Evening star., 1951-12-18
Produce Markets

Baltimore quotations supplied by the
United States Agriculture Department:
Apples-Firm. 3usbel baskets and bushel
boxes. U. S; No. J Maryland Romes, ga
inches nD' 2;o0-26; staymans. 21a inches
Up, pp ~; YorkS; ,,s,. 2E inches up, 2.25'
3:75; ga nches np, 2.15-50; 24 Inches
up, fair quality. 1880; Mcintosh, 2la
inches up. 40; Romes; inches up, 2.5o
so; staymans. ga inches up and 3 inches,
300; ordinary quality. ! .25.
Potatoes-About steady. U. s. No l.,
size unwashed. Pennsylvania Katahdins,
l.s5-a0, few 1875; 10-pound sacks 42-44
Sweet potatoes--Firm Puerto Ricans
and New Jersey stock. about steady others.
Bushel baskets. U. s. No. !. washed, some
anasHe' 3n5AS5; oTdinary o quality, % i.uo; Puerto
Ricans. 3.7h-4.75: fair quality. $3.50;
New Jersey hampers and bushel baskets;
Goldens. 3.75-4.00. nearby Fa-oushel
Beans and Cabbase.
Snap beans-Barely steady, Florida.
VeFy Ves1et few hisher; fair quality 49, 90;
Csbbage-About steady: bushel baskets
Packed sT Su.sy lNsay s2Is6 cEGnad sacRs
New York Danish 3.50-3.75; North Caro-
lima, round, fair quality 2:50; Nor6n Go
$50; Holland. 50-pound crates. Danish.
80
Cucumbers-About STEADY; Florloa'
III aOO-8. so; fair quality, 4.0O-5 90,
Eggplsnt-About steady. Florida, bushel
baskets. few sales 3.0o-3.5o::,
lards' Y.i6oi.55; kale' 1.1o-f rs; fair
quality, s5-l, 90: repacks., cartons. 10
ounce eellophane bags Us 1885, es'
Mushrooms and Pennsyl-
Ivania 3-pound baskets. 1.;25-l .5O small.
/ l10-1.15; fair quality, 65 cents; pints
onions-About steady; 80 pound sacks
u s. is. yellows, New York, small, 200
Peppers Steady.
oyster plant-Nearby; per bunch, 10
Parsnips-Pennsylvani half bushe
"fSfaS; Peppe;rs-AbOSt steady bushel baskets
Florida: wonders sTS.,t few y soo,l3;9o sk...
Rutabaeas-Nearby half bushel hamp-
ers,, 1,35; long Island, so pound sacks
shallots-Louisiana per dozen bunches
savoy Virginia, i 56-I75 repacks, cartons
10 ounce cellophane bags, 12s, 2.l0-2. rs;
sauash-Barely steady; few sales;
TO medium. LOOP 80. few higher, poorer,
30; yellows STRAIGHT necfs. 2.00-4 90,
according TO Qualty. DuSnel baskets, CO.
cozelles, medium to large, 100000.
Tomatoes-Repacks, cartons, tubes ap-
proSimately pound, los. rs and As, 2.25-
, 40, few $50 poorer. I.25-L75; 5s. 1.25-
Turnips-Topped washed. nearby. New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, bushel baskets;
SOL IS; poorer, 90; nearby, half bushel
hampers, 100.
Livestock Markets.
Cattle-l00; no sales; calves-I00; no
sales: hogs-lo0; scattered odd lots,
l70-260 pound barrows and gifts. steady
10 25 cents higher. other weights absent:
cents lower few lots choice 170-s30 pound
barrows and gifts. l9:25-75. the top, few
34G,2oQ pounds. ls75.ia25 oo choice sow'
$50 pounds; I5.2515.
Sheep-none.
Poultry Quotations
Poultry--Market firm turkeys. balance
steady. Trading moderate. Fryers. "a
PSandi sbt and tyB, UP 80 Hens heavy type rs
272s. Geese. IL pounds and up. 35-3S
Caponettes,, 5la pounds 40. Turkeys
IS: over Is pounds 4o041. strsisft Ht' hen,
54-57.
| Grain Market.
! Flour-Receipt Eone.
shDmsas bushels I s' stoafs Sushs. s
icy, : spot: Domestic, S.s4; December. aS54;
No 3. 25l
Corn-Receipts. go 426 bushels: ship
ments 100000 bushels; stocks, 2,S33, ,273
bushels.
Oats-Receipts none; shipments. none.
Stocks. "a 0OS bushels
( Barley - Receipts. none: shipments.
none; stocks, 50.6a1 bushels.
! Rye-Receipts. nore shipments, none;
stocks 1885, bushels.
I Soybeans-Receiuts 1889 bushels;
shipments. 1888 bushels; stocks, 649.-
375 bushels
Millfeed-Receipts none.