Evening star., 1938-08-13
Baltimore Markets.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md. Aug. 13.-Pota-
toss, l0o-pound sack, 75a9o; Cali
fornia, 24Oa250; sweet potatoes.
bushel, 1.25al.4O; beans. nearby,
bushel, 30a6O: cabbage, bushel, 25a35;
nearby, bushel. 15a25; carrots, West
ern. crate. 3.25a3.50; nearby. bunch,
1a2; cauliflower, crate, 75a1.75; celery,
crate, 50a2O0; corn nearby, dozen,
5al0: eggplant, nearby half bushel,
l0a25: cucumbers, nearby. half bushel,
10a30; lettuce. Iceberg. Western,
crate. 200a375; Eastern. Big Boston.
50al 90; lima beans. bushel, l.50a2.25;
half bushel, GOAL co. onions, 50-pound
sack. 35a75; Western. l.50al.75; peas,
bushel. 2ooa2lo: peppers, nearby,
half bushel, l5a25: spinach. bushel,
125al.5O: squash, nearby. half bushe,
25a35; tomatoes, nearby, half bushel,
10a25; Gamers stock. bushel. 25a40;
apples, bushel, 25al 90; cantaloupes,
crate, l5a60; bushel, 50a65: nearby.
half bushel, 20a60; damsons. half
bushel 75aloo; grapes. California,
lug. 1.35a2.oo; honeydews, crate. LISA
400; huckleberries, quart. 1oal5;
oranges, box. 2.5oa335; peaches,
bushel, 100a2.5O: nearby, half bushel.
35a75; pears. bushel. 1.15al.25; water
melons, each, 7a30 lemons, box, 4.00a
$50.
Dairy Products.
Live poultry - Chickens. Rocks,
pound. 17a20: mixed colors. l5al7:
Leghorns. 16al7 fowl. Rocks, l9a20:
mixed colors. 17a19: Leghorns, l3a14:
roosters, 12al4; ducks 12al4.
Eggs - Nearby ungraded. dozen,
white. large, 26a28; medium. 22a24;
mixed colors, 22a23. Receipts, 633
cases
Butter-Prints. 90 score. pound, 27a
27l2: 80 score. 2612a27: country rolls,
1920; packing stock, 14al5. Receipts,
1870 tubs.
Live Stock Market
Cattle. $50. Todays market nomin-
ally steady; compared with Friday
last week: steers and she stock steady
to 25 cents lower; bulk medium and
good 900 to 1850 pound steers most
ly 825 a $50: few loads good 1897 to
1890 grassers $50 a l0.35; practical
top 1915 for 1912 pound West VT-
ginia grassers; small lot choice $50
pound grain fed yearlings ll.50, plain
and medium slaughter heifers most
ly 500 a 800; few to $50; bulk plain
and medium grades fat COWS $50
900: few good weighty beef COWS $50
a7.0O: low cutters and cutters $50
a $780, top sausage bulls 6.75.
Calves, 20. Compared with Friday
last week; vealers mostly so cents
higher; good grades on the close 950
a 1000, mostly plain and medium 76o
q 900.
Hogs, IS. Not enough on sale to
make market test; quotable steady with
Friday; compared with week ago,
weights, 100 pounds up, 80 to 80 cents
lower; light lights and pigs. 1.lOa-l.oo
off: packing sows, so to go cents lower.
Good and choice 160 to 200 pounds
ouotable 9.OOa9. 20; 210 to 240 pounds,
875ae. 90: $50 to 300 pounds, 7.85a
$50; 140 to 100 pounds, 8.40a8.65;
100 to 140 pounds, 790aS.30; good
packing sows, 6.25a7.oo, mostly 6.75
down; stays, SIS down. Hogs from
doubtful areas and those fattened on
garbage or swill and price premiums
occasionally paid for through billed
rail consignments bought for reship-
ment not represented in above prices.
Sheep, $50. Compared with Friday
last week: Spring lambs and aged
stock little changed; good and cholee
eve and wether spring lambs mostly
.0Oa9 so, trucked in offerings mainly
9.25 down; fat buck lambs at usual
l 90 discount: plain and medium grade
springers mostly 600as 90 and culls as
low as 500; good weighty slaughter
ewes principally 300a3.50; old thin
sheep, 100a200.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat No. 2
red winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
64la; August delivery, 6412. Settling
prices we're: Wheat. No. 2 red winter,
garlicky, spot. domestic, 64M; August
delivery, 64s4. Corn, No. 2 yellow,
domestic, 65a68; Western billing at
premium over this price; cob corn,
nominal. Oats, No 2 white, domestic,
3sa41; No. 2, 37a40. Excepting grain
on track, there is an additional charge
of ~ cents bushel for storage and
elevation on all sales of oats. Rye.
No. 2, e0a65. Barley, 50a55. Hay
steady; ton, 12.ooaiS.oo. Straw steady.
.00aA 80 tan.