Evening star., 1937-08-21
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star

onbA AN1ONE, Mu., august IL
Potatoes, 1Oo-pound sack, 75a95;
sweet potatoes. bushel, 25al .25; beans
bushel. 25all0; nearby. bushel, Goa
IS; beets. dozen punches, 25; nearby.
bunch, ll2a2l2; cabbage, round,
bushel, 20a40; carrots. California,
crate, l.50a3.00; Pennsylvania, dozen
punches, 35; bushel, 85a1.l5; nearby,
bunch, 112a3; celery, crate, 4Oal.7 rs;
corn. nearby, sugar, dozen, sails; Gu
cumbers, bushel, 60al.25; nearby, half
bushel, 25a40; eggplants, nearby, half
bushel. 25a35; lettuce, California, Ice
berg, crate, 2.75a3.75; Eastern, Big
Boston, crate. 40a85; lima beans,
bushel, 5Oa225; onions, 5O-pound
sack, 60al 65; peas, bushel, l5Oal 80:
peppers, bushel, 40a50; nearby, half
bushel, l5a25; squash, nearby, half
bushel, 35a40; spinach, bushel, lis;
tomatoes, nearby, half bushel, l5a50;
Gamers stock, bushel, 35a40; apples
bushel, 50al co. box, 60al IS; canta-
loupes. nearby, Long Johns, half
bushel, l5a35; round, half bushel, 15a
25; culls. half bushel, 8al0; grapes,
l2-quart basket, 40: 2-quart basket,
l0al2; honeydews, crate, l25a2 90;
peaches, bushel, 50a200 nearby, half
bushel. l0a50; pears, bushel, 75a1.75;
Persian melons, crate, l40al75; wa
termelons, each. 2a25.
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry - Chickens, Rocks,
pound, 27a28; mixed colo-s, 26a27;
Leghorns, 23a25; fowl, Rocks. 2la22;
mixed colors, 20a21; Leghorns, Halls;
roosters, l2al4 ducks, Halls.
Eggs-Current receipts. dozen, 2la
%; hennery whites, large, 26a2S; me-
dium, 23a24; receipts, 1892 cases.
Butter-Prints, pound, 34a35; good
to fancy, creamery, 32a33; packing
stock, 10; rolls, 20; receipts, 897 tubs
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-e00; compared with Friday
last week, steers selling around 1900
up; scarce and around steady; low
good and medium grades mostly Is
cents lower; plain kinds so cents or
more of; bulk medium and good
1000 to 1850 pounds, 1050al35 so;
West Virginias scaling 1886 pounds,
l400, and l,430 pounds, 1425; plain
grades, 800al000 mostly; she stock
steady to weak; weeks top heifers,
ll00, weight. 1000 pounds; most
others, 6.50a9 SO; bulk grass fat cows,
550a800 few to $50, and individual
grain feds to 9.25; low cutters and cut
ters, 4.5oa5 so; shelly kinds. 400 down;
plain and medium bulls steady, from
550a700.
Calves, so; compared with close last
week, vealers so cents lower through
out the week; good grades, 10 50a1 90;
plain and medium. 800aloOs: weighty
grass calves, 700s900; low cutter
kinds down to 500.
Hogs-300; nominally steady with
Friday and mostly so to 10 cents lower
than close last week; good and choice
grades ITO to 2l0 pounds quotable
l300al3,20; practical top, 1920; 22O
to $50 pounds, 12.45a12s5; $50 to
300 pounds, 1l40a1210: 14O to $50
pounds. l260al285; 120 to 14O pounds
12.10a12.60; good packing sows, 1895
a10.S5; stays from 800 down; hogs
from doubtful areas and those fat
tened on garbage or swill not rep
resented in above prices.
Sheep-450; good and choice grades
Spring lambs steady to rs cents higher
than close last week, with late un-
dertone weak; bulk eve and wether
sorts, 50all25, few to 11.6O early
this week, but late quotable top, IL so;
bucks, 90 less; plain and medium
grades under pressure and closing
weak to lower, mostly 700a9.OO;
slaughter ewes steady, from 450 down,
mostly kinds to sell from 2.5Oa4.OO;
old, thin sheep, 150a200.
Grain Market.
Wheat-No. 2 red Winter, garlicky,
spot domestic, l.0sl2; August delivery,
1.O81s.
Corn-No. yellow, 112. 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 IN
cents per bushel for storage and ele-
vation on all sales of oats.
Rye-No. 2, 75a80 Barley-70a75.
Hay and straw unchanged