Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-24
THE MARKET BASKET.
Weather UnfavornbIc 10 Home Gardeners
Fruits md Vegetables brought From
n DIstance-scnrcity OF Fresh
Err.-PrIces of staples.

Wenther Unfav0rnblet 10 Home 1nrdehers-
Fruits and Vegetables brought From
DIstanee-scnrciiy of Fresh
Eggs-Prices of staples.
In fruit and vegetable lines there are few
changes worthy of note since last Saturday.
Strawberries from Maryland are coming in
more freely, and quality is the best offered this
season. Nearby gardeners report weather as
very adverse to their business Of late. Very
much of the garden stuff coming from the
South the past week or two is coming in poor
shape, owing to unfavorable weather. Butter
has been drifting lower. The best Elgin cream
cry can now be laid down in Pittsburg at a
shade under l7c per pound. Eggs have been in
very short supply for the past week, and choice
nearby stock has advanced fully Sc per dozen
from the lowest point reached this spring.
Lake and ocean products are in better supply
than week ago, but demand is fully equal to
supply. Staple meats change not. Butchers
report very active trade and claim that margins
are about wiped out. owing to higher price of
cattle and ice The price of the latter is nearly
trebled as compared with last season. and cattle
are fully 81 90 per ewt higher. There has been
but there must have been handsome profits to
the trade last season if there is any profit now.
Florists report fair trade for the week, but
anticipate big things next week, when the dead
patriots graves are to be decorated.
Following are latest retail prices of market
basket filling.
Staple Ments.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to Csc, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin best cuts, from Is to lSc;
standing rib roast from l5 to zoe: chuck roast,
10 to l2c; best round steaks, l23 to I5c; boiling
beef to Sc sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair; beef
kidneys, lOc apiece; beef liver, sc pound; calf
livers, Is TO Csc apiece corned beef from Toto l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l2& to l5c; outlets, 20c per pound; spring
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, Of prime
quality, brings l21ac; fore quarter, &c; loin Of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Gnrden STUFF.
Potatoes, 15c per half peck; cabbage, 10 to 25c;
new Bermuda potatoes, 20c per quarter peck;
choice Florida tomatoes, Soc a quart; ba-
nanas. 10 TO 2Oc a dozen; carrots, Joe bunch;
lemons, 20 to SOC per dozen; oranges, 35
to Soc; caulIfower 80 to 40c head; lettuce,
to l0c per bunch; beets. new, l0c; green
onions, Sc a bunch; rhubarb, &c a'bunch,
for Zoe; cucumbcrs to l5c apiece; inush-
rooms 81 pound; asparagus, &c bunch;
new peas. 35c a half peck; new beans,
pineapples, Is to 25c apiece: Porto Rico pines,
zoe to 81; eggplant, 10 TO Z5c apiece; squash, 8
to l5c apiece.
Choice creamery butter, 22c. Good country
butter. IA to l6c. Fancy pound rolls, Is to DC.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 2Oc.
The range for dressed chickens is 81 to 81 25
per pair. Spring chickens, 81 25 to 81 76per pair
Turkeys, 25c per rpound Ducks, 81 25 to 81 so
per pair.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to l21Sc;
California salmon, S5c per pound; white fish,
l2Isc; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 TO S0c pound blue fsh, l5c; halibut
20c: rock bass, 25c; black bass, 15c: lake trout,
l21Sc; HOLSTERS, 20c: green sea turtle, 20 to &c
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 75 per gallon; clans.
81 % per gallon; frog legs 75c . pound; soft
shell crabs, 81 SO per dozen.
Flowers.
Jacks, So 90 per dozen; La France. 81 so per
dozen; Mermets, 81 25 per dozen; Brides, 81 25
per dozen; yellow and white. 81 90 per dozen;
Bennetts. 81 25 per dozen; Beauties Soc apiece;
Drummer, SOC apiece; Harrison lilies, 25c apiece;
pansies, 25c per dozen; lily of the valley, 75c
per dozen; heliotrope SOC per dozen; Baroness,
75c each; carnations, Soc per dozen; mignonette,
extra fine, 81 SO per dozen spIrea SOC per dozen.