Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-18
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Eggs and Butter Lower-Ouality Of vegeS
tables Improving

Eggs and Butter Lower-Quality Of vegeS
tables Improving.
The features of the past week in the line Of
market-basket filling have been the declining
prices of eggs and country butter and the i'm.
proved quality of garden stuff. The retail price
of eggs is down TO l5c per dozen. and country
butter Is down to 20c per pound. The first
fruits of the nearby gardens have been coming
m the past week, and are almost a month be-
hind their average time Home-raised onions,
rhubarb, lettuce, and radishes are now in the
Diamond market stalls. The Improvement Of
the weather the past week has had the effect Of
stim ulatlng trade
Dealers in fruits and vegetables report q
much better trade this week than last. In the
line of ocean products supply has at last caught
up to demand. Florists report good demand
for their products, with prices the same as last
week.
Live stock is steadily moving upward, and 10
is only a question of time when the consumer
must pay higher prices for tenderloins and
roasts.
The following are retail prices of best quality
Of meats. fish. vegetables. ETC.. at the Diamond
Market:
Meats-Besr cuts OF tenderIoin steaks, 25c
per d.; sirloin, Is TO Zoe: standing rib roast Is
TO 2Dc: chuck roasts. l2c; corned peet. to LOG
per b; spring lamb. 25c: leg of mutton. l213c for
hind quarter and Sc for fore quarter; loln OF
mutton, l5c; lamb chops, Zoe; stewing pieces, 30
per NJ veal roasts, l211 to l5c per h. and outlets,
vance of &c per on rates which have pre-
vailed for some months past. Veal is the only
article in the flesh line which fails to respond
to the upward movement of prices.
Vegetables-Sweet potatoes l5c per quarter
peck: cabbage, 10 to l5c; potatoes. 25c per halt
peck; Bermuda potatoes, 35c quarter
peck; bermuda onions. 2oc quart; bananas.
10 to 2Oc dozen; carrots, &c bunch; toma-
toes, 35c a quayt; lemons, 30 to 4Oc per
dozen; oranges, Is to 4Oc; lettuce, to 10c per
bunch; beets. &c per bunch, 35c per dozent
new beets, 10c bunch; asparagus. l5c
bunch: radishes, sc bunch; cucumbers, Ii to
Zoe apiece; apples l5 to 2Oc quarter peck;
celery. to l0c bunch; strawberries, 40 TO 800
Butter and Eggs-Best creamery sOc per
n; fancy brands, &c; choice country rolls, 25e,
good cooking butter, lSc per b; fresh eggs loo
per dozen.
paIr; ducks. 75c to 81 co. turkeys, lSc to 2Oc per
b; geese l2c to l4c.
Fish-Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to l5c;
California salmon 30 to 40c per pound: white fish,
l2X to I5c: herring pounds for Zc; Spanish
mackerel, 4Oc pound; blue fish, l5c;
halbut, 2Oci rock bass, 2oc; lake trout,
l2%c; Holsters, 20c: green sea turtle, 70 to 25c.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters 81 % per gallon; clans, 81 80 per gallon;
smeltS 20c a pound; shad. 81 90 to 81 % each;
scaliops, Zoe pound. Maekinaw trout. l21lo
Flowers La France. 81 so per dozens
Mermets, 81 25 per dozen; Brides, 81 25 per
dozen; yellow and white roses. 81 90 per
dozen; Bennetts. 81 % per dozen; Beauties,
Soc to 81 90; carnations, Soc to 81 90 per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, 81 so per dozen; violets.
81 Is per 100; heliotrope. soc per dozen; MY
of valley, 75c per dozen; cameias, 25c each;
Harrisii, 25c each; hyacinth, SOC per dozen;
Magma Charta 75c each; hostes, 81 so dozen;
tulips, SOC . dozen; narcrsus. JOc dozenS
iiiac, 81 50 a bunch; Dutch hyacinth l5c eachi
Jacks, So dozen.