New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-01
HOME INTERESTS.
PRICES IN MARKET.
AN ABrNDANCE or FisH-NO MORE WILD DUCKS
- ,r,,-,,scv IN THY PRICE or BFTF-yEGETA-

AZ ADyANcF IN TTfT PRICE or BKEF-vEGETA-
BLrs ARE CHEAPER-IIIE FRUIr MARKET.
Fish Is more abundant than it has been for two
or three years. Ten schoOners Of maokerel arrived
I'm market during the week. but the fish wero small
I'm size. The run Of shad in the North River has
been unprcccdcntedly large, though the supply
from the Connecticut River is yet light. Cod
and haddock are now caught near Sandy Hook and
the south side Of Long Island as far east Rocka
way Smells will probably be out of market this
week; As soon a. shad becomes abundant the de-
rnand for smelts is small. Up to the present
time the catch Of salmon in the Penobscot River Is
larger fhan I'm any previous season for number OF
vcars. which would indicate that by the middle Of
MAY or the first of June this delicious fish will be
very plentiful and cheap. The first Spanish mack
crcl Of the arrived in market from Pensacola
Yesterday. and sold at - cents a pound. One Of
the features Of the fish market during the week has
been the arrival of large quantity of pompano
which now sells at % cents a pound, the usual price
being - cents.
The first porgies Of the season arrived in market
Thursday and sold at - cents pound. Bass is
from : to 20 cents smets, 10 cents; blucish
l2i2 cents salmon frozen, 80 cents fresh, - cents
Good medium sized mackcrcl are 10 cents apiece,
small fish weighing four or five to the pound 30
cents "a dozen: largo extra bl0atcr mackcrel weigh
ing three pounds are 30 cents a pound. Shad from
the North River are 10 10 cents a pound; from
tho Connecticut 10 10 - cents; white perch Is 10
cents halibut - cents, haddock cents Goldfish ;
cents blackfish - cents, founders cents, GELS
is cents Holsters l2l2 cents green turtle is cents
scoop- - per gallon and soft clans 40 cents 20
per hundred
Lake pickercl il . cent, q pound, brook front
from Canada 30 cents; from Long Island. -
yellow pike Is 10 cents; nus'al"hse - cents teu
80 1911 b,3l,.t. a. tol,
'-i''''i''' 81 '' P''
cents pound smoked '"inoh 20 cents ana 'H9 'o'
r rents.
,ri ...-..l c-.1 81, Ga. rama I,,,s ~ fho State
81" f '-
for the killing or sale oi Ni" ducks eNPiI'' y'sl'I'
day. There d, htt.r other change In tho poultry
,'',N,' 'N'f. WA, '.,s -, ~ and "a
-, @.f..f .it. .,..,.o~. te., 81.
par. 'hi'Arh' t' lows oi llls ''''' "i' D." 10 D.,
cents "a pound y label plia chickens and fowls -
o-lo CENTS. cauo,.. 35 ocnt.; turkcys. lG 20 ~
'' "' ''' f.
cents. goose. l6 o. 20 ccuf,' 'nlir - 30 oo/rhi
blower - 30: squads. 3 90 p; pigeons, 3d.
f.I'i' "'i'''' '' ~ ,l q;
b,'i hl, advanced '"A'"'rr"'lf' ANU .''" d"
the bulb, as high a- 1llf cents pound Porter
house steak }, - cents: -irlom - cent. porter
house roast. 26 cents; prime, M roast x ''ii
chuck roast. = 20 lO cents. liecf for . n mode
stow. u cents; ordinary stew beef. 10 Z" II ''ut'
soup meat. cents; suct 10 cents; corn'I P3'r
10 cents Veal Is Scents by the tor"guaitcr; leg
of veal D., - cents: lon lB cents; breast ol veal
I'D cents Calyc- heads are 10 cents apiece, anl
V,ttnn ~ l3 cents for the hindquartcr. cents
for the forcquartcr leg ~ mutton j. j. cents.
The loin I3 cents. spring lamb d becoming Little
moro plentiful The entire animal is sold from -
10 -: the hndQuartcr is = 90; the foIcquartor
~ -. Breast Of lamb !, 20 cent. pound. There
In Walhinston Market creamery butter is =
cents pound; Western - Ia - cents dairy, -