Evening star., 1937-06-09
Baltimore Markets
Slecial Dispatch to The Star

toes, new, barrel, 5Oa3 90; pound
sack. l.50al60; old, l00-pound sack,
l50a2 90; sweet potatoes, bushel, 00a
$50; yams, bushel, 75al.00; aspara-
gus, crate, 100a3 25; beans, bushel,
75al.75; beets, crate, 75al 90; nearby,
bunch, 4a5; cabbage, pointed type,
hamper, 35a50; nearby. bushel, 3oa40;
carrots, crate, 5.50a5.75; caulifower,
crate, 1,25al.5O; celery. crate, 1.Ooa
400, cucumbers. bushel, l50a3 90;
eggplants, crate, 175a2 90, bushel,
100a150; lettuce, Western Iceberg,
crate, 2O0a4O0; big Boston, crate, 40a
so; nearby, Big Boston, bushel, l5a25;
Iceberg, bushel, 35a50; lima beans,
bushel. l.75a225; mushrooms, four
quart basket, 50a100; onions, So
pound sack, 40al25; peas, bUshel, 5Oa
2l5; nearby, bushel, l.00al,50; pep
pers, bushel, 225a3oO; crate, 225a
3.75; spinach, nearby, bushel, 55a90:
squash, buShel. l.50a1.75; nearby, half
bushel, LOCAL rs; tomatoes, lug, 10Oa
2.l5; apples. box, 25oa265; black
berries. crate. l50a22 cantaloupes,
crate, 3.75a5o0; grapefruit, box, 2 5Oa
$50; honeyball melons, crates, 6.25a
$50; huckleberries, quart, 15a25;
oranges, box, 250a475; peaches, halt
bushel. 50al.25; Strawberries, crate
2ooa2. so; nearby, crate, 2.O0a3 90;
Watermelons, each, 50a60.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry Broilers. Rocks
pound. 22a24; mike colors, 22a23;
Leghorns, 15ale fc9l. Rocks. l9;
mixed colors. l7al8; Leghorns, 14ale;
roosters, l0al2: ducks, l2al4
Eggs-Current receipts, dozen 49,
hennery whites, large, 81; medium
l9a20, receipts, l.247 cases
Butter-Prints, pound, 34a35; eooc
to fancy creamery, 3212a33l2; pack.
ing stock, 10; rolls, 20; receipts, 1,55:
tubs.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-l25; steady; load choice
1924 pounds steers bought to arrive
1900; some plain quality lightly
fleshed lightweights, e.25; bulk low
cutter and cutter grades of COWS
4.50a6.0o; plain and medium grades
6,25a725; demand for bulls weak, scat.
tered sales so cents lower for the
week to date; few plain and medium
grades. 550a675
Calves-75; steady: good grade
vealers. eooae5O mostly; plain ant
medium grades, 65Ga875; culls dowr
to $50 or below.
Hogs-9O0; all weights and grades
scheduled steady with Tuesday; gooc
| and choice grades. 10 to 210 pounds
! 1l.65a1l.80; practical top 11.3O; 22C
| to $50 pounds and 14O to 160 pounds
| 11.l5all 40; 26O to 300 pounds quoted
10.65al1.l5 and over 300 pounds, l0l5
al0.40; l20 to 40 pounds, 10 .5Oal0.75
good grade packing sows, 940a9 90
hogs from doubtful areas not repre-
sented in above prices.
Sheep-425; Spring lambs display
ing weak to lower tendency than
earlier this week; good and choice
trucked-in eve and wether sorts, 1880
a130o; bucks discounted 100; rail-
road double deck still unsold at nearly
| noontime: plain and medium grades
9.00al2.00: few culls under 900: odd
head fat clipped slaughter ewes steady
from 400 down.
Sea Food Market.
Catfish. pound. 3a5; dressed, 7as;
carp, 2a3; eels. eal0; haddock, 8alO;
herring. 3a4; mackerel, 6a8: rock, lOa
IL; white perch, 5a8; yellow, 8a1O;
trout. 5a6; bluefsh, 8a10; founders
loa12; croakers. 4a5; spots, 4a5; hard.
heads, 4a5; butterflsh, 5a6; soft crabs
dozen. 60a1 rs; hard crabs, barrel
350a450: crab meat, pound, 25a45;
shrimp, l5al8 CLANS. large, per 100
go; Cherrystones. 60a65; Little Necks
50a55; frogs, each, 15a25.
Tobacco Market.
Quotations on old stock-Maryland
firm leaf, nondescript, 3a4: common
4al0; medium, 10a30; good to fine, red
3oa40; seconds. common, Salt; me-
dium, good to fine, 15a35.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat. No. 2
red. Winter, garlicky. spot, domestic
1.39; settling prices were No. 2, red
Winter garlicky, spot, domestic, 1881
corn, No. 2. yellow, domestic, 1923;
Western billing at premium over
this price: cob corn nominal. Oats
No. 2, white, domestic, 63a73; No. 3
62a72, with the exception of grain or
track there is an additional charge Of
~ cents per bushel for storage anc
elevation. Rye, No. 2, 125a1 80
Barley, 91a96.
Hay market holds steady to firm
under good demand for timothy
and clover mixed at 17.00a22.00 pei
ton, but it takes well-graded No. !
stock to bring the price. Poorer grades
hard to sell and market irregular on
all grades below No. 3 stock.