Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-23
THE MARKET BASKET.
Fish and Oysters Continue Active al
Expense of Meats
NEWyEGETABLESIN GOOD DEMAND
Eggs and Creamery Butter DOWn---POultry
Higher and Firm.
rr~- hrruuTrH IN EI0RAL LINES
NEWyEGETABLESIN In GOOD DEMAND
LENT oUIETING TO FLORAL LINES
OFFICE OF P1rrsBURe DISPATCH,

LENT QUlEIlNU ~
orr1cr oT PITrsBURG DISPATCH
FRIDAY. March y, lSS9
Visit IN the meat stalls of Diamond Mar
lst deveIoped no new features in the weeks
trade Prices have undergone no change.
Choice cuts sell for the same price as they
did last fall when 1,500-pound steers
brouebt $50 more than they bring to-day. On
+be Tougher portions of beef butchers are
ready TO make concessions on prices rather than
lose customer. The low prices of boiling
meat, hides and tallow, they claim compels
them to keep up prices on choice cuts
Said an old time stockman a day or two ago:
american people are determined to have the
best of the beef at any cost and hence butchers
find 1t hard to dispose of the low grade meat
which makes up the principal part of the
cattle.
There is no let-up to the active trade in fish
and oyster lines. 1t is very evident without re-
ferTing to the calendar that Lent is fully on,
from the activity of trade in the products of
tie great deep. There are fewer fresh 1ish in
the stalls this week than last The breaking
up OF ice on shores OF lakes and pays prevents
the usual catch, and dealers are forced back to
the old reliable frozen stock.
Lettuce Raised by Steam.
New vegetables come in freely and trade in
this line shows decided improvement on last
week. Said leading Diamond Market dealer:
''Our trade has been more satisfactory this
week than for some months past and business
in line is fully good as usual for this time
of the year. Our customers are hungry for
new lettuce, rhubarb and other garden stuff
and we have little cause to complain"
The choicest lettuce, nome raised, appeared
on stalls this week raised by a new process in
frames heated by steam. This process requires
amuch shorter time than the old-fashioned
method of manure beds. A Troy Hill gardener
has made a success of the new process, and the
fruits are seen in as fine punches of lettuce
were ever shown in our markets.
Country butter is more active since oleo has
been knocked out. Creamery is on from last
weeks prices Poultry grows very scarce and
keeps advancing.
Eggs have had decided fall in the week
past, and IN a wholesale way go a-begging at
iZ15c a dozen. 1t is very rare that eggs are as
low at this time of the year as they are to-day.
Florists report no change in the situation.
Trade is fairly active. Prices are unchanged.
Their feels the effect of Lenten times, but
society is expected to get in its regular work
when the great Christian fast is over.
Following are retail prices for Saturdays
market basket filling:
Meats.
The prices called for at the Diamond Markets
remain unchanged The best cuts of tenderloin
steak range from 20 to 25c, with the last figure
for very fancy, which are very often no bet
ter than the 2Oc article; sirloin, best cuts
from Is to 2Oc; standing rib roast Is to 20c;
chuck roast. 10 to l2c; best round steaks. 15c;
boiling beef, to SC; sweet breads 25c per
pound: calf livers. 25c apiece; corned beef
from to l0c per pound. Veal for stewing
commands lOc; roast l2H to l5c: outlets; Dc
per pound; spring lambs, fore quarter, l215 TO
15c: hind quarters, Is to 20c. A leg of NUT
ton, hind quarter, of prime quality, brings
l215c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of mutton, I5c.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Jersey sweet potatoes, Csc a half peck;
potatoes l5c half peck; celery. Toto l5c bunch;
new Bermuda potatoes, 4Oc per peck; new Ber-
muda onions, 25c per quart; tomatoes, 40c per
quart box; pumpkin. Is to 25c; cabbage, 5
TO l0c; apples 15c to 2Oc per half peck;
bananas, Is to Csc a dozen: lemons. Is to
SOc per dozen; oranges S595Oc; onions, 2oe a
per bunch, 8 for 25c radlshes &c per bunch; cram
berries l5c per quart: cucumbers, 25 to 35c a
piece; mushrooms, 81 a pound; asparagus, 20c a
bunch; new beets, l5c a bunch; strawberries, 75c
aquart.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, 30 to Sc. Good
country butter, S5c. Fancy pound rolls, 5Oc.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 15c.
Choice country eggs bring 20c.
The range for dressed chickens is 81 25 to
81 80 per pair. Turkeys, 25c per pound
Fish and Oysters.
Following are the articles in this line still on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon I21Sc; Cali
fornia salmon, 40c pound white fish, l211<c; her
ring, pounds for 25c; fresh mackerel Soc apiece;
Spanish mackerel, 45c to Soc a pound; sea sal
mon, 40c pound; blue fish, 20c; perch. 10c;
halibut, 2oc; rock bass 30c black bass, zoe: lake
trout, l218c: HOLSTERS 25c; green turtle, 2Sc.
Oysters: standard, 81 per gallon; select, 81 so
TO 81 20; n. I. counts, d 20 per gallon; snaps,
90c: shell oysters, 25c dozen; smelts, 20 to 25c
pound; clans, 81 Is gallon; scollops, SOC a
quart.
Flowers.
La France roses, s. 90 per dozen; Bride
roses, s. O0p per dozen; Perles, 81 25 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 Is per dozen; Bennetts, g 90
per dozen; Magma Charta roses, 81 90;
American Beauty, 5Oc@Sl 90 apiece; Mermets,
g 90 per dozen; DE Wattville, 81 90; carnations
80 cents a dozen; Violets, 81 90 a 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, 25c
3 spray; daffedlls, 75c per dozen; Dutch hya-
cinths, zoe apiece: pansies, 25c dozen; Jacque-
mi7ot roses, 81 90 Dozen