Evening star., 1937-09-01
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

California. 100-pound sack, 2.75a2.90:
sweet potatoes, bushel, 50a1l5; beans,
bushel, 75a85; nearby. bushel, 60al.15;
beets. dozen, punches. 25a3O: nearby
bunch, 117a2l2; cabbage, bushel,
25a50; carrots. California, crate,
3.75a4.50; New York, bushel, l.00al15;
dozen punches. 30a35; nearby. bunch,
112a3; celery, crate. l.25a2.00 corn,
nearby. sugar, dozen, l0a20; cucum-
bers, bushel, 25al.10; caulif1ower.
crate, l65al75; eggplants. nearby.
half bushel, 40a60: lettuce, California,
iceberg, crate, 375a425; Eastern, big
Boston, crate. 100; lima beans bushel.
l.00a2.00 onions, per 50-pound sack,
80al.75; peas, bushel, 150al85; pep
pers, nearby, half bushel, 15a3O;
squash, nearby. half bushel. 40a6O;
tomatoes, nearby. half bushel, lOa5O;
Gamers stock, bushel, l5O; apples,
bushel, 50al 90; box, $50; cantaloupes,
nearby, long Johns. half bushel, Isaac;
round, half bushel, 20a3O; culls, half
bushel, l0al5; California, crate,
l,65a450; grapes. l2-quart basket,
35a40: honey dews, crate, l5Oa225;
peaches, bushel, 50al25; nearby, half
bushel, l5a50; pears, bushel, LOCAL so;
Persian nelson, crate, lO0al75;
watermelons, each, 3a25.
Dairy Market.
Live poultry Chickens. Rocks,
pound, 27a28; mixed colors, 26a27;
Leghorns. 23a25; fowls. Rocks, 24a25;
mixed colors, 22a23; Leghorns, l5al8;
ROSTERS. l3al5; ducks. Halls.
Eggs - Current receipts, dozen,
21a22: hennery whites, large. 27a29;
medium, 23a24; receipts, 3,14s cases.
Butter-Prints. pound. 34a36; good
to fancy. creamery. 33a3412; packing
stock, 81; rolls, Is; receipts, 2,302 tubs.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-900; fully steady market
on all classes steers fairly active; sew
eral loads, LOTS to 1880 pounds grass
fat steers, 1200al400; medium, l,l50
pounds, l.50; load. LOTS pounds plain
and medium mixed, 110O: odd head
good weighty heifers up to 1000;
grass fat cows mainly 5.50a75O; odd
head to 800; low cutters and cut
ters, 400a5 90; plain and medium
bulls. 5.50a7.0o good butcher bulls to
500.
Calves-100; steady; good grade
vealers, ll.50a1200, mostly; plain and
medium grades, 9.ooal1 90; grass fat
weighty calves, 1000 down.
Hogs-475; mostly 10 to 20 cents
lower than Tuesday; packing sows and
few weighty butchers unchanged; good
and choice 18O to 220 pounds, l2.00a
1920: practical top, 1920; 230 to $50
pounds. l150al190; 260 to 300
pounds quoted 105Oal1.OO $50 to ITO
pounds, 1125a1150: 12O to 40
pounds. 10.75al1.l5; good grade pack
ing sows, 9.50al0.00: stays from around
s,75 down. Hogs from doubtful areas
not represented in above prices
Sheep-250; around steady with
Tuesday; trucked in good and choice
grades Spring lambs, 1l5O down;
strictly choice absent and quotable
| upwards ll.50; bucks, 81 under COM
parable grades ewes and wethers;
plain and medium grades. 7.50a1o.00
slaughter ewes nominal; handy
weights quotable from $50 down; old
thin sheep, 150a200.
Tobacco Market.
Receipts of Maryland leaf tobacco
have shown a slight decline the pas,
few weeks and despite continued &C.
tivity in sales the market rules easy
with values mostly in buyers favor
The rainy weather last week, coupled
with high humidity, has affected to-
hacco stored in barns although moi
seriously, mostly in turning darker
color, while some tobacco still in the
fields also suffered from the heavy
rains, according to reports received
here. However, the late tobacco has
been helped by the rains and 1t Is 9
little too early to predict whether the
1887 crop as q whole has been hurt
more than it has been helped. Quo
tations Of Maryland tobacco, per
pound: Maryland firm leaf, nom
descript, 4: common, 4a12; medium
13a30; good to fine, red. 31a40; second
common, 4a10; medium, 1la20; good
to fine, 21a38.
Sea Food Market.
Cat fish, per pound, Sat; dressed,
a10; carp, 3a4; eels, 10a12; haddock,
1oa15; mackerel, 5a6; white perch, "a
10; yellow perch, 10a12; trout, S; blue
fish, 10a12: founders, 10a12; croak-
ers, 5a6; rock, 12a15; spots, 5a6; hard
heads, 5a6; butter fsh, 6as; soft crabs,
dozen, 70a1.35; hard crabs, barrel
350a 500; dozen. 25a4o; crab meat
pound, 30a45; shrimp, 10al8; clans
large, 100, 1.00a1.1o; Cherrystones
65a75; little Necks, 55a60; frogs
each, 25a36.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat-No.
red Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic.
1.os; September delivery, los. Set
ting prices were: Wheat-No. 2 red
Winter, garlicky. spot, domestic. 1.osh !;
September delivery. 10S1a. Corn
No. 2 yellow, domestic, Ito; Western
billing at . premium over this price;
cob corn nominal. Oats-No. white,
domestic, 55a7o; No. 3, 54a69; except
grain on track there u an additional
charge Of ~ cents per bushel for
storage and elevation on all sales Of
oats. Rye-No. 2, 75as0. Barley
70a75.
Hay-Receipts Of new hay 10 far
have been too light to establish grades
or prices. For good old timothy,
clover and mixed hay the market
holds steady at $17 to $27 per ton.
Poor grades Of hay are hard to sell
and the market irregular on al grades
below No. 3.
Straw-Demand for new straw Is
showing An Improvement and the