Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-16
AS TO TABLE VIANDS.
Market Basket Materials Depressed
by Soft Weather,
HOME EGGS AND POULTRY SCARCE.
Decline of Live Stock Prices No Benefit
to Consumers.
FLOWERS ARE In ACTIVE DEMAND
HOME EGGS AND POULTRY SCARCE.
FLOWERS ARE In ACTIVE DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH
FRIDAY, November Is. 1889

FRIDAY. November Is, 1889.
This weeks weather has been unpro-
pitious TO market basket trade. In fruit
and vegetable lines there are no changes.
Domestic grapes are still on the stalls, but
demand is slow at old rates. There is a full
supply of Florida oranges Tropical fruits
are quiet for this season of the year. The
butter situation is practically the same as
last Saturday. Elgin creamery is q shade
higher, but the advance has had no effect on
retail rates. There is a great scarcity of
fresh country eggs. Nearby poultry is also
scarce, but full supplies in both lines are
coming in from the West and there is no
approach to a famine.
Plenty of Game and Meats.
Game is coming in freely, and soft
weather FOR few days past has had de-
pressing influence on markets.
Staple meats change not. The prices
which ruled year ago still prevail, though
live stock are much lower. A Diamond
Market butcher. said to-day that there was
much more in his business when be paid &c to &c
per pound for beeves than now when the cost
is 4c to Sc per pound. The offals hides and
boiling meat do not bring half the price OF
few years ago, but consumers of tenderloins
and choice meats must pay the same old rates.
At the fish and oyster stalls trade is reported
better this week than last.
White Fish Wanted.
White fish are unusually scarce and supply in
our markets is not nearly up to demand for a
week or two past
A leading dealer said to-day, that he could
easily have sold double the amount of white
fish he was able to secure. Oysters are in fair
supply. and demand is better than any time
this season.
Society has made stronger demands upon
florists this week than for month or two past
From now on to the Christmas holidays the
floral trade will be at its best, and the outlook
now is tor more than ordinary activity in this
line
Following are the retail prices of market
basket materials as furnished by leading
dealers:
Meats.
The best cuts of Uenderloin steak range
from % to Csc, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloIn, best cuts, from Is to lSc;
standing rib roast from 10 to 2Oc; chuck
loast 10 to 12c; best round steaks, l5c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to SOC per pair;
beef kidneys. lOc apiece; beef liver, &C pound;
calf liTers. Csc apiece; corned beef from to lOc
per pound. Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast l215 to l5c; outlets, 2oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 TO l2c; hind quarters,
l5e. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings I215c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes I5c per half peck; Jersey sweet
potatoes. Csc per half peck; tomatoes, 4Oc
per half peck; cabbage, to lOc; bananas,
cot 25c dozen; carrots, sc a bunch; lemons, Is
to 35c per dozen; oranges 3595Oc; lettuce, SC per
bunch, 6 for 25c; radishes, sc per bunchi beets,
for 10c; caulifowers, 10 to Soc head;
string beans, 35c a half peck; onions, 20
to S5c half peck: new Spanish onions, to
1Oc each; pie pumpkins. 10 to Soc, according
to size; Catawbas, l0c; Concord grapes lOc
per pound; California, Tokay and Muscat
grapes, 2Oc per pound; turnips, zoc per half
peck cranberries, 15c quart
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, S5c. Good country
butter. Csc. Fancy pound rolls, 40c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 30c. |
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to +
q 90 per pair. Turkeys, 20c per pound Prairie /
81 90 a pair; ducks, 81 90 to 81 % per
pair; reed birds, 81 90 per dozen: jacksnipes, |
81 Is per dozen; partridges, Sc dozen; squir- |
rels, Soc pair; plovers, 81 25 dozen; rabbits,
Soc pair; pheasants, 81 % a pair.
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on |
the stalls with prices: Lake salmon, 1215c Cali
fornia salmon, 4Oc per pound; white fish, |
l215c; herring, 4 pounds for &c; red snap |
pers, Is to 2Oc per pound; Spanish mackerel 3Oc |
TO 35c a pound: sea salmon, 4Oc pound: /
blue fish, 25 to 30c; perch. 1Oc; halibut 2oc; 1
rock bass SOC; black bass 20c: lake trout 1215c;
HOLSTERS, 25c; green sea turtle. Csc; mackerel, |
2Oc small 40c large. Oysters: n. Y. counts,
81 75 per gallon; CLANS 81 70 per gallon; scol-
lops SOC a quart; frogs, g 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, S5c
per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses, 81 256l so per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 Is per dozen; Perles, 81 90 per dozen;
81 90 per dozen; Beanetts 81 so
per dozen; American Beauty, 35c apiece; Mer-
NETS, 81 25 per oozen; carnaUons, Soc dozen;
Maiden Hair fern, Soc per doz. fronds; gladiolus,
Soc per dozen; lily of the valley 81 per dozen;
chrysanthemums, Soc to 81 dozen.