Evening star., 1938-08-11
Baltimore Markets.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

mia. 2.4Oa25O: sweet potatoes, bushel,
l.l0al.25; beans, nearby. bushel
30a6O; cabbage. bushel, 30a35 nearby
bushel, 15a25; carrots, Western, crate,
3O0a325; nearby. bunch, 1a2; cauli-
flower, crate, 1O0al.50; celery, crate,
6Oa225: corn, nearby, dozen, 5a8;
eggplant, nearby. half bushel. 20a30;
cucumbers, nearby half bushel, 10a25;
lettuce Iceberg. Western. crate, 300a
3.75 Eastern. Big Boston, 85al.0O;
lima beans. bushel. l.00a2.75; nearby,
bushel, $50; onions, 50-pound sack,
35a75; Western, 150al75; peas,
bushel, 2COa2.25; peppers. nearby, hall
bushel, l5a20; spinach, nearby, half
bushel, 35a65; squash. nearby, half
bushel, 1Oa2O; tomatoes, nearby, half
bushel, 10a25: Gamers stock, bushel,
90; apples. bushel, 25al.00; canta-
loupes, Western, crate, l.50a200;
Eastern, crate. 25a6O bushel, 50a7O;
nearby. half bushel. 20a45; damsons,
half bushel. soa1.15; grapes. CAL
ifornia. lug, 1.25al.65; honeydews,
crate. 175a2 90; huckleberries, quart,
lOal5. oranges, box. 240a3 so; peaches
bushel, l.00a200 nearby. half bushel
6oa85; pears, bushel, ll5a125; water
melons. each. loa35; lemons, box
3.50a575.
Dairy Products.
Live poultry - Chickens, Rocks,
pound l7a20; mixed colors, l5al7:
Leghorns. 15al6; fowl. Rocks. 19a20;
mixed colors. 17al9: Leghorns, 13al4;
roosters, 12al4 ducks, 12al4.
Eggs - Nearby ungraded. dozen,
white. large. 26a28; medium, 22a24;
mixed colors, 22a23. Receipts. 1.ll9
cases.
| Butter-Prints, 90 score. pound.
| 27a27la: 80 score. 26'2a27: country
rolls. lsa2o; packing stock. l4a15. Re
ceipts, $50 tubs
! Livestock Market.
Cattle, 1900. General market slow
steers weak to 25 cents lower than
Monday; top good grade kinds close te
steady: medium and good grades, $50
to 1880 pounds, mostly s25a950; load
1890 pounds. 1926; she stock and
bulls unevenly steady to weak; load
good 9s0-pound heifers, 837i2: odd
head heifers to $50; bulk plain and
medium grade light weights, 6.00a
500; most fat cows, $50 to $50 few
to 6.75; bulk low cutters and cutters
400a5 90; shelly kinds as low as 800;
plain and medium bulls mainly 5.5oa
$50: best weighty sausage individuals
to 6.75.
Calves. IT'S. Vealers active, mostly
so cents higher than earlier this
week: good grades $50 to 1000, most
ly; plain and medium largely 7.5oa
800
Hogs, Its. Mostly Is to 25 cents
lower than Wednesday; good and
choice, 100 to 200 pounds. 900a9 20;
practical top. $40; 2l0 to 24o pounds
8.75a9.oo: $50 to 800 pounds. 785a
$50: l40 to 100 pounds, S.40a8 65;
12O to 140 pounds, 8.00a8.40; good
packing sows over 400 pounds mostly
6.25a6.75; best lightweight sows to
100; stags, SIS down. Hogs from
doubtful areas and those fattened on
garbage or swill and price premiums
occasionally paid for through billed
rail consignments purchased for re-
shipment not represented in abov!
quotations.
Sheep, l,lOO. Fat lambs steady to
weak. quality of offerings considered;
choice grade absent; good eve and
wether spring lambs mostly 900a9 25:
choice considered eligible to $50 If
available; fat bucks 100 less; large
number common and medium grade
spring lambs, 6.00a8.0o; culls down to
500: odd head good weighty slaughter
ewes, 3.O0a350; few old thin sheep
1.00a2.00.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat, No. 2
red winter, garlicky. spot, domestic
651A: August delivery, 65i2. Settling
prices we're: Wheat, No. red winter
garlicky, spot, domestic, 6434; August
delivery. 64A. Corn, No. 2 yellow
domestic, 65a68; Western billing at q
premium over this price; cob corn
nominal. Oats, No. 2 white, domestic
38a41; No. 2, 37a4O. Excepting grain
on track, there is an additional charge
of ~ cents bushel for storage and
elevation on all sales of oats. Rye, No
2, 6Oa65. Barley, 50a55. Hay, steady
ton, 12.OOa15.0O. Straw, steady, 6.00a
$50 ton.