Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-21
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Eggs Higher and Butter Lower-Price Of
Easter Dinners.

Easter Dinners.
In the line OF market basket materials the
feature of the week past has been the advance
in eggs and drop in butter. The one offsets the
other as to cost of Sunday dinners. Ten days
ago eggs were selling at 17c per dozen in a job
bing way, and now they are firm at 24G25c,
with very few in the market. The untimely
cold weather of late has caused hens to lose
their grip. One thing is certain. namely. that
the supply of hen fruit is of late far below de-
mand. The boom in creamery butter noted a
week ago became top-heavy. and prices have
dropped 5G6c per pound since last Saturday.
The top of the market at Elgin on Monday was
30c per pound. Quality of strawberries COM
ing in from Florida the past week has improved,
and as result markets are strong at higher
prices.
Retail dealers in garden stuff report an i'm
proved trade this week over last. Florists also
report good week. Our quotations are ad-
vanced in floral lines in view of the Easter
festival. The week ahead is ever the best Of
the year in demand for flowers. II is rare thas
supply is up TO demand during Easter week.
Following are latest retail prices Of market
basket filling:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sIrloin. best cuts, from l5 to lsc;
standing rib roast. from l5 to 2Oc; chuck roast,
10 to 12c; best rouEd steaks I21S to I5c; boiling
beef to Sc sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair; beef
kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, &c a pound; calf
Iivers % to 35c apiece; corned beef from Toto l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands 10c:
roast, l214 to 15c; cusets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs. fore quarter 10 to I2c; hind quarters,
15c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of primo
quality, brings l235c; fore quarter, SC; loin Of
mutton, l5c; giblets, DC per pound.
Garden stuff.
Sweet potatoes, 15c per quarter peck:
cabbage, 10 to 15c; potatoes. &c per half
peck; Bermuda potatoes, SOc a quarter
peck; Bermuda onions. 25c a quart;
bananas, Is to zoe a dozen: carrots. sc 4
bunch; tomatoes, 40c quart; lemons, 30
to 40c per dozen; oranges, % to 4Oc;
caul1fower, 10 to 4Oc head; lettuce. to 10c per
bunch; beets. &c per bunch, 30c per dozen:
new beets, 10c bunch; asparagus, 20c
bunch: radishes. &C bunch; cucumbers, 10 to
Zoe apiece: apples, 10 to 2Oe quarter peck;
celery. 5 to 10c a bunch; Malaga grapes. 25tO sc
pound; strawberries, 30 to SOC quart
Choice creamery butter, 35c. Good country
butter. 25 to Soc. Fancy pound rolls, 30 TO 35c.
Strictly fresh eggs. 25c.
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 60
per pair: ducks, 60c to 81 90; turkeys, Is to zoo
per pound; geese, 10 to lie.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 15c;
121S to I5c: herring, 4 pounds for &c; Spanish
mackerel, 4Oc pound; blue tish, 15c;
halibut. 20c; rock bass, 25c; lake trout,
l23c; Holsters, 20c: green sea turtle, 20 to &c.
Oysters: N. Y counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters. 81 % per gallon; clans, 81 so per gallon;
sInelts, 2Oc pound; shad, 75c to 81 50 each;
scallops, 2Oc pound
Flowers.
La France. 81 so per dozen; Merm cts, 81 0oper
dozen; Brides, 81 90 per dozen; yellow and white
roses 81 so per dozen; Bennetts. 81 90 per dozen;
Beauties Soc ST. carnations 75c tn 81 per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, 81 50 per dozen; Yiolets.
81 % per 100; heliotrope. SOC per dozen; lilly
of valley, 75c per dozen: camelias, 25c each;
Harrisi. 25c each; hyaeinth, Soc per dozen;
Magma Charta, 75c each: hostes, s. 90 dozen:
tulips 75c dozen; narcissus. 75c dozen;
freesas, 25c bunch: liac. 81 50 4 bunch;
Dutch hyacinth, 15c each; Jacks. So dozen.