Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-31
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THE MARKET BASKET.
Features of Fruit and Vegetable Trade Dur
ing the Week-suppiies Abundant
Butter and Berries Cheaper
Large sales of Flowers.

The features of markets for the week past
have been the drop in butter and strawberries.
Supplies in both lines are far in excess of de-
mand, not only here, but all over the land.
Butter has not been SO much Of a drug in the
past decade, nor have prices been so low. AT
ElgIn the best creamery is slow at l415c per
pound and good country butter is poor stock
here at 10 to 12c per pound in q jobbing way.
The housewife who pays SOC for country butter,
as it is reported peddlers are getting this week
at the East End, is paying So per cent above the
actual value.
The week to come will be the best Of the year
for strawberries. A fair article has been
selling as low as &c by the crate within day or
two. The best should be had at l5c per quart
in retail way. In vegetable lines supplies are
SG1s %ns prices e sfs dsenfns fgsN New
potatoes are coming in freely, and prices are
fas- approaching old stock.
The greatest activity the past week has been
in the flower trade. Sales were larger than
any week of the year, or any previous year.
Some of our florists report inability to meet
orders. It is evident that the annual sacrament
of flowers in honor of the martyred patriots
is every year gaining a firmer hold on the
popular heart
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 lSc;
standing rib roast, from Is to 20c: chuck roast.
10 to l2c; best round steaks, l21S to 5c; boiling
beef, 5to SCI sweet breads 20 to Soc per pairs beef
kidneys l0c apiece; beef liver. &c a pound; calf
vers, Is to S5c apiece; corned beef from Toto l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l21z to l5c; cuslets 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l215e; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Garden STUFF.
Potatoes. l5c per half peck; cabbage, 10 to Csc;
new Southern potatoes, 25c per half peck;
choice Florida tomatoes, SOC a quart; ba-
nanas Is to zoe a dozen: carrots JOc bunch;
lemons, 20 to 3Oc per dozen; oranges, IS
to Soc; caulIhower, 80 to 40c head; lettuce,
to lOc per bunch: beets. new, l0c; green
onions, sc bunch; rhubarb, sc bunch, @
for 25c; cucumbers, 5 to I5c apiece: mush-
rooms, 81 pound; asparagus, &c bunch;
25c half peck; strawberries. lG to l5c quart;
pineapples, 10 TO Zoe apiece: Porto Rico pines
76c to 81; eggplant, Is to 25c apiece; squash,
to 15c apiece.
Cholce creamery butter 2oc. Good country
butter Il to l4c Fancy pound rolls, 15 to 20c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 20c.
The range for dressed chickens is 81 to 81 Is
per pair: Spring s chicken 81 2Stos 81 g per gaiE
per pair.
Occnn Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 12zc;
California salmon. S5c per pound; white fish,
l215c; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to SOC pound; blue tish, l5c; halibut,
20c; rock bass, 25c; black bass, l5c; lake trout,
l21c; HOLSTERS, zoe: green sea turtle, 20 to Csc.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 75 per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon; frog legs, 75c pound; soft
she'll crabs, 81 so per dozen.
Flowers.
Jacks, IS 90 per dozen; La France. 81 50 per
dozen; Mermets, 81 Is per dozen Brides, 81 25
per dozen; yellow and white. 81 90 per dozen;
Bennetts. 81 25 per dozen; Beauties Soc apiece;
Brunner. SOC apiece; Harrison lilies Csc apiece:
pansles, 25c per dozen; lily of the valley 75c
per dozen; heliotrope. Soc per dozen; Baroness,
75c each; carnations, Soc per dozen; mignonetta,
extra fne, 81 50 per dozen; spirea Soc per dozen.