Evening star., 1936-08-20

Baltimore Markets

Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The star
BALTIMORE. Md. August 10
Potatoes, 100 pounds, 1.60a2. 90; sweet
potatoes, bushel. s5a1.25; beans.
bushel, 4oa7o; nearby, bushel, 75a
LOO: beets, nearby, bunch, 1ha2h:
cabbage, nearby, busfel, Local. rs:
carrots. crate. 3.00a3.50: nearby.
bunch. 1ha2A; celery, crate, 50a2 90;
corn. nearbs. sugar, dozen. 5a10:
caulifiower, crate, 50a1 SO; cucumbers.
bushel, 1.00a1.25: nearby, half-bushel.
25a50; eggplants, nearby, half-bushel,
15a25; lettuce, Iceberg, crate, 1.50a
400; big Boston, crate, 30a65: lima
beans, bushel, 1.00a2. 90; nearby, half
bushel, Goal. 90; onions, so pounds,
75a85: peas. bushel, 1.50a1.85; pep
pers, bushel, 25a50; nearby. half
bushel, 10a20; squash, nearby, half
bushel, 10a20; tomatoes, nearby, half
bushel, 25a50; apples, bushel, 65a1. 90;
nearby, half -bushel, 50a75; canta-
loupes, crate, 40a75: nearby, half
bushel, 10a25; grapes, 2-quart basket.
12a14; honeydews, crate, 2.00a2.25;
peaches, bushel. 75a2.50; nearby, half
bushel, 25a75; pears, bushel. 1.50a
2.25; watermelons, each, 3a22.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Chickens. Rocks, per
pound, 1921; mixed colors, l6a20;
Leghorns, 16al7; fowl, Rocks, 20a21;
mixed colors, 17a20; Leghorns, 14al6:
roosters, 12a14; ducks, 12a15.
Eggs-Nearby current receipts, dozen,
24a26; Southern, 2la23; whites, large,
2sa29; medium, 25a27. Receipts, 1909
cases.
Butter-Prints. per pound, 37a38;
good to fancy, creamery. 35a37; store
packed, 24a25; good rolls, 26a27. Re-
ceipts, 356 tubs.
Seafo0d Market.
Catfish, rough, per pound, 4a5:
dressed, 10a12; carp, 4a5; eels, 6a12;
haddock, SAT; Spanish mackerel, 3aS;
pan rock, 6a8; large rock, l0al2; white
perch, 5a10; yellow perch, 8al0; pan
trout, 3a5: large, 8a10; blue fish,
lOal2; bass, 10a12; founders, 8al0:
shrimp, l0al2; porgies, box, 2.50a
$50; croakers, box, 3.00a3.50 butter
fish, box, 4.00a8 90; crab meat, claw.
pound, 20; regular, 35a37; special,
40a42; back fin. so; frogs, dozen, 1.25a
$50: CLAIMS, large, per 100. 75a80;
cherrystones, 60a70; little necks, 40;
soft-shell crabs, small to medium,
dozen, 30a60; large, 75a80; jumbo,
l.30a1 40; hard crabs, barrel, 3.50a7.50.
Live Stock.
Cattle-1,525: better grade steers
and heifers active; fully steady with
Monday; lower grades somewhat
draggy; mostly steady to weak; few
dry fed yearlings around rs cents
higher; bulk medium to good grass
steers usually under 1900 pounds,
7.50a8.10: latter price on load Of
1,125-pound averages; load 1,450-
pound grassers, $50; load 1,275-
pound weights, 820; common and
medium grades mostly 6.50a7.25; small
lot choice dry fed 850-pound yearlings.
$50; load good 900-pound grass heif-
ers, TBS; odd head above; bulk COM
mon to medium kinds, 6.00a7 90; COWS
and bulls steady; beef COWS, 5.00a
5.75; low cutters and cutters largely
3.50a4.50; some shelly kinds below;
top weighty sausage bulls, 625: bulk,
500a6 90; few common and medium
stocker steers steady at 5.0oa5.75.
Calves-350; steady, good and
choice vealers, 8.50as.0 90; common and
medium, 700a8.00: culls below.
Hogs-650; around is to. 20 cents
lower; better grade, $50 to 2l0 pounds,
12O0al2.30; 220 to $50 pounds. 1l.75a
l2.l5; l40 to 160 pounds, 1l.60a11.S5:
100 to 140 pounds. ll.25ail.45 sows
steady, s.50a9.75.
Sheep-1,7oo; limited early lamb
trade about steady; desirable 7o-pound
offerings and above largely 1880; bulk
| still Ia first hands, several deck bucks
included; slaughter ewes largely 2.00s
400.
Tobacco Market.
Maryland leaf tobacco, firm; leaf,
nondescript, pound, 3a4; common, "A
10; medium, l0a30; good to fine, red,
3oa40; seconds, common, SAT: me-
dunn. 7a15; good to fine, 15a35.
Grain.
Wheat-Opening prices were: No.
2, red, Winter, garlickE spot. domestic,
LA; August delivery, l.14; settling
prices were: No. 2. red, Winter, gar
licky, spot, domestic, l.131s; August
delivery, l.'3a; sales-cargoes on
grade nearby wheat: No. 2, red, VIM
ter, garlicky. liza; No. 3. liz; No. 4,
Ito; No. 5, 108. Smutty wheat-2
cents under quotations.
Corn-No. 2. yellow. domestic. 1.23;
Western billing at premium over this
price. Cob corn-new. nominal.
Oats-No. 2, white, domestic, as to
weight and location, 56a66; No. 3,
55a65.
Rye-No. 2, 95a100. Barley. S5a90.
Hay-Under continued light receipts
market has taken on a firmer tone
and values show another advance at
15.00a1S.5O per ton for good timothy
and clover mixed hay. Poorer grades
generally slow sale at irregular values,
with hay grading below No. 3 hard
to place at any price.
Straw-Market slow, with demand
easily satisfied, but values are fairly
| well maintained at 7.50 Der ton for