New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-21
HOME INTERESTS.
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
FISH, FLESH AND GAME IN ABUNpAScE-poULrRY
SCARCE AND HIGH

FISH, FLESH AND GAME IN ABUNDANCE-PoULTRY
SCARCE AND HIGH
The fish-dealers In Fulton Market are growing
over the long delay In completing the building and
the meat game and vegetable vendors of Washing
ton Market are agitatDg the question of rebuilding
that shed series of sheds. Perhaps tho absorbing
interest they take in these subjects accounts for the
fact that nothing is seen in the way of articles
of food on the various stands. The supply in all
branches OF the trade except poultry is abundant,
but prices continue to be very high. The
stands in Fulton Market are loaded
with fresh fish. but the prices
asked for them have not changed during
the week. White halibut are 20 cents pound, cod
cents, bass 80 cents dressed cells IS cents, foun-
ders ~ cents tomcods 20 cents, blackfsh 10 cents
white perch 10 cents red snapper Is cents, Southern
black bass 10 cents, small green pickerel Is cents
caught whitefsh 10 cents. fresh-caught sal
mon trout cents, frozen salmon 40 cents frozen
Spanish mackerel 80 cents. frozen sheepshead 20
cents and small frozen bluefsh 10 cents, Green
turtle is selling for cents pound, while diamond,
back terrapins bring $50 dozen, ana Small pun
terrapins ~ dozen Soft clans in the shell are at
81 to - a hundred, Little Neck clans III the shell
30 cents hundred, scalloDs Sl 70 gallon
Blue Point oysters 81 90 thousand, Saddlerocks
$50 a thousand, hard crabs $3 hundred soft
crabs 81 o dozen, blOaters @ cents bunch bone
less Goldfish - cents, smoked sturgeon 20 cents
live SnrlulpS SO CbuUe u duu DlOOh piho AZ
Great quantities of game hang on the hooks in
Washington Market, although few varieties, such
as venisOn wild squad and wOOdcOck. have gone out
of season. Tame pigeons are 81 so dozen, wild
pigeons 81 so dozen, wild turkeys 20 cents q
pound, wood ducks 80 to 70 cents q PAIR, black
reed reed brds$l 80 dozen Quail are scarce at 81 80
a dozen English pheasants sell at 50 90 pair
parrdges at 75 cents TO 81 20, prairie chickens
81 so eanyasback ducks So to $3 90 red-heads
ST. 20 to 81 90, malards go TO 50 cents and grouse
81 25 to 81 75. Bear meat can be bought tor 20
cents pound.
some cases il commands very high price, az Tor
Philadelphia brOilers, which bring from - TO 80
cents pound. State chickens are 3 Z Genus each'
Ducks are "a 10 20 cents pound Phlladelphla
dry -plcked turkeys % TO 26 cents. clty-dressed
brOlels 10 TO IS cents, spring geese ~ cents
pound Boston geese % 10 "A cents, capOns % 70
cents roasting chickens 20 to % cents ap0und.
Prices for cuts and steaks and meats generally re-
main unsettled from last week. The wide range In
the quoted prices shows the difference IN the qualy
of the meats sold. Some of the stun sofa on thee
stands on the outside of the market should iall
under the eye of sanitary inspector AthTst-class
stands porterhouse steaks bring 70 to - cents
pound choice cuts Is cents, slTlOn u 10 ~ cents
chuck roast Ia to 10 cents, round steak ~ 10 ~
cents, stewng pieces to II cents,sOup meat 10 IO
cents. suet - cents; spring lamb, hind1
quarters Ii to is cents, fOrequarterS 10
TO I3 cents pound. Mutton fore and hind quar-
tiers are about 4 cents pound cheaper than lamp,
mutton shoulders cents, mutton chops IL 10 ~
Corned beef sells at to Ii cents pound, Deef ten
derloln 40 10 70 cents beef kidneys IL cents
apiece sausages Ii to cents pound, Deel tongues
10 cents a pound, smoked beet 10 TO 20 cents.
smoked hams II cents Western hams is cents Da-
con u TO IL cents, roasting pork IL to 10 cents,
pork tendeTlons 10 to Is cents, trpe cents,
corned pork - cents, lard ~ cents,
roasting pigs So 30 to 50 each, OK tails II a
Dozen lambs fries, 30 10 80 cents dozen, sweet
breads 81 to SO 80 dozen, head cheese II cents
a pound, fresh pig l0ins 1O cents pound, bone
| less bacon Is GEMS pound
Some fresh tomatoes of poor quality are aTrlY-
ing m Washington Market from Florida, and sell at
from 81 to IS a crate. The interest taken In other
sorts of vegetables does not abate, aud tue prices
do not change. Domestic cabbages are 10 cents
head imported cabbages 20 cents head, celery
10 TO 20 cents bunch, lettuce to 10
cents head, root celery, 10 cents
a bunch spinach 80 cents a peck,
water cress 20 cents quart corn salad 10 cents
quart onions 30 cents a peck turnlp5 40 GENTS a
peck cranbeTTes 20 cents quart, table apples @l
and eating apples so cents peck.
Southern eggs have begun to come into the mar
ket IN sufficient quantities TO deDTeSs the price to
20 cents a dozen. Domestic eggs are 80 cents.
Frst-caSs creamery butter Is from 80 20 40 cents
pound common cooking butter IS from ~ To ~
cents IA pound. Imported Swiss cheese Is = cents
| a pound fOmage de Bre 10 cents pound, pine
apple cheese 81 20 English dairy cheese 70
cents French prunes 10 10 20 cents, turkish prunes
10 cents pound