Evening star., 1936-08-15
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, August IS
Potatoes, 100-pounds, 175a210; sweet
potatoes, bushel. ll5a140: beans,
bushei. 65al0o; nearby, bushel. 10Oa
ITO; beets, dozen punches, 25a30;
nearby, bunch, 112a22: cabbage,
nearby. bushel, l00al50: carrots,
crate, 375; basket, 60a65; nearby.
bunch, 2ka3; caulifiower. crate, l0Oa
$50; celery, half-crate, 125a175: corn,
nearby, sugar, dozen, 6a12; cucumbers.
bushel, 50a90; nearby. half-bushel,
3Oa4O; eggplantS, nearby, half-bushel,
20a25; lettuce, Iceburg, crate, 300a450;
big Boston, crate, 50a90; lima beans.
bushel, 150a275; nearby, half-bushel,
100al25: onions, 50-pounds, 65aI00;
peas, bushel. 175a2O0; peppers, .bushel,
35a50; nearby, half-bushel, 2Oa25;
spinach, bushel, 100a125; squash,
nearby, half-bushel, 1oa25: tomatoes,
nearby, half-bushel, 15a35; apples.
bushel, 50a125; nearby. bushel, 50a75:
cantaloupes, crate, 35aloO; nearby,
half-buShel, 25a55; grapes, l2-quart
basket. 35a40; peaches. bushel,
150a250; nearby. bushel, 40a75; pears.
bushel. 200a225; watermelons, each,
3a25.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Chickens Rocks. per
pound, l8a22; mixed colors, l7a22:
Leghorns. 16al7: fowl. Rocks, 2Oa22:
mixed colors, 18a21: Leghorns, 14a16;
rooSters, l2al4; ducks, l2a15.
EggS-Nearby, current receipts, per
dozen, 23a25: Southern. 2la23; whites,
large, 28a29; medium, 25a27; receipts,
929 cases.
Butter-Prints, per pound. 37a38;
good to fancy, creamery. 35a37: store
packed. 24a25; good rolls, 26a27; re-
ceipts, 776 tubs.
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, 5alO; yellow perch, 10a
II; pan trout, 5a6; large, l0al2; blue
fish. 10al2; bass. 10a12; founders,
salO; shrimp, 10al2; porgies, box, ESQ
a3.50; croakers, box, 3.00a3 so; butter
fish, box, 40Oa8.0O; crab meat, claw,
pound, %; regular, 35a37; special, 40a
AZ; back fin, so; frogs. dozen, LISA
$50; CLAIMS, large, per 100, 75a90;
Cherrystones, 60a70; Little Necks. 40;
soft-shell crabs, small to medium,
dozen, 30a6O; large, 75a80; jumbo. 80
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,
3Oa4O; seconds, common, 3a7; me-
dium, 7al5; good to fine, l5a35.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle, ESQ; compared Friday last
week: steers and heifers mostly 25
to IS cents higher; instances more;
COWS and bulls strong to IS cents
higher; stockers and feeders strong;
closing bulk medium to good steers,
7.75a8.35; few loads good grain or
grass, around 1.20O-pound weights
and under, 8.50a875; 900-pound dry
fed yearlings, 9:35; common and me-
dunn grassers, 6.75a750; common
and medium heifers, 5.75a6.50; few
good kinds upward to IT'S; beef cows
mostly 5.O0a5.75; low cutters and cut
ters, 3.50a4.5 top bulls, 6.25; mostly
500 down: bulk common and medium
stockers and feeders, 5.00a6.00.
Calves, SO; vealers about steady for
week; good and choice vealers opened
and closed 8.5Oa9.00; common and
medium, 7.00a8.00; culls below.
Hogs, $50; steady on few here; bet
ter grade 100 to 210 pounds, 12.05a
1925; 22O to $50 pounds, 11.60a12.1o;
140 to 160 pounds, quotable, 1l.60a
1185; 100 to 140 pounds, ll.25all SO;
sows, 9.50a9.75.
Sheep, rs; compared Friday last
week, lambs about steady; sheep
steady to weak; closing bulk good
and choice 10 to 80 pound lambs.
10.50a11.00; comparable grade lighter
weight offerings at discount; medium
to good around 65-pound offerings,
1925; common and medium, 800a
1000; throwouts below; bulk slaughter
ewes, 2.00a4.00.
Grain Market.
Wheat opening prices were: No. 2,
red, Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
Ill; August delivery, Ill.
Corn-No. 2, yellow, domestic, 1.2o.
Western billing at a premium over
this price. Cob corn nominal.
Oats, No. 2, white. domestic, as to
weight and location, 54a64; No. 8,
53a63.
Rye-No. 2, 90a95. Barley, 80a90.
Hay-Under continued light receipts
market has taken on a firmer tone
and values show another advance at
15o0a18.50 per ton for good timothy
and clOvor rf1iYed hav pn0rer tradeS