Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
THE MARKET BASKET.
Advance in Dairy Products and ERg-Oleo
Makes Its Appearance-Tomatoe
Cheup-Fish Very scarce
Prices of SfouIes.

Prices oil sfnpies.
The features of the week as to the kitchen
| market are the sharp advance in dairy prod
ucts and reliable eggs. Fancy creamery butter
/ is from 4c to &c higher in jobbing way than it
was a week ago. The advance in butter has had
the effect of bringing from its hiding places
large quantities of oleO. Tomatoes have
| touched their lowest point this season within
| few days and should be the cheapest vegetable
! in the market The best have been selling at 100
per bushel. Watermelons are also very plenty,
and are very much improved in size and quail
Ity. The quality of grapes on the market has
also very much improved, and there was wide
room, for those offered so far this season have
been, in the main of inferior quality. At the
fish stalls the same report heard for weeks past
| was given. namely, great scarcity OF stock. De-
mand for Western fish far exceeds supply. Said
one of our leading jobbers: Il could have sold
twice the amount of stuff was able to secure
the past week. Not for years has the supply
been so light at this time of the year."
Florists report light trade with no change
| in prices.
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin ssteak range
| from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
| fancy; sirloin. best cuts, from Is to 1Sc;
| standing rib roast, from 10 to zoe; chuck roast.
10 to 12c; best rouEd steaks, 12< to l5c; boiling
beef to SC; sweet breads 20 to50 per pair; beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, &c pound; calf
|
| per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, 1215 to l5c; outlets, Nc per pound; spring
| lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l215c; fore quarter, &c; loin OF
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, 5 to 1Oc; potatoes, zoe per half peck;
tomatoes, 1Oc quarter peck; bananas. Is to Zoe
| dozen: carrots, &c bunch; lemons. 80 to 40c
per dozen; oranges, IS TO Soc; caullfiower 10 to
| 35c head; lettuce, sc per bunch; beets, &c per
| bunch, 35c per dozen; rucumbers, &c apiece, 6
| for Csc; peas. 35c half peck; beans. 35c half
| peck; apples, 2Oc a quarter peck; blackberries.
15 to Zoe q quart; huckleberries. 15c a quart;
celery &c bunch; roasting ears, 20 to Csc doz.;
| eggplant, 10 to l5c apiece; squash. &c apiece;
| pie pumpkins 10 to Soc; watermelons. 20 TO 4Oc
| apricots and peaches, IS to Soc dozen; German
s5c.
Choice creamery butter, SOC. Good country
butter. Is to zoe. Fancy pound rolls, 30 to 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs Is Sc.
The range for dressed chickens Is Soc TO 81 90
| per PAIR; ducks, 6oc to 81 90.
Ocean Products.
r F-osforx-rr-are gne artfv1cs IN This nl.o-su
! the stalls with prices: Lake salmon 10 to 121<e
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
1215c; herring, pounds for &c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to Soc pound; blue fish, 15c; halibut
Zoe; rock bass, Csc; black bass. 15c; lake trout
121dc HOLSTERS Zoe: green sea turtle, 20 to &c
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 rs per gallon; clans,
81 Is per gallon: frog legs, 75c a pound; soft
shell crabs, 81 rs to 81 so per dozen; frogs 81
dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 25 per dozen; Mermets, 81 25
per dozen; Brides, 81 Is per dozen; yellow and
white. 75c per dozen, Bennetts. 81 90 per dozen;
Beauties, Csc apiece; carnations. soc per dozen;
Elium duratum, 20c apiece; gladislus, 81 dozen;
hydraryea, 20c apiece; sweet peas SC dozen.