Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-20
THE MARKET BASKET.
Wintry Weather Quieting to Trade-Floral
Products Higher,

Wintry Weather Quieting TO Trade-Floral
Products Higher.
At the Diamond market fruit and vegetable
stalls quiet weeks trade was reported. The
snow storm which covered the most of the
week had, no doubt, depressing influence on
trade. Prices are essentially the same as they
were last Saturday.
Potatoes are on the advance and jobbng
prices are higher than last week. but not
enough to change retail prices. Cabbage is
also tending upward. Butter. eggs and poultry
are UNCHANGED. continuance of present
wintry weather will have the effect of reducing
supplies and stitfening prices. Prior to the
recent storm fresh eggs we're coming in more
freely, but supplies are now very low and mar
kets very firm.
The bulk of fish now on the stalls is frozen
stock. Fresh cod. haddock and halib1t are
still coming from the Atlantic waters, but all
lake fish offered are frozen. Oysters of high
grade are in limited supply. But for the snow
blockade. preventing the shipment of stock,
there would have been 4 shortage this week in
the line of lake and ocean products As it was,
markets were firm for all desirable fish and
oysters.
There has been a slight advance in oysters at
sources of supply. but no change here. Drum
mers are no longer needed to push the trade.
All choice oysters now sell themselves without
pushing. Florists report active demand for
their products. and prices are advanced all
along the line, as an inspection OF our quota
tions will disclose. Wintry weather and Christ
mas demands never fail to stimulate markets
in noral lines.
Following are retail prices of market basket
filling:
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 20c: chuck roast.
10 to l2c; best round steaks l215 to l5c; boiling
beef, 5to sc sweet breads 20 to 50cper pair; beef
kidneys, lOe apiece; beef liver, SC pound: calf
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l215 to l5c; outlets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality brings l215c; fore quarter SC; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Sweet potatoes, l5c per quarter peck:
cabbage, 10 to l5c; potatoes 20c per half peck;
bananas, Is to 20c a dozen: carrots, sc a bunch;
lemons, 80 to 40c per dozen; oranges, % TO Soc;
cauliflower, 10 to 40c head; lettuce, sc per
bunch; beets. &c per bunch, 35c per dozen;
eucumbers, IL to 25c apiece: apples, Is to zoe
quarter peck; celery. Sc a bunch; pie pumpkins.
10 to DC: Malaga grapes. 2Oc pound.
Choice creamery butter, 35c. Good country
butter. 20 to Csc. Fancy pound rolls, 80 to Sc.
Fresh country eggs. S5c.
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 90
per PAIR: ducks 60c to 81 90; turkeys, I6@lSc
per pound; geese, l2@l3c.
Game.
Venison, 25 to 35c a pound; squirrels, 4Oc pair;
rabbits, 5Oc; quails, 81 dozen; pheasants. 81 90
a pair; woodcock Sc a dozen; snipe, 81 so
dozen; prairie chickens. 81 25 a pair; Mallard
ducks. 81 a 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 l215c;
California salmon 35c per pound; white fish,
l219c: herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish
mackerel, 40c pound; blue fish, l5c; halibut,
&c: rock bass, 25c; black bass l5c; lake trout,
l23%c; 1obsters 2Oc: green sea turtle, 20 to sc.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters 81 % per gallon; CLAIMS, 81 90 per gallon;
smelts, 20c pound
Flowers.
La France. Sc per dozen; Mermets, s495 per
dozen; Brides. S4@5 per dozen; yellow and white
roses. IS per dozen; BENEFITS. 81 per dozen;
Beauties, 81 5092 90; carnations 75c per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, Sc 20 per dozen; violets.
81 90 per 100; heliotrope. 81 90 per dozen; lily
of valley, 81 50 per dozen: camelias, 25c each;
Harrisii, Soc each; hyacinth, 81 90 per dozen.