Evening star., 1939-07-08
Baltimore Markets

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BALTIMORE, Md, July s.-Po-
tatoes, 100-pound sack, 2.25a2. so;
new, barrel, 350a400; 1O0-pound
sacks, 1.90a2.25; sweet potatoes,
bushel, 75a1.50; new, 2OOa2 so; yams,
bushel, 75a1.25; beans, bushel, near
by, 65a90; beets, nearby, bunch,
1Ra2; cabbage, nearby, bushel, 25a
so; carrots, Western, crate. 225a
800; cauliflower, crate, 1.75a2.0o;
celery, crate, 100a325; corn, crate,
'5Oa1 rs; dozen, 12a20; nearby, dozen,
15a18; cucumbers, bushel, 75al.5O;
nearby, Y bushel, 4Oa65; eggplant,
bushel, 75a1.50; nearby, u bushel,
LOCAL rs; lettuce, crate, Big Boston,
60a85; Western, Iceberg, 3.00a4.50;
lima beans, bushel, 250a350; onions,
50-pound sack, 50a150: peas, bushel,
1.00a175; peppers, bushel, 1.0Oa2.OO;
radisheS, basket. red tips, 30a40;
spinach, bushel, 50a85; squash, near
by, y bushel. 10a20; tomatoes, lug,
50al.5O; nearby, u bushel, 65a1 .25;
apples bushel, old, 75a1.75; new, 50a
125; apricots, lug, 1.00a1.75; black
berries, crate, 1.50a3.25; cantaloupes,
Western, crate, 2.5Oa3.O0; Southern,
50a1. 90; cherries, lug, 125a2.00;
grapefruit, box, 100a200; honey
balls, crate, 2.5Oa3.25; honeydews,
crate, l.50a2.00: huckleberries, quart,
10al3; blue, pint. 8a10; lines, carton,
100a1.25: oranges, Florida, box, LISA
325; California, 20Oa350; peaches,
u bushel, 50a1.50; plums, crate 1.25
a2.00; lemons, box, 2.50a4.50; rasp-
berries, pint, red, SAT; black, quart,
8a10; watermelons, each, 25a35.
Dairy Products.
Live poultry - Chickens, Rocks,
pound, 18a22; mixed colors. 18a2O;
fowl. Rocks. 18a19; mixed colors, 16a
18; Leghorns, 14a16; roosters, 7a12;
ducks, Pekin, 12al4.
Eggs-Nearpy, ungraded, dozen,
white, large, 20a22; medium, 17a19;
mixed colors, 16a17: receipts, lat
cases.
Butter-Prints, 90 score, pound,
q; 80 score, 25; country rolls, Tia
18; packing stock, Halls; receipts,
1924 tubs.
Livestock Market.
Cattle, So Compared with Friday
last week, fed steers strong to shade
higher; grassers weak to shade
lower; medium and good grades
around 900 to 1925 pounds, mostly
8.35a9.85; straight grassers, mostly
925 down: few small lots good and
choice grain-feds, 1000a10.50: she
stock and bulls mostly steady to
strong; medium and common heif-
ers, 6.00a8.50; medium and good
beef cows, 625a725; cutter and
common grades, 5.5Oa6.25; bulk can
ners, 425a5.25; sausage bulls, 6.5Oa
7.5O.
Calves. 20. Compared with Fri
day last week, steady; good and
choice grade vealers, 950al0.O0,
mostly; plain and medium, 7.00a9 90.
Hogs, 200; nominally steady; COM
pared week ago: Weights 240 pounds
down, 10 cents lower; weightier
butchers and packing sows, Is cents
of. Good and choice 100 to 2lO
pounds quatable 765a790; practical
top, 100; 210 to 240 pounds, 7.4Oa7.65;
$50 to 300 pounds. 70Oa7.35; l40 to
l60 pounds, 7.50a775; 12O to 140
pounds, 7.15a750; packing sows, 5.25
a5,75. Hogs from doubtful areas and
those fattened on garbage or swill
and price premiums occasionally paid
for through billed rail consignments
purchased for reshipment not repre-
sented in above quotations.
Sheep, 40. For week ending Fri
day: Spring lambs, Is to so cents
lower; weeks top, 1915; bulk good
and choice grades, ewes and wethers,
Thursday, 9.75a1O25; top that day.
1850. For equivalent for choice
closely sorted rail double deck; good
and choice, Friday, mainly 1000; few
1925: rail arrivals lacking: fat buck
lambs discounted 100 plain and
medium throwouts mostly 7.00a9.O0:
fat slaughter ewes from 800 down
ward, steady.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat, No.
2 red winter, garlicky, spot. domes-
tic, 6914: July delivery. 69A. Set
ting prices were: Wheat, No. 2 red
winter, garlicky, spot, domestic, SO;
July delivery, &c. Corn, No. 2 yell
low, domestic. 61a63. Western bill
ing at a premium over this price.
Cob corn, nominal; country prices
reported, 2.50a275. Oats, No. 2
white, domestic. 47a52: No. 8, 46a51;
Pacific Coast, No. l white, 65a67.
Excepting grain on track there is
an additional charge of 1s4 cents
bushel for storage and elevation on
sales of oats.
Rye, No. 2, 55a6O. Barley. new,
4Oa42. Hay, ton, 1OO0a13OO. Shraw,
ton, 750.
Flour, barrel, winter, patent, 4.3Oa
460; winter, straight, 3.5Oa3.75;
spring. patent. 49Oa5.15; spring,
straight. 4.65a485; hard winter, pat
ent, 455a475; hard winter, straight.
4.35a4.60: rye, dark to white, 3.20a
40. Mill feed. ton, spring bran.
26 00a2700. standard niddljnoc