Evening star., 1940-08-03
Baltimore Markets

l00-pound sacks, 50al.00; barrel, 75a
l.50; sweet potatoes, bushel, lisa
2.25; beans. bushel. nearby, 50a1.10;
beets, nearby, bunch, 1a2; cabbage,
bushel, 30a50; nearby, pointed type,
25a30; round, 30a35; carrots, bushel,
125a150; Western, crate, 300a3.75;
caulif1oWer, crate, 1.00al.75; celery,
crate, 50a2.25; corn. nearby, dozen,
Salt; cucumbers, nearby, y bushel,
25a40; eggplant, nearby, y bushel,
75a90, lettuce, Iceberg, crate, West
ern, 375a425; Eastern, 50al25: Big
Boston, 35a75; lima beans. bushel,
50al25; onions, 50-pound sack, 75a
200; peas, bushel, 1O0a175; peppers,
bushel, 25a50; nearby. y bushel, 25a
35 spinach, bushel, 75a125; squash.
nearby. y bushel, 25a40: tomatoes,
lug, 35a65: l2-quart basket, 15a40;
nearby, y bushel, 15a50; apples,
bushel, 25a100: blackberries, quart,
10al3 blueberries, pint. l2al5;
cantaloupes, crate. 65a1 25; bushel,
60al ;00;. .pearby, y. bushel, 4oa85;
grapefruit, box, l.25a2. so; grapes,
lug. 1.00a1.75; honeydews. crate, l 00a
225; n huckleberries.. alIdrt, Balls;
lemons, box, 6.50a9.0o; lines, /. box,
1.50a200; oranges. box, California.
300a400; peaches, bushel. 100a225;
pears. box, 200a2.25; plums, crate,
1.00a2.00; raspberries, red, pint, ga
10; watermelons, each. 20a30.
Poultry and Eggs.
Live poultry - Chickens, Rocks,
pound, 17a18; crosses, 16a18; Leg
horns, Halls; fowl, Rocks, 17a18;
mixed colors, 16a17; Leghorns, l3a
ID; roosters, mixed colors, l0a12;
Leghorns, 7a10: ducks, Pekins, 13al4.
Eggs-Nearby, ungraded. current
receipts. dozen, white, 17a22; mixed
colors, 16a1S. Receipts, 1.249 cases.
Butter-Prints, go score, pound,
28a29; 80 score. 27a28; country rolls,
20a2l packing stock. l8a19. Re-
ceipts, 1888 tubs.
Livestock Markets.
Cattle, 80. Compared with Friday
last week. steers steady to 25 cents
lower: few good and choice dryfed
yearlings, 10O0-l100; choice 990-
pound invidual, 11.20; grassers from
$50 downward; most medium and
good COOL, ,270-pound grassers, 8.l5-
$40; common light kinds as low as
$50; heifers scarce; few head $50
down; COWS, $3.50 cents lower; most
fat kinds, 500-6.25; odd head heavy
heifer type to 700: bulk Gamers and
cutters, 3.50-4.50; shelly" kinds
down to 800; late top on sausage
bulls, $50; most sales Thursday, 600
635.
Calves, none. Compared with Fri
day last week, vealers closing mostly
so cents lower; late sales good and
choice, 8.50-900 common and medi-
um grades, 6.00-800.
Hogs, 8.10. Steady with Friday;
practical top, 685; good and choice
170-210 pounds, 6.60-6.85; 22O-24O
pounds, 6.35-660; 250-30O pounds,
5.85-635; 150-160 pounds, 630-6.45;
140-l50 pounds. 5.95-6.20; 130-l40
pounds, 5.7O-595; 120-l3O pounds,
5.55-5.80; packing sows, 4.55-5.05.
Compared week ago, butchers, ITO
pounds up, and packing sows, 25
cents lower; light lights and pigs, IS
cents off. Above prices based on
granted hogs.
Sheep, none. Compared with Fri
day last week, spring lambs mostly
so cents lower; late sales good and
choice ewes and wethers mostly
$780, few to 875 on small killers
accounts; fat buck lambs, 100 less
sizaele number Gull, common and
medium grades late in week, 500-
TOO: weeks top, 900:, paid Monday
for equivalent rail double deck. fat |
slaughter ewes scarce; few head 800 !
down. r..
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat, No.
3, red. winter, garlicky, spot, domes-
tic, bushel, 78%: August. 1874. Set
Ting prices were: Wheat, No. 2,
red, winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
oushel, 70: August. 10.
Corn, No. 2, yellow, domestic,
oushel, 79a8l. Western billing at a
premium over this price. Cob corn,
barrel. 3.50a370; country prices re-
ported, 3.30a350.
Oats, bushel. No 2, white, domes-
tic, 51a56. On all sales of oats to
the local trade, excepting those on
track, there is an additional charge
Of 1A cents per bushel for storage
and elevation, which is paid by the
buyer.
Rye, No. 2, bushel, 58a62. Barley,
bushel, 50a55. Hay, ton, old, 14.0Oa
l7O0. Wheat straw, ton, new, 5.50a
500.
Flour, barrel, winter, patent, 495
a5.45; winter. straight, 365a390;
spring, patent. 4.95a520; spring,
straight, 4.70a490; hard winter, pat
snt, 460a4,80; hard winter, straight,
f.40a4-65; rye flour, dark to white,
3nal m