Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-23
KITCHEN MARKET.
Staple Meats Fail TO Follow Live Stock in
the Decline Game and Poultry
Scarce. steep-Effect of the


FRIDAY, February 2, 1882
Few new features of market basket ma
terials in the week now closing. 1t has
been an uncomfortably quiet week all along
the line, according to the testimony OF
wholesalers and retailers. The season for
game is practically at an end. Pheasants
and quail are still to be found in the stalls,
but prices are steep. Poultry, too, is passing
beyond the average citizens purse. The de-
mand for game and poultry declines as prices
ascend.
One dealer remarked, "while supplies are
light demand is equally light, and we have no
difficulty meeting all wants."
Staple meats drop not though prices of live
stock have suffered a heavy decline since last
fall. The 1,5LGpound steer costs the butcher at
least $50 less than last September, but the con-
sumer will not probably find any difference in
the price he has to pay for his tenderlolns and
now are but fair offset to the close margins
of year ago. Meat on the hoof has not been
as low since before the war as it has been the
past week.
Better Business In Lent.
A fair trade in fish and oysters is reported
In these lines lull usually occurs Immediately
before Lent. Dealers look forward to an ac-
tive movement from the 9th of March.
In the line of vegetables, dealers say that
there is plenty of stuff, but sad scarcity of
customers and greenbacks. In floral lines
past two weeks. One of our leading florists
thus puts the situation: 1--WE can notice an i'm
proved demand for our goods the past few
days, and expect improvement to continue up
to lent" In response to the query, what has
Lent to do with your business?" it was an
swered, 1.-THE social season is our winding up,
kka tofv, foot Ia
worked off the board between now and the
Christian fast. A large amount of feasting is
usually done as preliminary to Lent"
Following are the latest prices as furnished
by retail dealers in market basket materials:
Meats.
The prices called for at the Diamond Markets
remain unchanged The best cuts of tenderloin
steak range from 20 to Csc, with the last figure
for very fancy, which are very often no bet
ter than the 2Oc article; sirloin, best cuts,
from Is to Zoe; standing rib roast, Is to Zoe;
chuck roast, 10 to 12c; best round steaks, l5c;
boiling beef, 3 to Sc; sweet breads, 25c per
pair: beef kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, &c a
pound: calf ivers, 25c apiece; corned beef
from D to 10c per pound. Veal for stewing
commands 10c; roast, l211 to l5c: outlets. zoe
per pound; spring lambs, fore quarter, l219 TO
ton, hind quarter, of prime quality, brings
l273c; fore quarter SC; loin of mutton, l5c.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Jersey sweet potatoes, 25c a half peck;
potatoes l5c half peck; celery, 10 to 15c bunch;
squash, Is to Soc; tomatoes, Soc per quart
box; pumpkin. 10 to Csc; cabbage, to 10c;
apples, 15c to 20c half peck; bananas, Is to 25c
adozen: lemons. % to 30c per dozen; oranges, 350
SOC; Malaga grapes, 25c per pound; onions Csc
half peck; spinach, 25c per half peck; lettuce, l0c
per BUNCH tor Csc; radishes, sc per bunch cram
berries, 15c per quart; cucumbers, % to 35c a
piece; mushrooms, 81 pound.
Game.
Pigeons, Soc pair. Quail, 81 so to SIS 90 a
dozen. Pheasants, 81 90 pair. Prairie chick
ems, 81 90 pair.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
The best creamery butter is 4Oc. Fancy
pound rolls of country butter are Soc.
The ruling retail price for eggs is zoe.
Choice country eggs bring Csc.
The range for dressed chickens Is 81 to
81 so per pair. Turkeys, Zoe per pound; fancy,
Fish and Oysters.
Following are the articles in this line still on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 121&c; Cali
fornia salmon, 4Oc pound; white fish, 12115c; her.
ring, 4pounds for Csc; fresh mackerel 3oc apiece;
Spanish mackerel 45c to soc a pound; sea SAL
mon, 4Oc pound; blue fish, Zoe; perch, 10c;
haibut, 2oc; rock bass, SOC; black bass, 20c lake
trout, 123c: Holsters, Csc; green sea turtle Csc.
Oysters: standard, 81 per gallon; select 81 50
to 81 rs; N. Y. counts, 81 10 per gallon; snaps,
9Oc: she'll oysters, 25c dozen; smelts, 20 to 25c
pound; clans, 81 70 gallon; scollops, SOC a
quart.
Flowers.
La France roses, So so per dozen; Bride
roses, So 90 per dozen; Perles, 81 25 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 25 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 90
per dozen; Magma Cbarta roses, 81 90;
American Beauty, 50c@s 90 apiece; Mermets,
81 90 per dozen; DE Wattville, 81 90; carnations,
so cents dozen; Violets, 81 90 hundred;
Lily of the Valley, 75c per dozen; Maiden
Hair fern. Soc per doz. fronds. Bermuda
Easter lilies. So 90 per dozen: tulips, 75c per
dozen; mignonette 75c per dozen; lilacs, 81 so
a bunch; daffodils, 75c per dozen; Dutch hya-
cinths, zoe apiece; freezia, SOC bunch.