Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-12
THE MARKET BASKET.
Butter and Eggs Cheaper-An Active De-
mand for Vegetables and Fruits
Not Enough Fish-Ruiipg
Prices of staples.

Not Enough Fish-Ruiips
Prices of staples.
In the line of kitchen market materials the
market feature of the week past has been the
decline in butter and eggs. Hen fruit IN a Joo-
bling way, is now very close to l2c per dozen.
Creamery butter dropped 215c at Elgin on MON
day, and the lay down price here Is ntIie' IL
any, above 2lc per pound. Pasturage Is unu-
sually good for the time of the year, and the
result is seen in the weakening of butter prices.
Oleo is on the wane, as the genuine stuff grows
plenty. In vegetable and fruit lines the week
has been active in retail trade, while prices
have not materially changed. =
Southern fruits and vegetables have been
very scarce for a week past, owing to heavy
frosts around the Gulf of Mexico. 1t was
thought week ago that the talk OF frosts In
that section was only scare. 1t proves now
to be based on facts Florida tomatoes and
strawberries, which were plenty on the mark
cts a week or two ago, are of late very scarce.
Asparagus from the South is Still in GOOD sup
ply. Home grown rhubarb made It's nrst ap-
pearance on the stalls this week.
In the line of ocean products trade has very
much improved within the past few days.
Frozen fish are now out of the market. Fresh
caught fish are not in supply up to demand
Good shad from the Delaware and Susquehan-
are coming in freely. There is also lair
supply of fresh Goldfish at 10 cents per pound.
So1t-shell crabs are to be had at 81 5Oper dozen,
Il
report lively demand for their products since
Easter. with no material change in prices.
Staple meats rarely change. whatever live stock
prices may be.
ket basket filling as furnished by leading retail
dealers:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to Csc, 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 rouId steaks 1215 to l5c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to 50cp per pair: beef
kidneys. lOc apiece; beef liver, SC pound; calf
lvers 25 to 35c apiece; corned beef from lotto l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast l212 to l5c; outlets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to lie; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings 121kc; fore quarter, SC; loin Of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Potatoes. 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes. Csc per half peck; cabbage, 10 to Csc; new
Bermuda potatoes. SOC per quarter peck; choice
Florida tomatoes, 40c quart; celery, 10 to l5c
bunch; bananas. Is to 20c a dozen: carrots, &c
bunch; lemons, 25 to 35c per dozen; oranges, Is
TO 40c; lettuce, 5 to lOc per bunch; beets. new,
l0c, old SC; onions 40c half peck; green onions,
sc bunch bermuda onions, ,25c aquart:rhubarb,
&C bunch 6 for 25c; turnips, 20c per half peck;
cranberries, 20c quart; cucumbers 10 to 2Oc
apiece: mushrooms, 81 pound; radishes, DC:
asparagus, 20c bunch; new peas Soc quarter
peck; strawberries. 3505Oc quart.
Choice creamery butter, &c. Good country
butter. 25c Fancy pound rolls, Soc,
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 15c.
The range for dressed chickens is 81 to 81 %
per pair. Spring chickens, 81 So per pair.
Turkeys, Csc per pound. Ducks, 81 25 to 81 so
per pair.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to l214c;
California salmon, 35e per poundi white fish,
l21ac; herring, pounds for z5c; Spanish mach
erel, 25 to Soc a pound; blue fish, l5c; halibut,
zoe: rock bass, Csc; black bass, 15c; lake trout,
l2Ic; HOLSTERS, 2Oc: green sea turtle, 20 to 2oc.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 70 per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon; scollops, Soc q quart; frog
legs, 75c a pound; soft she'll crabs, 81 80 per
dozen.
Jacks, sS 90 per dozen; La France. 81 90 per
dozen; Mermets, 81 Is per dozen; Brides, 81 25
per dozen; yellow and white. 81 90 per dozen;
tulips Soc per dozen; Bennetts, 81 25 per dozen;
Beauties, SOC apiece; Magma Charta, 81 90 apiece;
Harrison lilies, Csc apiece; violets, 81 so hun
dred; lily of the valley, 75c per dozen; Dutch
hyacinths, 81 rs to 81 90 per dozen; heliotrope,
50c per dozen.