New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-17
HOME INTERESTS.
HIGH PRICES IN MARKET.

HIGH PRICES IN MARKET.
FISH IN sCANTY SUPPLEMENTAL OF CONNECTICUT
sHAD AND PENoBsCoT sALMoS-sPIdNG CHICK
ESs-HARLY VEGETABLES.
The prices of fish have probably reached food-tide.
The supply which has been kept back by the bad
weather was even scanter yesterday than the week
before. The demands Of the closing days of Lent,
especially Of Good Friday the great fish day of the
year. drove prices up to the present point which is
higher than has been known for number of years
The first Connecticut shad of the senson arrived in
market on Thursday and sold at 81 90 apiece. The
first salmon from the Penobscot arrived Friday,
weighed twenty-five pounds, and sold for 81 so q
pound Bass is 35 cents q pound, smets are Is
cents buefsh 12l2 cents, salmon frozen, 80 cents,
mackerel 10 cents. Spanish mackerel % cents
shad, which il beginning 10 be sold by the pound
instead of by the fish, is Is cents, white perch 10
cents, habut Is cents, Goldfish 10 cents, founders
- cents Holsters ID cents, cells Is cents green tnr
tie ~ cents. Scollops are 70 cents quart, the
highest price Mt which they have been sold in New
York market. Soft clans 40 cents to 81 90 per
hundred, and teTapin Sl5 dozen.
Among the fresh water fish, brook trout from Long
Island is selling at 81, and from Canada at 30 cents;
pickerel, Is cents; yellow perch, II cents yellow
pike - cents muscalongc, IS cents; red snapper,
20 cents polnpano 10 cents; shrmps. - 30 a gal
Ion: smoked salmon, 30 cents. and dry cod cents.
Spring chickens have arrived in market and are
selling at - pair. Philadelphia roasting chickens
arr 30 cents and fowls are 20 cents pound chick
ems and fowls from this State ARE IL 10 20 cents.
Turkeys - cents capons 80 cents; gc"sr l6 to
= cents, teal duck. 70 cents par mallards, 81;
rrdhcad - % brandt dnck. 81 30; canvass backs.
- squads ar 81 a dozen snpc, 81; ployer y;
pr ou,. ~, and small birds, 81.
There is little change in the meat market. Por-
tcthuu.c steak iH from 20 to 30 cents pound sir
lion - 10 - cents rib roast 22 to % cents, chuck
from : to y cents. soup meat To cents. Corncd
beef t. from : to II cents and -uet crnts Leg Of
ven - crrt- and the lon is rs cents. The bind
quarter Ills for Il cents pound Svcctlr ads are
s3 30 % dozen. Tic best quality Of spring lamb is
- % hmdqnartcr and - 20 for the forrquartcr.
Mutton Is cents pound for the fOrcquartor and ID
ccnia Tor The lindquaItcr little pleasant weather
viii hnn, ihr prices down. Fresh pork u II cents
pound silt pork - cents and ham I cents.
Dairy butter D.. considerably lower than when last
quoted II now Sls ut - cents in Washington
Market. While Western butter is higher, selling now
al - cents. The b,,t cheese is 10 cents; skim milk
cbccsc from to ~ cents; ParnrSln, - cents ;
Bric 40 cents Ropucfort - cents Canelnhert -
. hllf dozen: Nouchatcl. 80 cents a dozen; ELAN
Ci,,,,s. - 10 each; fresh eggs are % cents
dozen: ducks eggs for % cents; geese eggs for
- cents and Sap Sage 10 TO % cents.
There j. ncarre supply Of fresh vegetables IN
the market. Asparagus Is arriving from California
aud ,l, south bnt IL is selling "a high 80 cents a
bun,h New bets from Bermuda ar 30 cents a
bunch. and from Florida 20 cents. New cabbage ~
from = go go cent, a head. String beans from the
Souih ar. go cent, a quart Florida p cas- are 81 a
h,lCrcck French carrots. which are raised IN hot
hlu... ON Iong Island. ar 10 cents bunch. spin
1,h d.. 20 cents hllf-peck. Spring spro uts nn 20
cents half peck some II cents quart lettuce. 10
fo l. cent, = h.ad corn salSl. - cents quart
Hrp~- 4. chicory Il cents lulri celery, 20 20 -
cent. a huuch IN Iharh. 10 cent? a bunch pepper
,ras.. ~ cents quart: oyster plant, - cents
bunch cc.ry root. 10 cents = bunch: p1rsnipS p
,r..t. dorm: French artichnks, p cents piece
and jerusalem artichoke, - cents quart. Early
E,>. rniatp,s are ~ barrel and White Rose are
1928. Vans are 10 cents 4 pound Mushrooms are
81 % pound. Yucas ARE 10 cents pound
DAlidelioa is sold at ID cents quart for the htte
salad leaves the older and tougher leaves for g'"us
A.. 10 cents Scotch Eale is - cents a half peck
Curumhcrs arr 80 to 30 cent? piccr.
A. SOM ~ the warm We s'her comes on there viii
De- full supply Of topical fruits in market The
storms which have made The supply Of h.h scant
have also delayed the fruit fleet from the tropics.
Florida orange, AM from 80 10 - cents . dozen.
C.faiIn. 90 CENTS dozen. Jam.icas 80 Z" % cents
dof.n and NJ --iae- ar" 10 cents DOZEN;
N,--i,Ia l.rui.- ar - cents dozen. Red
iarli.as are % cents q doom and yellow Jinaicl-
ar. ipr,.t.. Mau-"r> 80" 80 cents dozen tIs-
.,r,. - ,.,i. = pound Nrw dates are 10 cents
mound Pmniain- m. 80 Ia - cents "a DOZEN Ch'r-
i.o,a- or cu-i.rI apples Ten To- - cents apl.r'
~frI N =. I'M, arr r"a-il'rt'll rh'Apr IMAM lh'j
,v,re last week retailing now ~ 20 g. - cents
box Ih fr j, not q lnigr supply IN mark.t, lnt The
l,t quality 81 fruii Ia, not arrived ai The demand
+. NOT nrc. na.tvii apples ar" - 30 barr ami
and Spii.rubcrgs are -. Lazy api'cs arc - cents
quart.