Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-28
THE MARKET BASKET.
Tho End OF the Strawberry sensou-Rasp.
berries and Other Small FruIts Coming
in-ButIer and Eggs
Little Higher.


The crop Of homegrown strawberries has
failed to come up to expectations. This week
practically puts an end to supplies in this line.
The few on sale of choice quality arc bringing
25c per quart. Homegrown raspberries. goose
berries and currants are now in fair supply.
Southern blackberries are now on the stalls,
and homegrown are expected by another week.
In the line of dairy products few new features
have developed the past week. In jobbing
way. creamery butter and eggs are a shade
higher than they were last Saturday. but the
advance has not been sufficient to make any
marked change in retail markets. Tomatoes
and potatoes hold up well to prices OF q
week ago. Demand for choice stock has been
fully up to supply all the week, and old prices
are well maintained. In jobbing way South
ern potatoes are from so to 75c per barrel higher
than last Saturday. Retailers have not as yet
made any material change in prices. Poultry
Is In good demand at Quotations.
TROPICAL fruits are unchanged. Lemons are
very nrm, and prices are running upward, a
fact attributed to hot weather.
Florists report this as one of the busiest
weeks Of the season. The International Sun
day School Convention has made heavy de-
mands upon their goods. and the wedding crop
has been above the average. The extreme
heat has also had the effect of increasing de-
mand for choice goods in floral lines. All in
all, this has been one of the best weeks of the
year for florists. The effect has been to lift
prices The advance, however, is only tenn
back to the old level when the rush is over.
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to Csc. with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin best cuts, from 15 to 1Sc;
standing rib roast, from l5 to 2Oc; chuck roast
10 to 12c; best round steaks l213 to l5c; boiling
beef, ito Sc; sweet breads 20 to 50cper pair beef
kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, &c pound; calf
ivers, rs to 35c apiece corned beef from 10 to l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast. l2a to l5c; outlets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
quality brings l211c; fore quarter, &c; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Garden stuff.
Cabbage, 10 to Zoe; new potatoes. 25c per half
peck; choice Florida tomatoes 20c quart box;
bananas, Is to 20c a dozen: carrots, &c bunch;
lemons, 20 to 30c per dozen; oranges, 35
TO Soc; caullfiower, homegrown, Is to 25c a
head; lettuce, &c per bunch; beets, Sc per bunch,
35c per dozen: green onions, 2 bunohes for SC;
cucumbers, to 10c apiece; asparagus, &c a
bunch; new peas. Soc q half peck; new beans.
Csc half peck; strawberries. 10 to Csc q
quart, home grown; black raspberries, 20c a
quart, home grown, red, 25c, home grown;
quart; pineapples, 10 to l5c apiece; eggplant,
10 TO 15c apiece: squash. to l5c apiece; water
melons. 20 to Soc apiece; cantaloupes, 10 to 40c
apiece; California apricots and peaches, Csc a
quar- DO4
Choice creamery butter, zoe. Good country
butter. IL to 14c. Fancy pound rolls, Is to 20c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 20c.
The range for dressed chickens is 81 to 81 25
per pair.
Ocenn Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the STALLS with prices: Lake salmon 10 to 1211fc;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
1211c; herring pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to 30c a pound; blue fish, l5c; halibut
20c: rock bass, Csc; black bass, 15c; lake trout,
1215c; Holsters, 2Oc: green sea turtle 20 to 25c.
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 75per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon: frog legs. 75c pound; soft
shell crabs, 81 to 81 rs per dozen; frogs, 81 .
dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Jacks, 81 Is per dozen; La France. 81 25 per
dozen; Mermets, 81 % per dozen; Brides. 81 rs
per dozen; yellow and white. 75c per dozen;
Bennetts. 81 90 per dozen; Beauties, Csc apiece;
Harrison lilies, Csc apiece; pansies. 10c per
dozen; heliotrope. Soc per dozen; carnations. Soc
per dozen; peonIes 81 per dozen; Madame
Planter, 75c per dozen; Gabrielle Luizet, Zoe
apiece.