Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-31
E MARKET BASKET.
len Products at Their Best, but
Trade Remains Quiet.
;AND CHOICE BUTTER HIGHER.
sefsh and Salmon Supply Below De-
mands of Trade.
TIE LOWER--STEAKS UNCHANGED
J AND CHOICE BUTTER HIGHER.
TILE LOwER---STEAKs UNCHANGED
OFFICE OF PrrrsBURG DISPATCH, /
FRTnAX AupTsf IN 1882

OFFICE OF PITrsBURG DISPATCH
FRIDAY. August SO. 1883. J
In general produce lines the weeks trade
has been rather quiet. Stuff of all kinds is
pIenty, and the market basket should now be
filled at rates as reasonable as any time this
season. -
Peaches and Jersey sweet potatoes are in
liberal supply and markets show downward
drift Choice country butter is moving up
ward. Good eggs have advanced ze per "a a0tSe tSe
advance. A reliable article of hen fruit does
not need to 90 begging at lsc in job lots
Poultry is unusually scarce-scarcer than Ior
many years A Clinton peddler reports that he
could not get one half enough poultry to meet
the demands of his trade.
The watermelon and cantaloup supply is
scarcely up to demand for a few days past.
The supply of fish has not been adequate to
demand for week or two past. Dealers report
that they could have easily sold double the
amount of white fish and salmon they were
able to secure the past week. At sources OF
supply prices have advanced. and also in the
West but Pittsburg, true to It's conservative
instincts, holds to the old rates About the
time the advance has speut its force dealers
here will raise prices, but so far they nave
failed to reap the harvest dealers at other
centers of trade are now reaping. The hsh
trade was never better at this season OF the
year The oyster season will open next week.
MARYLAND and Virginia laws prevent the gather
ing Of oysters from the LIST of May to the LIST of
IN game lines, prairie chickens and reed birds
are about the only article on the market so tar.
Diamond market butchers report a slight i'm
provement in trade this week over last Price
of tenderloins and rib roasts change not,
though beeves are not less than 70 per pound
lower than they were one year. ago. d1oes,
tallow and rough meat are lower. but cnolce
cuts stand unchanged. If there was reasona-
BILE profit to butchers a year ago, they must be
having a nice thing now.
In floral lines we are having the lull which
- 3waAa A r.rad eI orra
frost would be hailed as a blessing by dealers
in flowers. In the meantime trade is quiet. and
florists await the better time which Is sure to
come ere many days.
The best cuts of renderloin steak range
from 20 to Csc, with last figure for very
fancy. which are very often no better
to 20c; standing RIB roast, from Is to zoe; chuck
roast 10 to l2e; best round steaks, l5c; boiling
beef, 5 to Sc; sweet breads. 20 to SOC per pair;
beef kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, SC pound;
calf livers. Csc apiece; corned beef from to l0c
per pound Veal for stewing commands 10c:
roast. 12x to l5c; cuslets, 2Oc per pound; spring
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l211zc; fore quarter, Sc; loin Of
mutton, l5c; giblets, Sc per pound.
Vegetables md Fruit.
Potatoes. l5c per half. peck; Jersey sweet
potatoes, soc per half peck; Southern sweets,
20c per half peck; egg plants, 10 to Csc; tomatoes
60 Csc dozen: carrots SC a bunch; lemons, Is
to 35c per dozen; oranges. Soc; lettuce, SC per
bunch, for sc: radishes, SC per bunch;
cucumbers2 2 for SC; beets for l0c; caulifiowers,
Is to 25c a head; string beans, 20c a half peck;
golden wax beans 25c a half peck; new South
ern onions, sc half peck: squashes. 8 TO 35c;
peas, Ac per quarter peck; watermelons, 10 to
60c; cantaloups. 10 to 25c; huckleberries, l5c a
quart; Concord grapes, l5c per pound, for 25c;
plums, l0c quart; peaches, l5 to 2Oc per quar-
ter peck.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, 25c. Good country
butter. SOC. Fancy pound rolls, 85c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 20c.
The range for dressed chickens is Zoe to
chickens 81 SO per dozen; ducks, 81 90 to 81 25
per pair; reed birds, 81 0O per dozen
Fish In Season.
y Following are the articles in this line on
thestallst with prices: Lake salmon, 121zc; Cali
forbia salmon, 40c pound; white fish, l211c; her.
RING; -Pofnds for zSc; Spanish mackerel," SOC
blue fish, Is to 30c; perch. 10c; halibut, 25c;
rock bass SOC; black bass, 20c; lake trout, 121zc
HOLSTERS. Csc; green sea turtle. 2Sc; mackerel
81 70 per gallon; clans, 81 Is per gallon; scoi
lops. 50c qrart; frogs. 81 90 TO 81 90 per dozen
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, Sc
per dozen.
La France roses, 81 009l so per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 90 per dozen; Perles, 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 o.
per dozen; American Beauty, 25c apiece; Mer
NETS II 90 per dozen; carnations, 35c dozen
Maiden Hair fern, Soc per doz. fronds. Bermuda
Easter lilies. So 90 per dozen; Jacquemiaoi
roses. 75c to 81 so a dozen; peonies 81 00a dozen
moss roses, 81 90 a dozen; June roses, 81 90 a
dozen; forgetmenots. 25c dozen; water lilies
Soc dozen.