1880; common and
medium quotable. 7.75a975; sheep
nominally steady; best fat ewes quot
able upward to 400.
Grain Market.
wheat-Opening prices were: No. 2
red Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
LA; August delivery, LA. Settling
prices we're: No. red Winter, garlicky,
spot, domestic, 1.1312; August delivery,
1882.
Sales-Cargoes on grade nearby
wheat: No. 2, red, Winter, garlicky,
1884,; No. 3, LIE; No. 4, 1.091a;
No. 5, 1.0712. Smutty wheat 2 cents
under quotations.
Corn-No. 2, yellow. domestic, 1872;
Western billing at premium over this
price. Cob corn, new, nominal.
Oats-No. 2, white, domestic, as to
weight and location, 55a65; No. 8.
54a64.
Rye-No. 2, 95a1O Barley-85a90.
Hay-Under continued light receipts
market has taken on firmer tone
and values show another advance at
15.00al8.50 per ton for good timothy
and clover mixed hay. Poorer grades
generally slow sale at irregular values,
with hay grading below No. hard
to place at any price.
Straw-Market slow, with demand
easily satisfied. but values are fairly
we'll maintained at 7.50 per ton for
both No. wheat and No. oat.
Sea Food Market.
Catfish. rough, per pound, 4a5;
dressed. 10a12; carp, 4a5; eels, 6a12;
haddock, SAT; Spanish mackerel, 3a
10; pan rock, 10; large rock, 12a15;
white perch. 5a10; yellow perch. 10a
IL; pan trout, Sac; large, 10a12; blue
fish, 10a12; bass. 10a12; founders,
sa10; shrimp, 10a12; porgies. box, ESQ
fish, box, 400a80 crab meat, claw,
pound, 28; regular, 35a37; special, 40
a42; back I'm, so; frogs, dozen, LISA
$50; clans, large. per 100, 75a80;
Cherrystones, 60a70; Little Necks, 40;
soft-shell crabs. small to medium,
dozen, 30a6o; large, 75a80; Jumbo, 1.3o
a1.40; hard crabs, barrel, 3.50a7.50.
Tobacco Market.
Maryland leaf tobacco firm; leaf,
nondescript. pound, 3a4; common, IA
10; medium, 10a30; good to fine. red,
3Oa40; seconds. common, SAT; me-
dunn 7a1S. 0ood to fine 15a35.