Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
THE MARKET BASKET.
Information for Housekeepers Who Pat
ronize the Stands and Stalls.

hOuSekeeDerS
ronize the Stands and Stalls.
The cost of the Sunday dinner will not
vary much this week from last. Staple meats
rarely change to the consumer, whatever the
ups and downs of live stock. Butter should
be from to 10c per h lower than a week ago.
Good country rolls are a drug on the market
at 15c per h, and good creamery is slow at IS
to 2Sc in a jobbing way. Eggs and poultry
are firm at last weeks prices. The markets
are well supplied with strawberries, but
choice stock holds up well to prices of last
Saturday. Home raised strawberries will
not be due for q week or two, and prospects
are not brilliant for n good crop, as late
frosts nipped large quantities in this section
when in flower.
Florists report a fair weeks trade, with
much better prospects for the week to come,
as society will be getting in some good work
next week. In the line of outdoor flowers
lilacs and lilies of the valley have the call.
The May Music Festival has made special
demands for loose flowers.
Atthe fish stalls the only new feature re-
ported is the fresh arrival of soft shell crabs,
the first of the season being reported this
week. Lake fish appear to be leaving the
shore earlier than usual this season, and, as
O result, the catch has been light for few
days past.
The following are retail prices of best
quality Of meats, fish, vegetables, ETC., at the
Diamond Market:
MEATs-Best cuts Of tenderloin steaks, &c per
Chuck roasts iSc; corned beef saiOc per is Spring
lamb, sc; leg of mutton, 12zc for hind quarter and
Sc for fore quarter; oin ofmuttOn 15c; lamb chops
20c; stewing pieces, &c per ~; veal roasts 12t0
15c per b., and outlets, 20c Pork chops, 12&c and
steaks. 10c. advance of &c per ID. rates which
have prevailed for some months past. Veal is the
only article in the flesh line which fails to respond
to the upward movement of prices.
VEGETABLEs-Cabbage, 10c; potatoes. sc per half
peck .Bermuda potatoes &c quarter peck bermuda
onions, &c quart; bananas, 1fd25e dozen: car
rots, sc bunch, tomatoes, 30d40c quart; lemons,
3Od40c per dozen; oranges, 2G80c; lettuce, SC per
bunch; beets, SC per bunch, S5c per dozen; new
radishes, SC a bunch; cucumbers, 1Oc apiece; ap-
Piles, &c a quarter peck; strawberries, 15920c a
quart: rhubarb. punches for 10c.
BUTTER AND EGGS-Good creamery, &c per b:
fancy brands SOC: choice country rolls, 2Dc; good
cooking butter, 12c; fresh eggs, 17c per dozen.
PoULTRY-Dressed chickens, 13 to 15c per 10;
ducks. l3c to l5c per 10; turkeys 1sc per ID; geese
12c to lac per 10.
FIsH-Following are the articles in this lineon
the stalls with prfces Lake salmon, 10 to 15e; CAL
iforna salmon, IS to 40c per pound; white fish, 125<
to 15c: herring pounds for sc; Spanish mackerel,
40c per pound bluesh, 15c halibut, 20c; rock bass
25c lake trout 12zc lobsters oOc; green TURTLE
lon: shielts, 20c pound; shad, q 90 to 81 25 each
scallops 20c pound. Mackinaw trout. 1215c per
pound; soft shell crabs, 81 O0to q . a dozen.
FLOwERS-La France, 81 25 per dozen; Mermets,
81 90 per dozen; Brides, 81 90 per dozen; yellow and
white roses, 75c per dozen; Benefits, 81 90 per
dozen: Duchess of Albany, 81 90 per dozen: vio-
let's 81 90 per 10O heliotrope SOC per dozen: lily OF
valley, Soc per dozen; cameias 15c EACH Harrfsii,
20c each: hyacinth, soc per dozen; hostes, 81 90
dozen; lilac, 25c bunch; Dutch hyacinth, 15c
each; Jacks, 81 so dozen; pansies, 25c.