Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-25
THE MARKET BASKET.
Trade Quiet Since the Exposition Closed
Vegetables Low for the Season-Select
Oysters Scarce-Eggs and
Butter Scarce.

Butter Scarce.
There have been few changes in the line Of
market basket filling the past week. At the
Diamond market fruit and vegetable stalls
trade is reported quiet since the close of the
Exposition.
Vegetables of all kinds are very cheap for
this season OF the year, with potatoes as the
exception. Killing frosts have been withheld
three weeks beyond their usual time, and hence
garden stuff is in abundant supply. 1t is very
rare thing that tomatoes are not nipped
before the last week of october. Cabbage,
turnips, radishes, beets and onions have not for
years been so low this late in the season as they
are now. Lima beans and cueumbers are scarce
and on the advance. In the line OF ocean prod
ucts demand is fully up to the supply. Select
oysters are scarce. The same is true OF span
ish mackereL. The latter are selling at 4Oc a
pound In Baltimore, and hard to get Soft
she'll crabs are about done for this season.
Butter and eggs that can be warranted as
strictly fresh are steadily climbing up higher,
but retail prices are little changed from last
week. Florists report quietness for the week:
The effect Of the Exposltion's close is felt all
along the line of market basket materials.
Following are latest retail prices of market
basket filling:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to &C. 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, l2% to I5c; boiling
beef, to Sc; sweet breads 20 to Soc per pair; beef
kidneys. lOc apiece; beef liver. &C pound; calf
nvers % to 35c apiece corned beef from 10 to l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast l21z to 15c; outlets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l215c; fore quarter, &c; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets. SC per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, to 10c; potatoes. zoe per half peck;
tomatoes, lOca quarter peck; bananas, Is to 20c
dozen: carrots, sc bunch; lemons, 81 to 4Oc
per dozen; oranges, 25 to Soc; caulIhower, 10 to
40c a head: lettuce, SC per bunch; beets
&c per bunch, 35c per dozen: cucumbers, 10c, 3
for 25c: beans. 2Oc half peck; apples, 10 to
2Oc quarter peck; celery, Sc bunch; roasting
ears. ~ to 25c dozen; Lima beans 35c quart;
eggplant, ~ TO l5c apiece: squash. &c apiece;
pie pumpkins. 10 to Csc; Delaware and Niagara
Cholce creamery butter, soc. Good country
butter, 20 10 25c. Fancy pound rolls, 30 to 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c.
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 90
per pair; ducks, Soc to 81 90.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 12kc;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
l215c; herring, pounds for sc: Spanish
mackerel, 40c pound; blue fish, l5c; halibut
20c: rock bass, 25c; black bass l5c; lake trout,
l21Sc; HOLSTERS 20c: green sea turtle, 20 to 2oc.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 IS per gallon; clans.
81 25 per gallon: soft shell crabs, 81 so 20 50 so
per dozen; smelts, zoe pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 50 per dozen; Mermets, 81 Is
per dozen; Brides. 81 25 per dozen; yellow and
white 81 25 per dozen; Bennetts 81 25 per dozen;
Beauties SOC apiece; carnations, Soc per dozen;
chrysanthemuns, 81 so to 81 00 per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, 81 90 per dozen; violets.
81 50 per 100: heIiotrope. SOC per dozen; lily
of valley 81 50 per dozen; dahias, Soc per dozen.