Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-17
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, August 17.--Po-
tatoes, l00-pound sack, 80a95; sweet
potatoes, bushel, 65a125; beans,
bushel, 6Oa75; nearby, bushel, 5Oa90;
beets, dozen punches, 25a30; nearby,
bunch, 112a2 cabbage, round type,
bushel, 20a40; 5o-pound sack, 15a3O;
carrots, California, crate, 150a3 90;
Pennsylvania, dozen punches, 30a35;
New York and Pennsylvania, bushel,
60al.25; nearby, bunch, l2a3; cauli-
flower crate, 50a20 celery, crate,
25a185, corn, nearby, sugar, dozen,
l0al3: cucumbers, bushel, 50a1.25;
elephants, nearby, half bushel, 25a35;
lettuce. California, Iceberg, crate,
3.00a425; Eastern, Big Boston, crate,
40a50; Lima beans, bushel, 1.50a2 SO;
onions, 50-pound sack, 65a1.75; peas,
bushel. 1.50a200; peppers. nearby,
half-bushel, 2Oa30; squash, nearby,
half-bushel, 25a35: spinach. bushel,
100; tomatoes, nearby, half-bushel,
l5a50; Gamers stock, bushel, 40;
apples, bushel, 65a1o0; cantaloupes,
packed locally, bushel. 40a50; crate,
25a100; nearby, Long Johns. half
bushel, 40a55: round, half -bushel, 25a
40; culls, half-bushel, 10a20; grapes,
12-quart basket, 40a50; honeydeWs,
crate, 125a1.75; peaches, bushel, 5oa
ESQ: nearby -bushel, 15a60;
pears, bushel, ITS; watermelons, each,
2a25.
Grain Market.
Live poultry-Young Rocks, pound,
27a28; mixed colors, 26a27; Leghorns,
23a25; fowl, Rocks, Plaza; mixed coll
ors, 2Oa21; Leghorns, 14al6; boosters,
12al4; ducks, l4al5.
Eggs-Current receipts, dozen, Ola
%; hennery whites, large, 26a28; me-
dunn. 23a24; receipts, 1,904 cases.
Butter-Prints, pound, 34a35; good
to fancy, creamery, 32a33; packing
stock, 10; rolls, 90; receipts, 400 tubs
Live Stock Market.
Cattle, 275: offerings mostly COWS
selling fully steady with Mondays
steady to 25 cents higher market;
grass, fat, 600a7 so; bulk low cutter
and cutters, 4.50a5.50; emaciated
kinds, AIS and less; medium and good
grades steers SO far this week. 11.25a
400; plain and medium heifers, $50
a950; plain and medium bulls, 5.50a
700.
Calves, rs; steady with Monday; good
grade vealers, 1050a11 90; plain and
medium grades. S0Oa10OO; weighty
grass calves, dull; few, 7ooaeO0.
Hogs. $50; mostly rs cents lower
than Monday; good and choice, ITO to
210 pounds, 13.20a13.45; top. 13.45
22O to $50 pounds, 12.70a1320; $50 to
800 pounds, l165a1235 140 to 100
pounds, II 95al3 20; 100 to 14o pounds,
IL. 45a12 IS; good grade packing sows,
106Oal110; stays quoted from around
900 downward; hogs from doubtful
areas and those fattened on garbage
or swill not represented in foregoing
prices.
Sheep, 200; around steady with
Monday, scarcely enough good and
choice eve and wether lambs to make
market test, but demand apparently
| narrow; few small lots, 10.50a11 90;
few good buck lambs, 1925 down; plain
| throwouts mostly 800a85 sheep
nominal; fat, aged ewes quotable from
$50 down.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were-Wheat, No. 2
red. Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
lie; August delivery. ll6. Settling
| prices were-Wheat, No. 2, red, Win
ter, garlicky, spot, domestic, 1.l7A;
August delivery, 11734. Sales of car
| goes on Grade lib, 1.16, LA and l.12,
respectively, for numbers 2, 3, and
red, Winter, garlicky.
Corn, No. 2, yellow. domestic, LA;
Western billing at a 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 "a
cents per bushel for storage and eleva-
ton on all sales of oats.
Rye, No. 2, 75a80; barley, 70a75.
Hay and straw unchanged.
Sea Food Market.
Catfish, per pound, 5a6; dressed,
8a10; carp, BAD; eels, 8al0; paddock,
o.