Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-06
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Eggs and Country Butter Looking Up
Ocean Products in Demand.

Eggs and Country Butter Looking Up
Ocean Products in Demand.
Fresh eggs and country butter are on the ad-
vance, and our quotations are moved upward
in accordance with facts. Poultry has been
dull and weak since the Thanksgiving glur,
and markets are SLOW There is manifest dis
position on the part of the consumer to give
the digestive apparatus a rest after Thanks
giving. in order to get ready for Christ
mas turkey and other accompaniments. Lake
and ocean products are quiet. BY another
week frozen stock will be on the stalls. Sup
ply of oysters is only fair. When the Ice crops,
as it may at any time, there will no doubt be a
scarcity. About half the time of late the SUD-
ply of select oysters has been below the de-
mand.
There is fair supply of salmon, white fish,
herring and Mackinac trout from the lakes.
From the East haddock, cod and rock bass are
still in fair supply, but price of the latter IS
steep for the ordinary purse. Hothouse toma-
toes, cucumbers and mushrooms are on the
stalls for the epicure who can afford to pay for
such luxuries.
Florists report quiet trade. but expect great
things from now to Christmas Prices are un-
changed, but will undoubtedly advance IN the
next few days.
Butchers are like the Medes and Persians.
Their laws change not, whatever the ups or
downs of live stock may be. Steaks and roasts
are the same In price now. when good beeves
sell at 81 50 to S. 90 per cwt, as when they
brought s6 so to 81 10.
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin. best cuts, from 10 to 1Sc;
standing rib roast, from 15 to 20c; chuck roast.
10 to 12c; best rouId steaks, l21 to l5c; boiling
beef to SC; sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair beef
kidneys. lOc apiece; beef liver &c a pound; calf
iivers 25 to 35c apiece corned beef from lOto l2c
| per pound. Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast, l21a to l5c; cuslets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lor na for rn
! 15c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
( quality brings l21ac; fore quarter, &c; loin OF
; mutton, l5c; giblets. &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
| Sweet potatoes, 15c per quarter peck:
| cabbage, 5 to 10c; potatoes. 20c per half peck;
| bananas, Is to 20c 4 dozen: carrots, &c bunch;
lemons, 80 to 40c per dozen; oranges. 25 TO Soc;
| caullfower, Is to 40c head; lettuce, &C per
| bunch: beets. &c per bunch, S5c per dozen;
cucumbers, ID to Csc apiece: apples, Is to Zoe a
quarter peck; celery. SC a bunch; pie pumpkins.
| 10 to 25c; Concord grapes, &c pound; Catawbas,
1oc pound; Malaga grapes. 2uc pound.
| Choice creamery butter, Csc. Good country
butter. 20 to 25c. Fancy pound rolls, 30 to 35c.
| Fresh country eggs. 35c.
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 90
per PAIR: ducks. 6oc to 81 90; turkeys. l6Slsc
| per pound; geese, 129l3c.
| Game.
venison. 25 to 35c pound; squirrels, ,4Oc pair;
4
pair; woodcock. Sc dozen; snipe, 81 so a
! dozen; prairie chickens. 81 % q 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 121zc;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
1255ac: herring, pounds for &c; Spanish
mackerel, 40c pound; blue tsh, 15c; halibut,
| III haoo NJ lnnr INaca 1E0. lalro
l21%c; HOLSTERS. Zoe: green turtle, 20 to &c.
| Oysters: Y. Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters 81 % per gallon; CLAIMS, 81 so per gallon:
| smelts, 20c pound.
| Flowers.
La France, SO 90 per dozen; Mermets, 81 so
per dozen; Brides. 81 so per dozen; yellow and
white. 81 25 per dozen; Bennetts 81 so per dozen;
Beauties. 81 90; carnations. Soc per dozen;
| chrysanthemums, 81 80 to 81 90 per dozen;
| Duchess of Albany 81 so per dozen; violets.
| 81 so per 100; heliotrope, SOC per dozen; lily
| of valley, 81 80 per dozen; cameias, 25c each;
| Harrison, 35c each; hyacinth, 81 90 per dozen.