Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-04
THE MARKET BASKET.
Fruit and Vegetables Quieted By
Weather Influences.
COUNTRY BUTTER DRIFTING DOWN
Southern Strawberries in BOuntiful Sup
ply and Lower.
DEMAND FOR FISH EQUAL TO SUPPLY
OFFICE OF PrrTsBURe DISPATCH.


FRIDAY. May 3, 1SS9
In fruit and vegetable lines trade for tn
week has been quiet owing to chilly, we
weather. Heavy frosts have produced
scarcity of asparagus. Everything abov
ground was nipped yesterday morning
Strawberries from the South are in abund
ant supply. A good article should retail
at zoe. Jobbers have been selling fai
article at l0c to-day. Cucumbers and radishe
home grown are in good supply at rates cheaper
than last Saturday. Golden wax beans and new
peas from Florida are in the stalls
Country butter has been drifting downward
the past week. A peddler who pays weekly
visits to our markets reports great abund
ance of choice butter through his bailiwick
Said he: Il sold to stores to-day very good
article at l6c, and furnished the very best made
at 26c. The latter price was obtained for but
ter that would have brought S5c few weeks
ago" The peddler who reported the above
said that he had never known poultry as scarce
through the region he visits as it has been the
past few weeks.
The fish trade holds up unusually well con-
sidering that Lent is two weeks away; trade
last week was fully as good as { was the clos
ing week of Lent. There are a. yet no signs OF
a falling of. AT the Diamond Market butcher
stalls an improvement in trade over trade OF re-
sumer is evidently returning to the old re-
liable meats after long fast. Eggs grow
hrmer, but retail prices are the same as week
ago.
last week. 1t list o be remembered, however, that
last week and the previous week there was a
boom to the floral trade, and more decorations
were disposed Of than ever before in the same
time.
Unusual activity in tropical fruits has been
reported by jobbers for the week past.
Following are the latest retail prices for
Saturday market basket supplies Rs furnished
by leading dealers.
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, Csc per
pair: beef kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, sc
pound: calf livers, 25e apiece; corned beef
from to lOc per pound. Veal for stewing
commands lOc; roast, IN to l5e; outlets, 2Oc
per pound; spring lambs, fore quarter, l2x TO
l5c; hind quarters Is to 2Oc. A leg Of NUT
ton hind quarter, of prime quality, brings
l255Sc; fore quarter, Sc; loin of mutton, 15c.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Jersey sweet potatoes, 25c a half peck;
potatoes, l5c a half peck; celery, 10 to l5c a
bunch; new Bermuda potatoes, 25c per 4
peck; new Bermuda onions, 15c per quart;
tomatoes, 4Oc per quart box; new cabbage, 5
to Csc; apples, l5c to 2Oc per half peck;
bananas, Is to Csc a dozen: lemons 20 to
25c per dozen; oranges, 25940c; onions l5c a
half peck: spinach Zoe per half peck; lettuce, &c
per bunch, for Csc; radishes, to 1oc per bunch;
cranberries, l5c per quart; cucumbers 10 to l5c
piece; mushrooms, 75c pound; asparagus, loo
bunch, for 26c; new beets, l5c bunch; straw
berries, l5c to 25c; caulifowers 25 to Soc head;
golden wax beans, S5c quarter peck: green
beans, 25c quarter peck; peas, 25c quarter
peck.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, 9Oc. Good country
butter, 25c. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 15c, or 2
The range for dressed chickens is 81 25 to
81 50 per pair. Turkeys, 25c perpound Spring
chickens g per pair.
Fish and Oysters.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, l21zc; Cali
fornia salmon. 4Oc pound; white fish, l215c; her.
ring, pounds for 25e; Spanish mackerel, 45c
TO 5Oc pound; shad, SOC apiece; sea salmon,
4Oc a pound; blue fish, 20c; perch. l0c; |
halibut, 25c; rock bass 3Oc; black bass, 2Oc lake
trout l2]5c; HOLSTERS 25c; green sea turtle Csc.
Oysters: standard, 81 per gallon; select 81 so |
to 81 70; n. Y. counts, ST 70 per gallon; snaps,
eOc: shell oysters, 25c dozen; smelts 20 to 25c |
pound; clans, 81 25 gallon; scollops, Soc a |
quart.
Flowers.
La France roses 81 50 per dozen; Bride
roses 81 50 per dozen; Perles 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 so |
per dozen; Magma Charta roses, Soc; American |
Beauty, 25Q5Oc apiece; Mermets, 81 GOAL so per !
dozen; DE Wsttville 81 so; carnations, 35c a
dozen; 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; daffodils, 75c per dozen; Dutch hya-
cinths, 2Oc apiece: pansies, 25c dozen; JacQue-
mi7ot roses, 81 90 dozen.