Evening star., 1937-12-14
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 14.-Pota-
toes, per l00-pound sack, 50a1.25;
sweet potatoes, bushel, 50a1 90; nearby,
half bushel, 30a35; yams. bushel, 50a
80; beans, bushel, 225a2 so; beets,
half crate, 1.75; nearby, bunch, 1a2;
broccoli, crate, 1.75a2.50; Brussels
sprouts. quart, 10a12; drum. 100a
200; cabbage, round type, 10O-pound
sack. $50; Danish, 50-pound sack,
85a90; carrots, bushel. 65al. 90; Cali
fornla. crate, 300a3.75; caulihower,
crate, 75a1 so; celery, crate. 00a2 rs;
collards, bushel, 40; cucumbers, bushel,
1.25a3,00; eggplants, crate. l.25a2.75;
kale, bushel, 40; lettuce, Iceberg, crate
2.00a3.50: Big Boston, hamper, LISA
200; lima beans, bushel, 300a32 25;
mushrooms. 4-quart basket, 50a75:
onions, 50-pound sack, 85al 40; peas,
bushel, z.s0a3.00 peppers, crate, 2.50a
400; rhubarb, box, 75al00; spinach,
bushel. 1l0al 25; nearby, bushel, l00a
l.25; tomatoes, lug, 1.5Oa3.75; turnips,
nearby, purple tops. half bushel, 15a
20; yellows, per 100 pounds, 60a65;
apples. bushel, 35a1 Is; box, 1.40a2 90;
cranberries, quarter r-barrel box, 225a
3,00 eighth barrel box, l40a1 65;
grapefruit. box, 175a250; oranges,
box, l.50a250; tangerines, half box,
100a175.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Chickens, Rocks,
pound, 23a25; mixed colors, lSa23
fowl, Rocks, 20a22; mixed colors, 15a
2l; Leghorns, HALT; roosters, l2al4;
ducks, 16a20; geese, 17a22; guineas,
each, 40a60 turkeys, pound, 1926
Egg6-Current receipts, dozen, ara
%, whites, large. 30a31; bedium, 25a
27; receipts, 1886 cases
Butter-Prints, pound, 4la42: good
to fancy, creamery, 38a39; rolls, 80;
packing stock, 26; receipts. 387 tubs.
Sea Food Market.
Cat fish, rough, pound, S; dressed,
IL. carp. 8; eels, 12a15; mackerel,
22a25; white perch, Is; yellow perch,
Is; trout, frozen, 8; spots, frozen, s;
pike, 25; blue fish, 20; founders, 15a
l8; croakers, 5a8; rock, 15a20; butter
fish, frozen, l2; crab meat, 45a90;
shrimp. 25; scallops, 40: clans. large.
per 100, l.25; cherrystones, LOO; little
necks, 85; oysters, bushel, 2.25a2.75;
gallon, l25a250.
Tobacco Market.
The market for Maryland leaf to-
bacco continues inactive, with both
receipts and sales showing declines,
and prices remain unchanged at the
following quotations: Maryland firm
leaf, nondescript, 4; common, 4a12:
medium, l3a30; good to fine, red, 31a
40. Seconds-Common, 4a10 medium,
l1a20 good to fine, 21a39. Unsound
and badly mixed packages from 2 to 3
lower.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle, 1875; demand rather indiffer-
ent for small available supply; no ac-
ton as yet on few holdover steers;
scattered sales she stock around steady
with Monday; few slaughter heifers
6.00a6.60: low cutter and cutter grades
of cows, 3.50a5.00
Calves, so; steady with Monday;
I'd grade vealers principally 12.O0a
1880; lesser grades mainly 6.OOa11 90.
Hogs, $50; mostly 10 cents lower
than Monday; good and choice grades
l20 to 200 pounds, 8.70a9 90: practical
top, 900; 210 to 240 pounds 8.50a
800; $50 to 800 pounds, s.1Oa8. so;
few weightier butchers below 800;
good grade packing sows, 7.l0a7.60:
stays quoted around $50 downward.
Rail arrivals having through billing
benefit above quotations; hogs from
doubtful areas and those fattened on
garbage or swill not represented In
above prices.
Sheep, 1875; lamb market steady with
bulk sales Monday: top 25 cents under
extreme peak price yesterday; deck
go-d and choice 8O-pound eve and
wether lambs and small lot 68-pound
average, 1880; fat bucks 100 less;
few throwouts, 6.00a8.5O; few head
old thin sheep, 15Oa2.5O; fat slaugh-
ter ewes quoted stead, from 4.00a5. 90.
Grain Market.
Opening prices we're: Wheat, No. 2,
red, winter. sarlicky, spot, domestic, 81;
December delivery, 81. Settling prices
were: Wheat No. 2. red, winter, gar
licky, spot, domestic, 97A; December
delivery, 97A. Corn, No. 2, yellow,
domestic, 661aa68; Western billing at
premium over this price. Cob corn,
nominal. Oats, No. 2, white, domestic,
42a45; No. 3, 41a44; Pacific Coast No.
white oats, 70. Except grain on track
there is an additional charge of IA
cents a bushel for storage and eleva-
ton on all sales of oats. Rye, No. 2,
90a95. Barley, 70a75. Hay quiet, un-