Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-04
THE MARKET BASKET.
Butter and Eggs Tend Lower-Quality of
Vegetables Gaining.

Vegetables Gaining.
Prices of market basket filling vary very lit
tie this week from last. Creamery butter and
eggs are shade lower but not enough to make
any marked impression on household expenses.
At the Diamond market fruit and vegetable
stalls fair weeks trade was reported Quail
ity of offerings in the line of new vegetables
shows some improvement over last week. Our
supplies in this line are coming mainly from
the Gulf of Mexico. The time draws near
when new vegetables will displace the old. The
same is true of dairy products. The old stock
of creamery butter and cheese is very light, and
drift of markets is upward. There has been no
marked decline in demand for lake and ocean
products since the close of the Lenten season.
Small salmon are in light supply, as are also Cod
ana haddock. The season for frozen fish is
practically over, and the catch of fresh stock
SO tar is hardly up to demand Shad are so
high in price that the ordinary consumer Is not
disposed 10 buy Prices of flowers are off
since Easter week, as our quotations will dis
ally well, owing to the unusual demand for
funeral offerings.
Following are latest retail prices for 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 Is to lSc;
10 to l2c; best round steaks l25$ to I5c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair: beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, sc a pound calf
iiVers 25 to 35c apiece: corned beef from 10 12c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands loc;
roast, l2I1 to l5c; cuEets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c. leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l279c; fore quarter, &c; loin of
mutton, l5c; gib1ets, SC per pound.
Garden Stuff
cabbage, 10 to l5c; potatoes. 25c per half
peck; Bermuda potatoes, S5c quarter
peck; Bermuda onions. 25c a quart;
bananas, Is to 2Oc dozen; carrots. &c
bunch; tomatoes. 40c a quart; lemons 30
TO 4Oc per dozen; oranges, 25 TO Acc;
caullfower, 10 to 4Oc head: lettuce, to l0c per
bunch: beets. DC per bunch, Sc per dozen:
new beets. 10c bunch; asparagus, 2Oc
bunch; radishes, &c a bunch; eucumbers, Is to
20c apiece: apples, Is to 20c a quarter peck;
celery. to l0c a bunch; Malaga grapes 25 to Sc
a pound; strawberries, 80 to Soc quart
Choice creamery butter, Soc. Good country
butter. % to 30c. Fancy pound rolls, so to 35c.
Strictly fresh eggs. 2Sc dozen: goose eggs,
6Oc dozen; duck eggs, 35c 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 lSc
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon 10 to l5c;
California salmon 35 10 4Oc per pound; white fish,
l251 to I5c: herring, pounds for 25c: Spanish
mackerel, 4Oc a pound; blue fish, l5c;
halibut. 20c: rock bass, 25c; lake trout
l2&c; Holsters, 20c: green sea Iurtle 20 to &c
Oysters: \: Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters. 81 % per gallon; CLANS 81 30 per gallon
smelts, 20c a pound; shad, 75c to 81 so each;
scallops, Zoe pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 Gper dozen; Mermets 81 25per
dozen; Brides 81 25 per dozen; yellow and white
roses 81 90 per dozen: Bennetts 81 % per dozen;
Beauties soc to 81; carnations Soc 81 per dozeu
Duchess of Albany 81 50 per dozen; violets.
81 25 per 100; heliotrope. SOC per dozen; llIy
of valley, 75c per dozen; camelias Csc each;
Harrisii. 25c each; hyacinth, Soc per dozen
Magma Charta, 75c each; hostes, 81 so dozen;
tulips 50c dozen: narcissus Soc dozen;
lilac, 81 50 4 bunch; Dutch hyacinth, l5c each;
Jacks IS Cozen.