Evening star., 1937-08-31
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Nd, August 3l.-Po-
tatoes, per l00-pound sack, 80al. 90;
California. 100-poung sack, 275a2 80;
sweet potatoes, bushel, 50a1.l5; beans,
bushel ,60al.25; nearby, bushel. 30a
LIS; beets, dozen punches, 25a30;
nearby, bunch, 2a3; cabbage, bushel,
30a50; carrots, New York, crate, 75a
1.25; Pennsylvania, dozen punches, 80
ass; nearby, bunch, 2a3; celery, crate,
l.50a2.25; corn, nearby, sugar, dozen,
10a20; cucumbers, bushel, 25al 90;
eggplants, nearby, half bushel, 35a50;
lettuce, California, Iceberg, crate, 3.75
a425; Eastern, Big Boston, crate, 100
a1.25; lima beans, bushel, 6Oal.5O;
onions, 50-pound sack, s0a1.75; peas,
bushel ,1.50a1.75; peppers, nearby, half
bushel, l5a25; squash, nearby, half
bushel, 40a60; tomatoes, nearby. half
bushel 10a50; Gamers stock, bushel,
35; apples. bushel. 5Oa1O0; box, 1.eo;
cantaloupes. nearby, Long Johns. half
bushel, 15a4o; round, half bushel, 2oa
30: culls. half bushel. 10al5; Califor-
mia, crate. 1.65a45O; honey dews.
crate. l50a225; peaches, bushel, IS
al.40; nearby, half bushel. l5a50;
pears, bushel, l.00A1.50; Persian mel
ons, crate. 1.ooal.75; watermelons,
each, 3a30.
Dairy Market.
Live poultry - Chickens. Rocks,
pound, 27a28; mixed colors, 26a27:
Leghorns. 23a25; fowl, Rocks, 22a23;
mixed colors, 20a21; Leghorns, 14a1e;
roosters. 12al4; ducks, Halls.
Eggs-Current receipts, dozen, ala
%; hennery, whites, large, 26a2s; me-
dium, 23a24: receipts, 1902 cases.
Butter-Prints. pound, 3417a361a:
good to fancy, creamery. 331aa35;
packing stock, 81; rolls, Is; receipts,
$50 tubs.
Live Stock.
Cattle-l25 offerings principally
COWS; scattered sales steady, but un-
dertone weak; low cutter, cutter and
common COWS, 400a550: other classes
quotable nominally steady with Mon
day; grass fat cows mainly 550a750,
grain feds quotable to 8 90 and above;
bulk steers so far this week, l050a
1910; load 1880 pounds, 1878; COM
mon down to 500; slaughter heifers,
65oalo00; plain and medium bulls.
550a7 90; fat butcher kinds to a. 90
or above.
Calves-l00: steady with bulk sales
Monday; good grade vealers. 1l50a
1900. latter price paid rather spar
ingly and mostly on early rounds;
plain and medium grades principally,
900all.00; weighty grass fat calves,
8OOal0.00.
Hogs-350; mostly IS cents lower
than Monday; packing sows off 10
cents; good and choice, ITO to 2l0
pounds, 12.05al2.30; practical top,
1890; 220 to $50 pounds, 1l60a12 90;
26o to 300 pounds. quoted 10. 0.50al1.20;
l4o to l60 pounds, 1l45all.7o; 100 to
lao pounds, 10.85all.35; good grade
sows. 9.50al000; stays quoted from
around $50 down. Hogs from doubt
full areas and those fattened on
garbage or swill not represented in
above prices.
Sheep-35o; Spring lambs opening
fully steady, quality and sorts con-
sidered; merely good to choice ewes
and wethers, ll.40a1l60: stable lot
strictly choice held higher; bucks LOO
less; plain and medium grades mainly
7.50a9.5 so; odd head weighty slaughter
ewes, 400 down, handy weights
eligible to so cents; old thin sheep,
1.5Oa2.00.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat-No. 2
red Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
lo7a4: August delivery, l.07s4. Set
ting prices were: Wheat, No. 2 red
Winter, garlicky, spot, domestic, lo7la;
August delivery, 1.071a. Sale Of car
goes on grade, l07l2, 1852, l.031a
and 1.1012, respectively, for Nos. 2, 3,
4 and S red Winter, garlicky. Corn
No. yellow, domestic, Ito; Western
billing at a premium over this price;
cob corn nominal Oats-No white
domestic, 55a70; No 3, 54a69 Except
grain on track there is an additional
charge of III cents per bushel for
storage and elevation on all sales of
nate Puo-No na~1>r