Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-22
THE MARKET BASKET.
Ocean Products Scarce and Firm-Poultry
in Excess of Demand.

Ocean Products Scarce and Firm-Poultry
in Excess of Demand.
In the line of Sunday dinner materials there
are few changes in the week past. Poultry is
coming in freely, and prices are a shade lower
in iobbing way, but retail prices are substan.
TALLY as they were last Saturday. The same is
true of game With the near approach of
Thanksgiving, poultry and game is booming at
the expense of the old reliable meats. 1t has
become so much the fashion to give thanks
over turkey that beef, mutton and pork are
forced to the rear in the latter part of Novem-
ber In the line OF lake and ocean products
demand is in excess OF supply Supply OF
choice oysters is short, and prices are almost
as high in Baltimore rs in Pitts
burg. Prospects are that there will be
an advance in prices at an early day.
The time is near when the catch of fish will
terminate for this season. Supply of white
fish, and in fact all kinds excepting herring,
has been below demand for some time past.
There is little doubt OF an advance in the line
of all ocean products in the near future. vege-
tables are dull and slow. All garden products
have been begging for buyers in the past week.
The only article in country produce line that is
active and strong is hen fruit. Fresh nearby
eggs are very scarce. Florists report an active
demand and upward movement of prices for
their goods. Our quotations are advanced in
case.
Following are latest retail prices Of market
basket materials:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin best cuts, from Is to lSc;
standing rib roast from l5 to 20c: chuck roast
10 to l2c: best rouId steaks, l214 to I5c boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to SOC per pairs beef
kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, SC pound; calf
ivers 25 to 35c apiece; corned beef from toto l2c
n0nnd
roast, l215 to l5c; cuslets 0c per pound; spring
lambs fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton hind quarter, of prime
quality brings l214c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, S to 1Oc; potatoes. zoe per half peck;
tomatoes, l5c quarter peck; bananas Is to 20c
dozen; carrots, SC bunch: lemons, 80 to 4Oc
per dozen; oranges, Is to Soc; caulI1ower, 15 to
40c head; lettuce, SC per bunch; beets.
&c per bunch, 35c per dozen: cucumbers Is to 25c
apiece: beans. 20c a half peck; apples, Is to
2Oc quarter peck; celery. 6c bunch; Lima
beans. 35c quart; eggplant, 10 to l5c apiece;
squash, SC apiece; pie pumpkins. 10 to 25c; Della
ware and Niagara grapes, &c pound; Concord
grapes, sc pound.
butter. 20 to,25c. Fancy pound rolls, 80 to 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 26c
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 90
per pair: ducks, 60c to 81 90; turkeys, l6QlSc;
Game.
Venison. 35e a pound; squirrels, 40c pair;
rabbits, 40c; quails, 81 dozen; pheasants. 81 so
a pair; woodcock, So dozen; snipe 81 so a
dozen; prairie chickens 81 25 pair: Mallard
ducks, 81 pair; butter ducks, Soc pair; jack
rabbits, 81 apiece.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon 10 to 121Sc;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
l213c; herring, pounds for sc; Spanish
mackerel. 40c pound: blue fish, l5c; halibut
20c: rock bass, 25c; black bass. 15c; lake trout
123&c; HOLSTERS, 20c: green turtle, 20 to &c.
oysters: n. Y. counts, 50 90 per gallon; clans,
81 so per gallon; smelts, 2Oc pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 90 per dozen; Mermets, 81 so
per dozen; Brides, 81 so per dozen; yellow and
white. 81 % per dozen; Bennetts 81 Is per dozen;
Beauties, 10c apiece; carnations, Soc per dozen;
chrysanthemums, 81 so to 81 90 per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, 81 90 per dozen; violets,
81 so per 100; heliotrope. SOC per dozen; lily
of valley, 81 so per dozen; dahlias Soc per dozen.