Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-28
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Eggs Lower and Vegetables and Fruits Are
UNCHANGED.

Eggs Lower and Vegetables and Fruits Are
Unchanged.
The feature of the week in the line of mar
ket basket filling has been the sharp decline in
eggs. Last Saturday 3Oc'per dozen was the rul-
ing retail price, while now they are little above
2Oc per dozen. At the Diamond Market fruit
and vegetable stalls fair weeks trade is re-
ported with prices practically the same as they
were last Saturday. New vegetables are COM
ing in more freely from the South. but there
mas Teen no material change in prices.
Inc choicest celery rhuDarb and asparagus
are on the stalls. Strawberries are ip fair sup
ply, but demand is light.
Florists and dealers in ocean products are
reaping their richest harvest this closing week
OF Lent. Said one of our leading florists:
" olulne Of trade in our line has broken all
precedents. We made extra preparations to
meet demand for Easter flowers, but our prepa-
rations were none too great. Every year the
demand for Easter flowers grows. and. though
prices are advanced our products are all ab-
sorbed. This has been the best week in our
line we have known, and still there's more TO
come. The flowers for this Easter were never
surpassed in beauty and fragrrnce."
At the fish stalls great scarcity of cod and
haddock was reported. Small salmon are not
to be had for love or money. Only herring are
in good supply. The season for frozen fish is
now over and owing to ice in the lakes, the
catch OF fresh fish has been SO far inadequate
to demand. Retail prices of fish are unchanged.
though prices are higher at sources of supply.
Following are latest retail prices of market
basket filling:
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 1Sc;
standing rib roast, from Is to Zoe; chuck roast.
10 to 12c; best round steaks 121S to l5c; boiling
beef SC; sweet breads 20 to 50c per pair; beef
kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, SC pound; calf
x IN 2Sp Da1 hoo n
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, 12h to l5c; cuGlets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings 1215c; fore quarter, &c; loin of
mutton, 15c; giblets, SC per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Sweet potatoes, 15c per quarter peck:
cabbage, 10 to l5c; potatoes. 25c per half
peck; Bermuda potatoes, Soc a quarter
bananas, 10 to 20c a dozen: carrots, &c a
bunch; tomatoes, 4Oc a quart; lemons, 80
to 40c per dozen; oranges, Is to 40c;
caullfower, 10 to 4Oc head; lettuce S to l0c per
bunch: beets. &c per bunch, 5c per dozen:
new beets. 10c a bunch; asparagus. 20c o
bunch: radishes, &c bunch; cucumbers. Is to
zoe apiece: apples. Is to 2Oc quarter peck;
celery. s to lOc a bunch; Malaga grapes, 2to a5c
Choice creamery butter, Soc. Good country
Dutter, 70 to 30c. Fancy pound rolls, 30 to 35c.
Strictly fresh eggs. 23c dozen: goose eggs.
S5c dozen; duck eggs. 45c dozen.
The range for dressed chickens is 75c to 81 %
per pair: ducks 60c to 81 90; turkeys IL to 20c
per pound; geese II to l3c.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 15c;
California salmon. 35 to 40c per pound; white fish,
l214 to I5c: herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish
mackerel, 40c pound; blue tsh, l5c;
halibut, 2Oc; rock bass, 25c; lake trout
l21&c; Holsters, ZOc: green sea turtle, 20 to &c
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters 81 % per gallon; CLAIMS. 81 so per galion
smets, 20c pound; shad, 75c to 81 so each;
scallops, 20c pound.