Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-17
VIANDS FOR TABLE.
California FrVits Displaced by the
HOMEGROWN Stock.
BUTTER AND EGGS ON THE MARKET
Supply of White Fish and Salmon Light
Peaches in Plenty.
FLORAL TRADE AT ITS LOWEST EBB
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OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATCH,l
FRIDAY, August l6, 1889.
In the line of fruit and vegetables retail
dealers report quiet trade and stuff plenty.
Manv of the best customers are from home
recreating, and weather has been too cool
for active trade, especially in fruit lines.
Peaches from Delaware are in full sup
ply. Jersey sweet potatoes and Georgia
grapes are to the front for the first time this
season within a few days. Superb Jersey
watermelons weighing so to 90 pounds are on
the market stalls.
The berry season has come TO an end,
mountain huckleberries being about all that
remains in this line. Corn and beans are un-
usually scarce for August
At the fish stalls great scarcity of stock is
reported. The supply of salmon and white fish
is not one-fourth the demand. Storms on the
coast have prevented the usual catch of white
fish for the week past, and dealers here are un-
able to meet demands. In the East prices have
been advanced, but here there has been no
change. A leading dealer said to-day: I'VE are
not getting our own out of Eastern fish for a
few days past owing to scarcity and higher
prices at sources of supply"
Herring are in fair supply. The restaurant
and hotel fish trade holds up better than usual
Cor the month of August The chief drop has
been in retail demand.
In two weeks more the oyster season will
open but fish from the Ohio lakes are not due
until the Doth of September, being shut out by
stringent Ohio laws.
In the line of butter eggs and poultry there
has been an upward movement the past week.
Creamery and choice country butter are from
2 to &c higher in a jobbing way than they were
a week ago. Pasturage was never better at
this time of the year, but for some unknown
reason butter has arisen from condition Of
unwonted sluggishness to unusual activity.
Florists report trade at its Quietest, The few
cut flowers that go to fill orders at watering
L. A.,
furnish about all the signs of lfein the trade
at this date.
A number of our leading florists havo been
enlarging their greenhouses, In anticipation Of
big trade the coming fall and winter and will
be ready to meet growing demands. which
they were not fully able to do at times last
season.
The National Florist Convention at Buffalo
next week will be represented by q number of
Pittsburg's leading florists.
Following are the retail prices of market
basket materials as furnished by leading deal
ers:
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 10 25c, with last figure for very
fancy. which are very often no better
than the 20c article; srloln, best cuts, from is
to zoe; standing rib roast, from Is to 20c; chuck
toast 10 to 12c; best round steaks, 15c; boiliG,:
beef, to Sc; sweet breads. 20 to Soc per pair;
beef kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver &c pound;
calf livers, 25c apiece; corned beef from to lOc
per pound V cal IOr SIeN1nR commands lUcs
roast l211 to l5c; cuslets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter Is to 20c; hind quarters, 20
to 25c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of
prime quality, brings l271c; fore quarter, SC;
loin of mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes. Is to 2Oc per half peck; Jersey sweet
potatoes. zoe per quarter peck; Southern
sweets, 25c per half peck; egg plants, 10 to
Csc; tomatoes, homegrown, l5c per quar-
ter peck; new cabbage, to l5c; bananas. 20 to
35c a dozen; carrots, sc a bunch; lemons, 25
to SOC per dozen; oranges, Soc; lettuce, SC per
bunch, for 25c; radishes, SC per bunch;
cucumbers, for sc; beets. tor l0c; caulifiowers
Is to 25c a head; string beans, 20c a half peck;
golden wax beans, 25c half peck: new South
ern onions, Z5c a half peck: squashes. 10 35c;
peas, 2Oc per quarter peck; watermelons, rs to
Soc; cantaloups. 10 to 25c; huckleberries, l5c
quart; Concord grapes, l5c per pound, 2 for 25c:
ter peck.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry. .-s-
Choice creamery butter, SOC. Good country
butter. 25c. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 25c
The range for dressed chickens is 9Oc to
chickens, so tc 75c per pair; ducks 81 90 to 81 25
per pair.
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, I21zc; her.
ring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackerel. SOC
70 S5c pound sea salmon, 40c pound;
blue fish, % to SOc; perch. l0c; halibut, 2oc;
rock bass, SOC; black bass, 20c: lake trout l215c
HOLSTERS, 25c; green sea turtle. 2Sc; mackerel,
zoe small, 40c large. Oysters: n. Y. counts,
81 20 per gallon; CLANS 81 Is per gallon; scol-
lops, Soc quart: frogs 81 90 to g 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, S5c
per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses, 81 Oo@l so per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 90 per dozeni Perles, 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 90
per dozen; American Beauty, 25c apiece; Mer-
NETS, 81 90 per 0ozen; carnations, 35c a dozen;
Maiden Hair fern, Soc per doz fronds Bermuda
Easter lilies. SO 90 per dozen; Jacquemiaot
roses. 75c to 81 50 dozen; peonies 81 O6a dozer:
moss roses 81 90 a dozen; June roses, 81 90 a
dozen; forgetmenots. Csc dozen; water lilies,
Soc dozen.