Evening star., 1937-08-24
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, August "a
Potatoes, l00-pound sack, 65a90; sweet
potatoes, bushel. 50al Is; beans, bushel,
5Oa75; nearby, bushel, 6Oal 90; beets,
dozen punches. 25a30; nearby, bunch,
lka2h; cabbage, round, bushel. 3oa
60: carrots, California, crate. l.25a
4.50; Pennsylvania, dozen punches, 30a
IS: bushel, l.O0al1O; nearby, bunch,
l12a3; celery, crate, 4Oal so; corn,
nearby, sugar, dozen. 20a25; cucum-
bers. bushel, 75al so; nearby. half
bushel, 25a40, eggplants, nearby, half
bushel, 25a35; lettuce, California, Ice
berg, crate, 2.75a4.25; Eastern, Big
Boston, crate, 100; lima beans, bushel,
75al.65: onions. 50-pound sack. 85a
1.65; peas, bushel, l.50al.85; peppers,
busilel. 50a60: nearby, half bushel, 20
a25; squash. nearby, half bushel, 35
a5O; spinach, bushel, 100; tomatoes
nearby, half bushel, 25a65; apples,
bushel, 50a90; box, l6O; cantaloupes,
nearby, Long Johns half bushel, l5a
40; round, half bushel, 15a25; culls,
half bushel, 10; grapes. l2-quart bas-
ket, IS; honey dews, crate, 1.75a2 90;
peaches. bushel, 5oa2 90: pears, bushel,
1.25al.75; Persian melons, crate, 1.4Oa
LIS; watermelons, each, 2a25.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Chickens, Rocks.
pound, 27a28; mixed colors, 26a27:
Leghorns, 23a25; fowl, Rocks, 21a22;
mixed colors, 20a2l; Leehorns, Halls;
ROSTERS, l2al4 ducks. Halls.
Eggs-Current receipts, dozen, 2la
q; hennery whites, large. 26a2s: me-
dium. 23a24; receipts. l sos cases.
Butter-Prints. pound, 34a36; good
to fancy. creamery, 33a34l2; packing
stock, 2l: rolls. IS; receipts, 327 tubs.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-30o: offerings mostly cows
selling around steady with Monday;
grass fat cows mainly 6.00ae so: low
cutter and cutters, 45Oa5 so: shelly
kinds down to 400: bulk grass fat
steers this week. 050al2.5o: load
l,18o pounds. 1900: scattered sales
heifers from 1880 down; few fat COWS
to $40; plain and medium bulls,
S.50a725
Calves-75: steady with Monday;
good grade vealers. II 0Oall so;
mostly; plain and medium, 850alO.50.
Hogs-25o: demand apparently very
weak, mostly 35 cents lower than
Monday; pigs off As cents: good and
choice, 10 to 2lO pounds. Hasa
l2.70; practical top, 1910; 220 to $50
pounds, 12.00al245; 26O to 300 pounds,
quoted lo90all go; l4O to l6o pounds,
l2.lOal2.35. l20 to l40 pounds. ii 55a
1900; good grade packing sows. 9S5a
1895; hogs from doubtful areas and
those fattened on garbage or swiu not
represented in above prices
Sheep-l25; steady, quality and
sorts considered; trucked in good and
choice eve and wether Spring lambs
1l.00all.25; bucks. 100 less; plain
and medium quoted 75Oa9 so; slaugh-
ter ewes from 4.50 down, mostly kinds
to sell from 2.Soa40o old thin sheep,
1.50a2 90.
Grain Market.
Opening prices we're: Wheat-No.
2 red Winter, garlicky, spot. domestic,
l.09a; August delivery, 109A. Set
ting prices were: Wheat. No. red
Winter, garlicky. spot. domestic, 1.09;
August delivery, 100.
Sales of cargoes on grade, l 90, LOT,
LOS and l03 respectively for numbers
2, 3. 4 and 5 red Winter. garlicky.
Corn-No. 2 yellow domestic, 1.12.
Western billing at premium over this
price; cob corn nominal. Oats-No. 2
white, domestic. 55a70: No. 3, 54a69,
except grain on track there is an
additional charge of ~ cents per
bushel for storage and elevation on
all sales Of oats. Rye-No. 2, 75a8O.
Barley-70a75.
Hay-Receipts Of new hay 20 far
have been too light to establish grades
or prices. For good old timothy,
clover and mixed hay the market
holds steady at SIT to $22 per ton.
Poor grades of hay are hard to sell
and the market is irregular on all
grades below No. 8.
StraW-Demand for new straw is
showing an improvement and the