Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
THE MARKET BASKET.
Varieties of Yegetn bIes md Fruit Large for
the Senson-LIght Demand for
Ocean Products Poultry

Scnrce-Flowers Lower.
1t is very rare that our vegetable stalls are so
laden with the choicest varieties of gar
den products this early in the season as now.
There is nothing better offered in the very
height of the season. than the homegrown let
tuce, rhubarb, asparagus and green onions now
to be found at the Diamond market and this at
rates much lower than the average first fruits
of the year. What is lacking in homegrown
stuff is amply supplied from the sunny South,
whence come spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers,
beets new potatoes. onions, strawberries. and
in fact everything to crafty the most fastidi-
GUS appetite. Such variety of fruits and veg
etables as now to be had in the markets was
something undreamed of in the olden time,
when the fruit and vegetable season was not
one-half Its present length. The situation has
developed no new features the past week as to
staple meats dairy products or eggs. Poultry
is scarce and shows tendencies TO advance.
Florists report their goods as lower, a fact
due to the approach OF spring weather. Ocean
products have undergone no changes the past
week as to price, Trade is only fair for the
Lenten season. and volume has fallen below ex-
pectatIon of dealers. Following are the retail
prices of market basket materials as furnished
by leading dealers:
Staple Menfs.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to Csc, with last figure for very
standing rib roast, from Is to zoe: chuck roast.
10 to 12c; best round steaks 1215 to l5c; boiling
beef to &c. sweet breads 20 to Soc per pair; beef
kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, sc pound; calf
lvers 25 to 35c apiece; corned beef from lot l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast l21a to 15c; outlets, zoe per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality. brings l219c; fore quarter, &c; loin OF
mutton, 15c; giblets, sc per pound.
Garden stuff
Potatoes, 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes 25c per half peck; cabbage, 10 to 25c; new
Bermuda potatoes 30c per quarter peck; choice
Florida tomatoes, ,40c quart; celery, 10 to 15c
bunch; bananas. Is to zoe dozen: carrots, sc
bunch; lemons, 25 to 35c per dozen; oranges, Is
to 4Oc; lettuce, to 1Oc per bunch; beets, new,
10c, old Sc; onions 40c half peck: green onions,
SC bunch bermuda onions, 25c quart;rhubarb,
10c bunch, for 25c; turnips, Z0c per half peck;
apiece: mushrooms, 81 a pound; radishes. SC;
asparagus, zoe bunch; new peas. Soc quarter
peck: Strawberries 35@5Oc quart.
Choice creamery butter, 35c. Good country
butter. Soc. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 2Uc.
The range for dressed chickens is 75c to 81 %
per pair. Turkeys, 20 to Csc per pound Ducks,
81 25 to 81 30 per pair.
Ocenn Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stslls with prices: Lake salmon, 1215c; Cali
fornia salmon. 40c per pound; white fish,
l21ac; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap
pers, Is to 2Oc per pound; Spanish mackerel, Soc
to 35c pound; sea salmon, 40c pound;
blue fish, 25 to 30c; perch, 10c; halibut 25c;
rock bass, 3Oc; black bass, 20c; lake trout, l2ac;
Holsters, 25c: green sea turtle, 2Sc; mackerel,
2Oc small, 40c large. Oysters: N. Y. counts,
81 70 per gallon; clans, 81 % per gallon; scol-
lops Soc quart; frogs, 50 90 per dozen;
soft she'll crabs, rs per dozen; devil crabs, S5c
per dozen.
Flowers.
Jacks, So 90 per dozen; La France, 81 90 per
dozen; Mermets, ST so per dozen; Brides, 81 so
per dozen; yellow and white. 81 90 per dozen;
tulips. SOC per dozen; Bennetts. 81 so per dozen;
Beauties. SOC apiece; Magma Charta, 81 90 apiece;
Harrison lilies, 25c apiece; violets, 81 so hun
dred; lily of the valley, Toe per dozen; Dutch
hyacinths, 81 75 TO 81 90 per dozen; heliotrope,
50c per dozen.