Evening star., 1937-05-17
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star,

toes, old, 100-pound sack, 1.25al 80;
sweet potatoes, bushel. LOCAL so;
yams, busfel, 75a1.1O; asparagus,
crate, 1.25a4.00; beans, bushel, 2.50a
400; bees. bushel, 1.25al.5o cabbage.
pointed type, hamper, 1.O0al.5O; car
rots, crate, 4.00a4c5; caulifiower,
crate, 2.00a2.15; celery, crate. LISA
$50; cucumbers, bushel, 4.00a6. 90;
eggplants, crate, 2.50a325; bushel,
1.25al so; kale, nearby, blue, bushel,
25a35; lettuce, Western, Iceberg, crate,
2.50a4.25; Southern, Big Boston, ham,
per, 50al.25; lima beans, bushel, 3.OOa
500; mushrooms, 4-quart basket, 50a
30; onions, 50-pound sack, l.00a2 90;
peas, bushel, 1.0Oa225 peppers, crate,
2.0Oa4.O0; bushel 1.75a2.5O; radishes,
nearby, red tips, bunch, 1a1A: rhu-
barb, nearby, bunch, 2a4: spinach,
nearby, bushel, 25a4o; squash, bushel,
1.50a2.00; tomatoes, lug, 75a3.25; ap-
pies, bushel, l.50a250; box, 2.50a2. .65;
grapefruit, box, 20oa3.25; oranges,
box, 200a4.75; strawberries, quart,
8l2al5.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Broilers, Rocks, pound,
24a25; mixed colors, 23a24; Leghorns,
20a22; fowl, Rocks, 19a20; mixed COZ
ors, l8a19; Leghorns, 15a17; roosters,
10a12; ducks, 16al8.
Eggs-Current receipts, dozen, 10;
hennery, white, large, 20; medium, 10;
receipts, 1859 cases.
Butter-Prints, pound, 34l2a35R;
good to fancy, creamery. 33a34; pack
ing stock, 16a17 rolls, 19a23; receipts,
BIT tubs.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-65O, including 200 hold
overs steers, cows and few mixed
yearlings active at generally rs cents
higher prices than last Thursday;
bulls steady; medium and good grade
steers from 900 to 1880 pounds, 975a
11.50; few plain and medium heifers
and mixed yearlings, 8.50a9,65; odd
head good grade COWS up to 500;
plain and medium grades, 6.25a7O0;
bulk low cutters and cutters, Asa
SIS; plain and medium bulls, 5.5Oa
700.
Calves-30O; mostly so cents higher
than close last week; good grade veal
ers, lO00al0.50 mostly; plain grades.
7.50a9.50; culls down to 800 or below.
Hogs-1 800; mostly cents above
Saturday and 10 cents higher than
Friday; pigs 10 to 20 cents higher than
late last week; good and choice grades,
ITO to 2l0 pounds, 1130a1155; prac-
tical top 11.55; 22O to $50 pounds
and 40 to l60 pounds average. II 1.0Oa
1l.30; heavy weights downward to
1850 or below; 12O to 140 pounds,
10.35al0.70; god grade packing sows,
9.50a9.75; hogs from doubtful" areas
not represented in above prices.
Sheep-650, including so holdovers:
new crop lambs unevenly steady to so
cents higher than close last week;
good and choice grades Spring lambs,
13.50a14.50; trucked-in arrivals most
ly l4.00 down; plain and medium
grade throwouts, 950al225; odd head
shorn slaughter ewes, 400 down.
Sea Food Market.
Catfish, pound, 3a5; dressed, 7a8;
carp, 2a3; eels, 9a1O; haddock, 8al0;
herring. 3a4; mackerel, 8; rock, lOa
-; white perch, 6a8; yellow, 8a1O:
trout, ?a6; blueflsh, 8a10; founders,
l2al5; croakers, 4a5; spots, 4a5; hard
head, 4a5; butter fish, 5a6; roe shad,
20a22; split shad, l5a18; buck shad,
15al8; soft crabs, dozen, 7Oa1 35; hard
crabs, barrel. 3.5Oa450; crab meat,
pound, 25a45; shrimp, 15a18; clans,
large, 100, 80; cherrystone, 6Oa65;
little necks, 50a55; frogs, each, Is.
Tobacco Market.
Quotations on old stock-Maryland
firm leaf, nondescript, 3a4; common.
4a1O; medium, l0a30; good to fine,
red, 3oa40 seconds, common, 3a7;
medium, good to fine, 15a35.
Grain Market.
Opening prices we're: Wheat-No.
2, red, Winter, garlicky, spot domes-
tic. 1899; May delivery, 1884,; set
Ting prices were-wheat, No. 2. red,
Winter, gralicky. spot domestic,
1.3912; May delivery, 1872. Corn
No. 2, yellow, domestic, 124; Western
delivery at a premium over this price.
Cob corn-Nominal Oats-No. 2,
white, domestic, 64a74; No. 3, 62a73.
Except grain on track there is an
additional charge of ~ cents per
bushel on all sales of oats Rye-No.
2, 1.3Qal 35. Barley-93a98.
Hay-Market holds steady to firm
under a good demand for timothy and
clover mixed at 17.00a22.00 per ton,
but it takes well-graded No. l stock
to bring the price. Poorer grades hard
to sell and market irregular on all
grades below No. 3 stock.