Evening star., 1937-10-09
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, October g.
per 10O-pound stack. 75a
l 90; sweet potatoes, bushel, 40a75;
nearby, half bushel, 25a30; yams
bushel, 75as0; beans, bushel, 60a1 90;
beets, dozen punches, 25a30; nearby
bunch, 2a3 cabbage, bushel, 35a60;
5O-pound sack, 5Oa60; ton, 1000; car
rots, bushel, 75a85; dozen punches,
30a35: California, crate, 2.75a325;
nearby, bunch. 2a3; brussels sprouts,
quart. 12l7al4; drum, 275a325;
cauliflower, crate, 1.5Oa3.O 90; celery
crate, 15oa20O; corn. nearby, sugar
dozen. sails; field. dozen, l0a12: GU
cumbers, bushel. 1OOa3.00; lettuce,
California, Iceberg, crate, 20Oa3.0 90:
Big Boston, crate, 35a4o: lima beans
bushel, 200a3 90: mushrooms, %-quart
basket. 40as0; onions, 5O-pound sack,
75al.50; peas. bushel, 275a3 90; pep
pers, bushel. 25a50; nearby, half
bushel, 35a40; tomatoes. California
lug. 5Oal.5O; New York, 12-quart
basket, 25a50; nearby, half bushel,
20a50; turnipe, nearby, purple tops,
half bushel. 25a5o; apples. bushel. 25a
] 90; box. 1O0a200 cranberries, quar-
ter barrel box. 2.75a3.25: eighth barrel
box. 14oal65; grapefruit, box, LISA
800: grapes. IL two-auart basket
carton, 1.50a1 65; 12-quart basket,
40a5o: honey dews. crate, 1.25a1. 40;
oranges. box. 300a475: peaches,
bushel. s5al75; pears, Bartlett. bushel.
1.25al.75; seckel. bushel, 1.5oa2.25;
prunes, half bushel, LOCALS
Dairy Markets.
Live poultry-ChickenS Rocks.
pound. 22a26; mixed colors, 20a25
Leghorns. 20a22: fowl. Rocks, 24a25:
mixed colors. 2Oa23: Leehorns. 15a17;
ROSTERS. 12a14; ducks, 17a2o; guineas,
each. 40a70.
Eges-Current. receipts. dozen, 27a
%: whites, large. 35a36; medium, 3Oa
33; receipts, s5s cases
Butter-Prints, pound. 37a38: good
TO fancy. creamery, 35s36; rolls. 27a
%; packing stock, IS; receipts. 1857
tubs.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-200: compared with Friday
last week; unevenly steady to IS cents
lower market on all slaughter classes
represented; steers mostly medium tr
low, good grades 900 to l,l00 pounds
at 850a1l50; two loads good 1.12j
pounds, 1900; few head 1850 pounds
1925; heifers mainly 650a9 90. ode
head to 1000: plain and medium fat
cows. 550a6 so, few to 700 and above:
strictly good weighty beef type absent;
low cutters and cutters. 400a500:
shelly kinds down to 800; plain and
medium bulls, 550a70O. mostly under
700; stockers and feeders steady but
light weights closing slow.
Calves-25; compared with close
last week. steady; good grade vealers
l0.50all.00. mostly: Gull. plain and
medium mainly 6oOa1ooo; weight,
grass calves slow, mainly from
6.00a900.
Hogs-250; steady with Friday anc
mostly IS to IS cents lower than week
ago; good and choice ITO to 22C
pounds. 1l50a1l.80; practical top
1180: 140 to 160 pounds. 1130a III so;
100 to 140 pounds. 10.75a1l25; 23O tc
$50 pounds butchers quoted lI.25s
1l.60: 260 to 300 pounds. 10 5Oa 90
good grade sows. 9 50a10 90; stays from
around $50 down; hogs from doubtful
areas and those fattened on garbage
or swill not represented in above
quotations.
Sheep-50: compared with weel
ago. supplies light and prices mostl,
unchanged; extreme top up Is cents
bulk good and choice eve and vethel
lambs, 10.50a1100; part rail decl
closely sorted. 11.25 early in week
most throwouts 6.50a9.75, good many
around 800a850; fat slaughter ewes
mostly 300a4,00; choice light weights
to 4.5o. sparingly; old thin sheer
1.50a200.
Sea Food Market.
Catfish, per pound. SAT; dressed
8a9: carp, S: eels. IL; haddock. 10;
mackerel. 5as; white perch. 8a10;
yellow perch. 10al2; trout. Sal blue
Ash. 10; founders. ea10: croakers
Sal; rock. 5a6; spots, Sal; hardheads
5a6; butterfsh. 6as; soft crabs. dozen
55a90; hard crabs, barrel, 3.50a4 90
dozen. 25a35; crab meat. pound. 22a
30; shrimp, 10al2. scallops, 16al7;
CLAIMS. large. 100. 10oa110; Cherry
stones, 65a75; Little Necks. 5sa60,
oysters, bushel, 65a75 quart, 30.
Tobacco Market.
Both receipts and sales of Maryland
leaf tobacco showed declines the past
week. the former totaling 512 hogs
heads and the latter q72 hogsheads
Prices ruled slightly higher for some
medium and good grades Quota
tions. Maryland firm leaf--Non-
descript, cents per pound: common
%al2, medium. l3a30: good to fine
red. 3la40; seconds. common. 4al0;
medium. lla2o; good to fine. 2la39.
Unsound and badly mixed packag &c,
can only be sold at discount of 2
and cents per pound.
Grain Market.
Opening prices we're: Wheat-No. 2
red Winter garlicky spot domestic
1929; October delivery, 1929. Corn
No. yellow domestic. old. 9oa95
Western billing At a premium over
this price; cob corn nominal. Oats
No. Q white domestic, 43a4s; No. 8
42a45. Pacific Coast. No. / white oats
10. Except grain on track there is an
additional charge Of Ia cents per
bushel for storage and elevation on an
sales of oats. Rye-No. 2, 85a95
Barley. 70e75. Hay and straw un-
r arood