Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
THE MARKET BASKET.
New Potatoes From Bermuda in the Stalls
Effect of Approach of Lent,

New Potatoes From Bermuda in the Stalls
Effect of Approach of Lent.
The first new potatoes of the season were in
the stalls at Diamond market the past few
days. Their native soil is Bermuda. Bermuda
onions are also to the front.
Dealers In garden products report a slight
improvement in trade this week. Prices are in
the main the same as a week ago At the fish
stalls the near approach of Lent is felt as a
quieting influence on trade. Supply of fish is
light, but demand corresponds. Dealers report
that prices are relatively much higher at
sources of supply than here, and that profits
are SO small as to make it not worth while to
push trade.
Pouitry, eggs and butter are a shade lower
than last Saturday. in jobbing way. but not
enough lower to make aay impression on retail
markets. Country butter OF fair quality is
jobbed at lSc per h, but fancy rolls keep up to
the old high rates The quality of celery on
the stalls was never finer at this season of the
year than at the present time. Florists report
an extra weeks trade. dor the same reason
that lake and ocean products are quiet and
slow flowers are active. Society is now getting
in its best work, and demand in the floral line
is demonstration of the fact.
While prices are unchanged florists have all
they can do to meet the demands for their
goods.
and Persians, that they never change, what
ever the ups and downs of live stock may be.
Following are latest retail prices of market
basket Filings:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin. best cuts, from Is to 1Sc;
standing rib roast, from 10 to 20c; chuck roast.
10 to l2c; best round steaks l21k to I5c; boiling
beef to SC; sweet breads 20 to Soc per pair: beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, &c pound; calf
iivers 5 to 35c apiece; corned beef from 10 l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l21 to l5c; cuslets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
quality, brings l21ac; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets. SC per pound.
Garden Stuff
Sweet potatoes 15c per quarter peck:
cabbage, 10 to l5c; potatoes. 20c per half
peck; new Bermuda potatoes, S5c a quarter
peck; Bermuda onions. S5c a quart;
bananas, 10 to 20c dozen: carrots, SC bunch;
lemons, 80 to 40c per dozen; oranges. Is to SOC;
caulllower, 10 to 4Oc head; lettuce, sc per
bunch; beets. &c per bunch, 85c per dozen;
cucumbers, % to 35c apiece: apples. Is to 2Oc
quarter peck; celery. 5to l0c bunch: pie pump
kins. 10 to &c; Malaga grapes. % to 55c pound.
Choice creamery butter Csc. Good country
butter. 20 to- 25c. Fancy pound rolls, 80 to 35c
Strictly fresh eggs. 26@Tc.
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 90
per pair: ducks. 6Oc to 81 20; turkeys, Is to l6c
per pound; geese, 10 to lie.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 15c;
California salmon. IS to 40c per pound white fish,
l211% to I5c: herring, pounds for &c; Spanish
mackerel, 40c pound; blue hsh, l5c;
halibut, 20c; rock bass, 25c; lake trout,
l211c; Holsters, 2Oc: green sea lurtle 20 to &c.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters 81 25 per gallon clans, 81 so per gallon:
smelts, Doc a pound; shad, 75c to 81 so each;
scallops, 2Oc pound.
Flowers.
La France. So 00per dozen; Mermets, 50 90 per
dozen; Brides, 81 90 per dozen; yellow and white
roses. 81 80 per dozen; Bennetts. 81 50per dozen;
Beauties, 81 00Gl %; carna.ions 75c per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, 81 90 per dozen; violets
81 SO per 100; heliotrope, 75c per dozen; lily
of valley, 81 50 per dozen; camelias, Csc each;
Harrisii. Soc each; hyacnth, 75c per dozen;
Magma Charta, 81 90 to 81 Is each; fuschia. SOC
per bunch; hostes. s. on a dozen; tulips, o. 90
a dozen; narcissus 75c to 81 90 dozen.