Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-26
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Market Basket Material and What it Costs
Poultry High, Staple Meat Un.
changed-Good Supply
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There are few new developments in market
basket materials since last Saturday Straw.
berries are coming in more freely and prices
| are lower.
The first new beans Of the season are on the
| stalls at Diamond markets. Poultry is still
scarce and high. The spring chickens which
are offered are of diminutive size and colossal
price. Butter and eggs are down to their low.
est point for this season. Good country roll
| butter is sold in a jobbing way, at l5c per
| pound, and the best eggs at l21Sc per dozen.
Sweet potatoes and tomatoes are q shade
| mgner than last week. owing to scarcity. As
parasus Is now coming to market in fine quail.
| lty, and prices are drifting lower.
Standard meats change not whatever be the
| fluctuations OF live stock markets. Butchers
] report that high-priced ice the coming season
will narrow their margins of profit and that a
| reduction is out of the question.
In the line of lake and ocean products supply
mas been fully up to demand for the week past.
Stormy weather has prevented full catch on
the lakes and there has been shortage of some
kinds of lake fish for a few days. The season
for shad is now at its best and consumption is
heavy. i',a w. White nsh are not yet in fali supply,
than last. The oyster season draws near to its
close. After May day the laws of Maryland
and Virginia forbid the gathering of oysters,
and only New York counts will then be on the
stalls.
Florists report an active trade in their line,
with prices unchanged.
Following are latest prices as furnished by
leading retail dealers:
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 Is to 2Oc: chuck roast,
10 to l2c; best round steaks 121S to l5c; boiling
beef, to Sc sweet breads 20 SOC per pair: beef
kidneys, lOc apiece; beef liver, SC pound; calf
liyers 5 to 35c apiece; corned beef from 10 l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, IN to l5c; cuIlets 2Oc per pound: spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
quality, brings l213c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, 15c; glblets, &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Potatoes, l5c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes 35c per half peck; cabbage, 10 to 25c; new
Bermuda potatoes 25c per quarter peck; choice
Florida tomatoes, SOC quart; celery, 10 to l5c a
bunch; bananas, Is to 2Oc a dozen; carrots, Sc a
bunch; lemons, 25 to 35c per dozen; oranges, 25
TO 4Oc; lettuce, 5 to l0c per bunch; beets. new,
l0c, old SC; onions, 40c half peck: green onions,
DC bunch;Bermuda onions, ,20c quart:rhubarb,
&c bunch, 8 for 25c; turnips, 20c per half peck;
cranberries, 2Oc quart: eucumbers Is to 20c
apiece: mushrooms, 81 a pound; radishes, SC
bunch: asparagus. l5e bunch; new peas, SOC
a quarter peck; new beans. Soc quarter peck;
strawberries, 2OQSOc quart; pineapples, Is to
2oc apiece.
Choice creamery butter, 25c. Good country
butter, 2Qc. Fancy pound rolls, 20 to Csc.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 14c
The range for dressed chickens is 81 to 81 25
per pair. Spring chickens 81 25 to 81 75 per pair
Turkeys, Csc erpound. Ducks, 81 25 to 81 80
per pair.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the STALLS with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to l21Sc;
California salmon, 35c per pound; white fish,
l214c; herring, pounds for 25c: Spanish mack
erel, 25 to 3Oc pound; blue fish, l5c; halibut,
zoe: rock bass. 25c; black bass, l5c; lake trout,
l213c; Holsters, 20c: green sea turtle 20 to 25c.
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 70 per gallon; CLANS
81 25 per gallon; scollops, Soc quart; frog
legs, 75c a pound; soft shell crabs, 81 so per
dozen.
Jacks, So 90 per dozen; La France, 81 so per
dozen; Mermets, 81 Is per dozen; Brides. 81 25
per dozen; yellow and white. 81 90 per dozen;
tulips Soc per dozen; Bennetts, 81 25 per dozen;
Beauties, SOC apiece; Brunner, Soc apiece;
Harrison lilies, 25c apiece; violets, 81 so hun
dred; lily of the valley, 75c per dozen; Dutch
hyacinths, 81 rs TO 81 90 per dozen; heliotrope
Soc per dozen; mignonette, extra fine 81 so per
dozen; spIrea, soc per dozen.