Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-14
AS TO TABLE V[ANDS.
Choice Butter Advances and Peaches
in Better Supply.
POULTRY VERY SCARCE AND FIRM.
Ocean Products Curtailed by Late Storms
on the Coast.
AN IMPROVED DEMAND FOR FLOWERS
POULTRY VERY SCARCE AND FIRM.
AN IMPROVED DEMAND FOR FLOWERS
OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY. September 13, leSS. }

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The price of market basket materials is
not essentially different from week ago.
There has been rise in butter, but not SUI
6cient to make any marked difference In re-
tail prices. The jobbing price of creamery
butter is cents per pound greater than last
week.
A reliable article of hen fruit is not easy
to be had. and when it is certain, readily
brings outside quotations.
Cheese is firm at a shade higher prices
than week ago. Jersey sweet potatoes are
scarce on account of storms on the Eastern
coast Irish potatoes are higher in jobbing
way, on account of light receipts, but retail
prices are unchanged.
The peach supply has improved in the
past few days, but quality and condition
are below par. Choice peaches find ready sale
at outside quotations; but overripe stock,
which is in the majority, goes slow. The yield
of peaches in the country will fall below the
average. and in this section is practically zero.
The prospect for the housewives VINO nave
failed thus far to lay in supplies of peach butter
and preserves grows darker every day.
Ocean Products.
Late storms on the Eastern coast have had
the effect of very greatly curtailing supplies Oh
fish and oysters.
Dealers report that they have had all they
can do TO meet orders for a day or two, and ex-
pect to be short Saturday. Prices OF nsn 1or
the mast month or two in this market have been
too low to furnish any proht TO dealers Inc
harvest time of the trade VIII pe latet on AT
present dealers say they are working Tor glory,
and not Doodle.
Tenders of butter, eggs and poultry report
ouiet trade, with an upward drift of prices.
Poultry is scarce and higher
n mi VI & II q.
BILE extent
Florists report a slight improvement in trade
over last week. The time is close at hand
when the flower of the conservatory will be in
demand. Thus far the outside gardens are
able to furnish most of the goods wanted in
this line. The frost will be a stimulus to the
Following are the retail prices of market
basket materials, as furnished by leading
dealers:
The best cuts of renderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy. which are very often no better
than the zoe article; sirloln, best cuts, from is
to 2Oc; standing rib roast, from Is to zoe; chuck
Toast. 10 to l2c; best rouEd steaks loc; boiling
beef, 5 to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to Soc per pair;
beef kidneys 10c apiece; beef liver. sc poundi
calf livers, 25c apiece; corned beef from to l0c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast, l214 to l5c; cutets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs fore quarter 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l215c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes, I5c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes 2c per half peck; egg plants 10 to 25c; toma
toes l5c per half peck cabbage, to l0c; bananas.
20 to 25c dozen; carrots, sc a bunch; lemons, %
to S5c per dozen; oranges, Soc; lettuce, SC per
bunch, for CSC: radishes, sc per bunch;
cucumbers, for sc; beets, for 10c; caulihowers,
Is to S5c head; string beans, 20c half peck;
golden wax beans, 25c half peck; new South
ern onions sc half peck; new Spanish
onions, to lOc each; squashes, TO S5c;
peas, 2Oc per quarter peck; watermelons. Is to
Soc; cantaloups. 10 to 25c; huckleberries, 15c a
quart; Concord grapes, to lOc per pound;
plums l5c quart; peaches; % to Soc per quar-
ter peck; pineapples, 20 to Soc.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, SOc. Good country
butter. SOC. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is DC.
The range for dressed chickens is 75c to
s. Is per pair: Turkeys, 2Oc per pound. Prairie
chickens, So so per dozen; ducks, 81 90 to 81 %
per pair; reed birds, 81 OO per dozen.
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, l215c; Cali
fornia salmon, 4Oc pound; white fish, 121Sc; her
ring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackerel, SOC
TO 35c pound; sea salmon, 40c a pound:
blue fish, % to Soc; perch. 10c; halibut, Csc;
HOLSTERS, Csc; green sea turtle, 2Sc; mackerei,
20c small, 40c large. Oysters: n. Y. counts
81 70 per gallon; clans, 81 25 per gallon; scoI-
lops, SOC quart; frogs, g 90 per dozen;
SOFT shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs S5c
per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses, 81 25Ql so per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 Is per dozen; Perles 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 25
per dozen; American Beauty, 25c apiece; Mer-
NETS. 81 OO dozen. carnaI1Ons 50o dozap.
Maiden Hair fern, Soc per doz fronds; gladiolus,
Soc per dozen; Asters, SOC per dozen.