Evening star., 1939-07-22
Baltimore Markets
BALTIMORE, Md, July o.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 22.-
Potatoes. new, barrel, 250a2.75; 100
pound sacks, 1.50a200: sweet pota-
toes, new. bushel, 250a275; yams,
bushel 1.75a20O; beans, bushel, 5Oa
90; nearby, 6OaSO; beets, nearby,
bunch, 1a2; cabbage, bushel 75al 90;
nearby, bushel, 5Oa75; carrots, West
ern, crate, 25oa275: nearby, bunch,
2a3; caulif1ower, crate, 150a175 cel-
cry, crate. 75a200; corn, crate, 4Oa
100; nearby, dozen, 8a13; cucumbers,
bushel, 20a50; nearby. n bushel,
10a25; eggplant. nearby, u bushel.
1,00al.10; lettuce. crate. Iceberg. 75a
100; Big Boston. 40a60; Western,
Iceberg, 2.50a3 So lima beans, bushel,
75al so; onions, 50-pound sack, 50a
$50: peas, bushel. 1.50a2.00; peppers,
bushel. 40a75; nearby, y bushel 35a
SC; spinach, bushel, 6Oa85; nearby,
y bushel, 35a50; radishes. basket,
red tips, 40a50; squash. nearby, l.
bushel, 20a35; tomatoes, lug, 5Oa1 90;
nearby, y bushel, 40a85; apples,
bushel, new, 5Oa1 90; blackberries,
quart, 10al5; cantaloupes, Western,
crate, 250a350: Southern, 5Oa1 90;
nearby. y bushel. 50a85; grapefruit,
box, 1.00a225; honeyballs, crate,
2.75a3.5 so; honeydews, crate, LISA
200; huckleberries, quart, 1Oal3;
lines. carton, 100al25; oranges,
Florida, box, 20Oa3 so; California,
2 25a3.50; peaches. bushel, l.5Oa2 so.
nearby, q bushel, 35a50; pears, box.
2 250a3.00; plums, crate, 125a2.OO:
lemons, box. 425a625; raspberries,
pint, red, 5a8; black, quart, 12a15;
watermelons, each, 15a30.
Daily Products.
Live poultry-Chickens, Rocks.
pound, 16a20; mixed colors, l8a20;
fowl, Rocks, 1920; mixed colors,
l7al9; Leghorns, 13al5; roosters, Ia
IL; ducks, Peking. 12a14.
Eggs-Nearby, ungraded, dozen.
white, large. 2la22; medium, 17a20:
mixed colors, l6a18; receipts, 1,843
cases.
Butter-Prints. 80 score, pound, 27;
80 score, 25; country rolls, 17a18:
packing stock, l4al5; receipts 697
tubs.
Grain Market.
Opening prices we're: Wheat, No. 2
red, winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
6Sl2; July delivery, 681a. Settling
prices were: Wheat, No. 2, red, win
ter, garlicky, spot, domestic, 681a
July delivery, 68l2. Corn. No. 2, yell
low, domestic, 57a59. Western billing
at premium over this price. Cob
corn, nominal. Oats, No. 2, white,
domestic, 44a49: No. 3, 43a48; Pa
cific Coast, No. /, white, 65a67.
Except grain on track there is an
additional charge of l34 cents a
bushel for storage and elevation on
sale of oats.
Rye, No. 2, 55a6O. Barley, new, 4Oa
AZ. Hay, ton, 10OOa13.0O. Wheat
straw, ton, 600a65O
Flour. barrel, winter. patent, 4.2Oa
4.50; winter, straight, 3.4Oa3 65;
spring, patent. 480a5.O5; spring,
straight, 4.55a475; hard winter, pat
ent, 4.45a4.65; hard winter, straight,
4.25a4.50; rye flour, dark to white.
8 32Oa4.10. Mill feed. ton. spring bran,
standard middlings,
AZ OOa28.OO.
Livestock Market.
Cattle. so. Compared with FRIDAY
last week: Steers mostly 25-40 cents
lower; good grade, 875-1 ,22O- pound
dry feds, mainly 9.10-985; top. 1890
for good and choice 9O6-pound
yearlings; majority steers short feds
and grassers at 100000: grassers
mostly under 800; she-stock and
bulls, weak to mostly Is cents lower:
heifers scarce; few common and me-
dium, 6.00-8.25; medium and good
grades beef cows. 6OO-7O0: cutter
and common grades, 4.75-5.75; bulk
Gamers, 4.O0-4.5O; sausage bulls,
6.5O-7.5O.
Calves, 10. Compared with Fridav
last week: Unchanged. Good and
choice grade vealers, 9.5O-1O.OO,
mostly; common and medium grades,
10000.
Hogs, 500; steady with Friday.
good and choice l6O-2l0 pounds
725-7.50; practical top, 75O; 40
l60 pounds, 7.l0-735; 220-24O pounds
6.90-7.15; 250-300 pounds, 6.25-6.75:
l2O-14O pounds, 6.75-7.1O; 27O-5O0
pound packing sows, 4.50-5.O0. Com
pared week ago, mostly Is cents
lower. Hogs from doubtful areas and
those fattened on garbage or swill
and price premiums occasionally
paid for through billed rail con-
signments purchased for reshipment
not represented in above quota tions
Sheep. IS; for week ending Fri
day; spring lambs weak to Is cents
lower; good and choice ewes and
wethers. 9.O0-9.50; top, OTIS, paid
sparlngly on shipping account fat
buck lambs usually 100 under COM
parable grades ewes and wethers;
comon and medium grades prin-
cipally 7.00-825; small receipts fat
slaughter ewes, steady; few 800
$50.