Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
THE MARKET BASKET.
A Good Week for Fruits and Vegetables,
But Not for Fish or Gnme.

A Good Week for Fruits and Vegetables,
But Not for Fish or Gnme.
At the fruit and vegetable stalls . good
weeks trade was reported, with scarcely any
change in prices, and no new articles in the
offerings.
Eggs have been gradually drifting to lower
level for weeks past, owing to mild weather,
but there has been no perceptible change in re-
tail markets the past week.
Ocean products are quie'.
Only frozen fish are now in the stalls, and
demand is light.
Choice oysters are in light supply. and
dealers report difficulty meeting all demands
for this grade.
Game is practically thing of the past
Staple meats seldom change, no matter what
the ups and downs of the live stock markets
may be. Tenderloin steaks and choice rib
roasts are the same now as yea- ago. when
beeves were &c per pound higher than they are
to-day.
Florists report trade active, and demand for
their products first class at old rates.
Following are the retail prices of the market
basket filling as furnished by leading dealers.
Staple Ments.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 TO 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from 15 to 1sc;
standing rib roast, from 10 to zoe; chuck
roast. 10 to 12c; best round steaks, I5c; boiling
beef, S to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to SOC per pair;
calf livers, 25c apiece; corned beef from to l0c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l2118 to 15c; cuslets 2Oc per pound spring
lambs fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
15c. A leg of mutton hind quarter, Of prime
quality, brings l21lc; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, SC per pound.
Garden STUFF.
Potatoes. 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes Csc per half peck; cabbage, to 10c;
caulihower, 75c to 81 each; tomatoes, S5c
a quart; celery, SC a bunch; bananas
Is to zoe dozen; carrots, SC bunch; lemons Is
to S5c per dozen; oranges, Is to 4Oc; lettuce,
Sc per bunch, for 25c; beets, 8 for 1Oc;
string beans, 35c a quarter peck; onions, 20
to S5c half peck; Spanish onions, to
lOc each; pie pumpkins, 10 to 35c, according
to size; Malaga grapes. 20 to S5c per pound;
turnips z0c per half peck; cranberries, l5c
quart; Gucumbers, Is to 35c apiece: mushrooms,
81 a pound; Bermuda onions, 351zc per peck;
Key West tomatoes. Soc quart; radishes. &c
bunchi beets, l5c bunch; asparagus, Csc q
bunch; strawberries, 75cQSl quart
Choice creamery butter, 35c. Good country
butter, 30c. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 2Oc
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81
per pair. Turkeys, Is to zoe per pound. Prairie
chickens, 81 90 a pair; ducks, 81 90 to 81 Is per
pair,
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stSlls with prices: Lake salmon, I21<c; CALI
fornia salmon, 4Oc per pound; white fish,
l276ci herring, pounds for Z5c; red snap
pers, Is to zoe per pound; Spanish mackerel, 3Oc
to S5c pound; sea salmon, 4Oc a pound;
blue fish, 25 to Soc; perch, l0c; halibut. 25c;
rock bass, 30c; black bass 20c lake trout, 121fc;
Holsters, 25c: green sea turtle, 2Sc; mackerel
zoe small, 4Oc large. Oysters: n. Y. counts,
81 rs per gallon; clans, 81 25 per gallon; scOl-
lops 5Oc quart; frogs, 81 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, rs per dozen; devil crabs, S5c
per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses, So per dozen; Mermets, 81 50
per dozen; Brides, 81 so per dozen; yellow and
white. 81 so per dozen; American Beauties 81
to 81 so apiece; Magma Charta 81 TO 81 so apiece;
lilies, So bunch; tulips, 75c per dozen; vfolets
a a hundrad