Evening star., 1937-07-08
Baltimore Markets
Srecial Dispatch to The Star.

srecial Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, July 8.-Pota-
toes, barrel, 16oal75; 100 pound sack,
l.00a2.4O, sweet potatoes. bushel, 5Oa
1.25; yams, bushel 50a90; beans,
bushel, 50al.00; nearby, bushel, 75a
100, beets, nearby, bunch, 112a2;
cabbage, round type, bushel, 25a4o;
carrots, California, crate, 450a475,
nearby, bunch, 4a5; celery, crate, LISA
400; corn. crate, 75al.l0; nearby,
dozen, l2al5; cucumbers, bushel, 35a
go; nearby, half bushel, 25a35; egg
plants, crate, l.50al.75: bushel, 75a
100: lettuce. California Iceberg,
crate. 25oa375: Eastern, Big Boston,
crate, 40a60; lima beans, bushel. 2O0a
2.75; onions, 50-pound sack, SOal 40;
peas, bushel, l.50a2.0o: peppers,
bushel, 9oal.25: crate. 1.25a2.00:
squash, nearby. half bushel 2oa3o;
spinach. nearby. half bushel, 40a50
tomatoes, lug, 75al50; nearby. half
bushel, 75al.25 apples, bushel, 5oa
l.25; blackberries. crate, 175a350;
nearby, crate. 250a300; cantaloupes,
crate, 50a3.75; bushel, packed locally,
50a75; Honeyballs, crate. 3.25a375;
Honeydews. crate. 175a225; buckle
berries, quart, l0al5; oranges. box,
2.75a5.00; peaches, bushel, l.75a275;
half bushel, 75al so; raspberries, black,
quart, llal3; red, pint, 5as; water
melons, each, 20a35.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-Broilers, Rocks, pound,
20a23; mixed colors, 20a22; Leghorns,
l5al9; fowl. Rocks. 20a22; mixed COL
ors, 1920; Leghorns, l4als; rooeters,
loal2; ducks, l2al4.
Eggs-Current receipts, dozen, goa
%; hennery, white, large. 24a26; me-
dium, 22a23; receipts, 1872 cases.
Butter-Prints, pound, 34a35: good
to fancy, creamery, 32a33; packing
stock, l6al7; rolls, lsa2o; receipts,
1,543 tubs
Live Stock Market.
Cattle. 900, including $50 holdovers;
medium and good grades steers scaling
from 1000 to 1920 pounds. strong to
Is cents higher, selling mostly from
II l0a1300: plain grasserS, slow,
steady. selling down to 900 and be-
low; she stock, weak to lower; load
grain on grass heifers, 1918; other
scattered sales, heifers, 650a1O 90;
COWS, slow, IS cents or more lower:
bulk low cutters and cutters, 400a5 rs; ;
plain and medium grade fat COWS,
550a625; bulls, unevenly steady to
weak; plain and medium grades, $50
al 90. mostly.
Calves, 275; vealers, steady to
strong: good grade. 10.00alO.50, most
ly: plain and medium, 75oa9 $50.
Hogs. 800; mostly steady with We'd
nesday: pigs. 10 cents higher; good
and choice. ITO to 2lo pounds, 1900
al325; practical top 1925: 22o to
$50 pounds. 12.50al3 90; $50 to 300
pounds. l2ooa12.50; 140 to l60 pounds
l2.75a13 90; 12o to 14o pounds. l20oa
1880; good sows, 10.75all25; hogs
from doubtful areas not represented
in above prices.
Sheep. 1900; generally fully steady
with Wednesday; good and choice, IS
to 80 pound eve and wether Spring
lambs, l125al200; bulk sales around
1150all.75; bucks discounted LOO un-
der comparable grades ewes and
wethers; plain and medium grades,
8.00a1l.00; mostly. 900al050; fat
clipped slaughter ewes steady, from
400 downward; old, thin sheep, $50
a200.
Grain Market.
Opening prices we're: Wheat-No. 2
red Winter. garlicky. spot. domestic.
l.22. Settling prices we're: No. red,
Winter, garlicky, spot. domestic.
l.2ll2. Corn-No. 2 yellow, domestic,
40; Western billing at a premium
over this price; cob corn. nominal.
Oats-No. 2 white, domestic. 62a72;
No. 3, 61a7l: with the exception Of
grain on track, there is an additional
charge Of III cents per bushel for