Evening star., 1939-07-29
Baltimore Markets


tatoes, new, barrel, 175a25O; 100
pound sacks, 1.25a175; sweet po.a-
toes, new, bushel, 1.50a275: yams,
bushel, 1.50a2O0; beans, bushel 5Oa
90; nearby, 60a75; beets, nearby,
bunch, la2! cabbage, bushel, 75a
100; nearby, bushel, 5Oa85; carrots,
Western, crate, 3.00a3.50; nearby,
bunch, 1a2; cabbage, bushel, 75a
corn, crate, 15a65; nearby, dozen,
8a20; cucumbers, bushel, 2Oa5O:
nearby, Z bushel, 10a20; eggplant,
bushel, LOCALS; nearby, = bushel,
50a90; lettuce, crate, Big Boston,
25a50; Western. Iceberg, 200a2 rs;
lima beans, bushel, 75a1.25; onions,
50-pound sacks, 5Oa1 so; peas, bushel,
1.00a2.00; peppers, bushel, 5Oa75,
nearby. u bushel, 25a35, spinach,
nearby, = bushel 50a60; radishes,
basket, red tips, 30a40; squash. near
by, Z bushel, 5a25; tomatoes, lug,
35a65, nearby. L bushel. 35a75; ap-
Piles, bushel, new. 35a1 90; blackber-
ries, quart, Balls: cantaloupes, South
ern, bushel, 25a60; nearby. p bushel
l0a4o; grapes, lug. 1,75a200 honey
balls. crate. 2.75a3.50 honeydeWs,
crate, 150a200, huckleberries, quart,
l0al3; lines, carton, 75al.25;
oranges, Florida, box, 225a3.75;
California, 200a450; peaches, bushel,
1.00a2.50; nearby, y bushel. 4Oa9O;
pears, box, l.75a225: plums, crate,
60al.75; lemons, box, 350a4.75;
watermelons, each. l2a30.
Dairy Products.
Live poultry - Chickens, Rocks,
pound, l6al9; mixed colors, l6ale;
fowl, Rocks. l7a19; mixed colors.
15al8; Leghorns, 12al5; roosters,
7al2; ducks, Peking, 12al4.
Eggs - Nearby, ungraded, dozen,
white, large. 22a24; medium, l8a2O;
mixed colors, 17a19; receipts, 1886
cases.
Butter-Prints, 80 score, pound,
27; 80 score, 25; country rolls. l7als;
packing stock, Halls; receipts, 1,2l5
tubs.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat, No
2 red winter, garlicky, spot, domes-
tic, 1884, July delivery, 69a4. Settling
prices were: Wheat, No. 2 red WIN
ter, garlicky, spot, domestic. 70; July
delivery, 70. Corn, No. 2 yellow,
domestic, 54a56. Western billing at
a premium over this price. Cob
corn, nominal Oats, No. 2 white,
domestic, 40a5O; No. 3, 39a44; Pacific
Coast, No. l white, 65a67.
Except grain on track there is an
additional charge of 134 cents
bushel for storage and elevation on
sale of oats.
Rye, No. 2. 50a55 Barley, 4Oa45.
Hay, ton, 1O00a13OO. Wheat straw,
ton, 600a65O.
Flour, barrel, winter, patent. 4.2Oa
4.5O; winter, straight. 34Oa365;
spring, patent, 48Oa5O5; spring,
straight, 455a4.75; hard winter, pat
ent, 4.45a465; hard winter, straight,
4.25a4.5o; rye flour, dark to white,
3.10a4.00. Mill feed, ton, spring
bran, 2300a2400; standard mid
dlings, 25.OOa260O.
Livestock Market.
Cattle, 100 Compared with Friday
last week: Dry-fed steers steady:
873-1 ,244-pound weights, 9.25-1o.Oo,
mostly; top, 10.15 for few head 1,12O
pounds; grasses mostly under 900;
majority 950-l ,26O-pound medium
and low grades, 760-89O; common
light weights down to TOO or below:
helfers scarce, few plain and me-
dium, 6.00-810; cows mostly so cents
lower; good grade weighty beef
type to TOO, sparingly; bulk late
sales, medium and good grades. SO
600; cutter and common, 4.5O-5.25.
Gamers, 3.25-4.25; bulls Is cents
lower; late sales sausage kinds most
ly 6.25-725.
calves, none. Compared with Fri
day last week: Mostly so cents high
er, good and choice vealers, 1000
1850, mostly; plain and medium
grades, 7.50-950
Hogs, 200. Steady with FRIDAY and
week ago; good and choice 16O-21O
pounds. 7.25-7.50; practical TOP, 750:
l40-l6O pounds. 7.1O-7.35; 22O-240
pounds, 6.90-715; 25O-3oo pounds
625-6.75; 120-14O pounds, 6.75-7l0.
packing sows under 400 pounds
475-5.oO; 4oo-5oO pounds, 4.5o-475
Hogs from doubtful areas and those
1attened on garbage or swill and
price premiums occasionally paid
1or through billed rail consignments
purchased Tor reshipment not repre-
sented in above quotations,
Sheep, Is. For week ending Fri
day: Spring lamb market closing 25-
80 cents lower, following strengthen
ing tendency early this week: Friday
sales good and choice ewes and
Wethers. 9.0O-9.40: fat buck lambs,
LOO less; sales Thursday from s.75 |
downward; weeks top, $50, paid |
sparlngly Monday; fat Slaughter