Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-01-17
Baltimore Livestock Market Trading
Last Year Holds Record for Uneven
Course; Federal Regulations Blamed

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each month from April through
November but staged a partial re-
Covery late in December. Final
quotations for utility grades were
around $3.50 per cwt higher for
the year. Gamer and cutter grade
cows, which formed the bulk of the
movement in the COW division.
proved an exception to the general
trend and closed the year approx
mately $3.50 per cwt. under the
average established in December,
1850. Bull prices ranged around
1925 800 hundred lbs. higher
with commercial grade sausage of
ferings up most. Veal and calf
prices worked upward around TO
"a cents per ID. December prices
for stocker and feeder cattle au-
eraged around $1.80 2.85 per cwt.
Higher than the same month IN
1850 With good grades up most. A
much wider range in price was Of
ten noted during the spring to ear
ly fall months.
Record all time high marks were
established in the veal and stock
cattle departments. Odd head
prime vealers reached $4,000 per
cwt. on January II and a practical
market top of $4,000 was recorded
on January %. A small lot of
mostly choice 433 ID. calves reach
ed a high mark of $4,000 on March
20 and the price was duplicated
on April 10 and %.
Good and choice barrows and
gifts scaling 16O-22O lbs. (choice
after July y sold around S5.25 !
5.45 per cwt. Higher in January
1851 than they did in January,
$50 and showed an average in
Grease of around $2.15 per hun
bred lbs. over the December, 1850
prices. However, average prices
for the month of December, 1851
were around $3.10 1926 per cw..
under those of January and figured
around 95c $1.10 lower than the
December, 1850 prices. The ad-
vance begun in January continued
in Eel ruary but this trend was re-
versed in March and April. AG-
vances were chalked up again the
next three months with the highest
average of the year recorded in
July. Reverses set in August and
continued for the most part tn,
balance of the year until storm
conditions resulted in some recov-
cry late in December. Hogs were
the only form of livestock to sell
under effective parity prices and
they figured from to is percent
under parity levels the last four
months of the year with December
10 figures showing prices only 80
percent of effective parity on that
date.
Daily receipts of lambs and ewes
were OFTEN too small to permit an
accurate comparison of prices and
frequently were negligible or viz
tually blank. A fairly broad in.
curry was noted during most of the
year for high-good to prime offer
ings. January prices for wooded
slaughter lambs figured around
S2.l5 = ESQ per cwt. Above thu
December averages with ton
grades scoring the sharpest nm.
arns: Compared with the prey.
ious January, prices showed an ad.
vance OF around $3.50 per cwt. A
atner late and unseasonably cool
spring retarded the spring lamb
movement so that a more or less
forced market prevailed at the
Easter season when spring lambs
sold up to $4,000 per cwt. on March
20 to establish a new record b;ob
mark. Following the record hieb
rrices of March and April the
trend was downward and values
gradually declined until the De.
cemoer average for choice and
prime wooled slaughter lambs flo.
ured at $SO.65 was $3.50 under tho
January average for the same
grade and showed a decrease of
soc per cwt. from the comparable
December, 1850 ayeraoe W."