Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-02
THE MARKET BASKET.
Dairy Products Scarce and Firm-Homs
Vegetables Plenty.


Vegetables Plenty.
Contrary to usual custom at this time of the
year creamery butter has advanced from to
cents per pound in TIE week past. The reason
for the advance Is found in the great scarcity.
The season for dairy products IS fully three
weeks behind the average time this year. The
same is true of home-raised garden stun. There
has been very little good garden stuff coming
in from the South of late. It seems that un-
timely frosrs have been adverse to good
yield In the Florida peninsula.
Large quantities of cabbage and Strawberries
have been coming to our markets of late in
bad shape. and hence will not yield enough 20
pay freight bills
:, HOme-raissd vegetables are coming in freely
the past week and on the Diamond market
stalls are plenty Of rhubarb, asparagus, lettuce,
radishes and green onions from nearby gardens.
There has been a scarcity Of tomatoes the past
few days and prices are advanced.
Supply Of lake and ocean products is now
fully up TO demand. Lake fsh are, however,
higher at sources of supply. Florists report .
good demand for their products, but tendency
The following are retail prices of best quality
OF meats. fish. vegetables. etc.. at the Diamond
Market:
Meats-Bese cuts of tenderloin steaks. $50
per n; sirIoin, Is to Zoe; standing rib roast. Is
to Zoe; chuck roasts, I2c; corned beef. 8 to 1Oc
per b; spring lamb. 25e; leg of mutton, 123lc for
hind quarter and Sc for fore quarter; loin Of
mutton, l5c; lamb chops, 20c; stewing pieces, &c
per NJ veal roasts, l214 10 15e per D. and cutlets
zoe. Pork chops, l212c, and steaks 10c. an ad-
vance Of &c per b 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 half
peck; Bermuda potatoes, 35c a quarter
peck: Bermuda onions. Zoe a quart; bananas,
Is to zoe dozen: carrots. &c a bunch; toma-
toes, 3O040c quart: lemons, 30 to 40c per
dozen; oranges, 20 TO 40c; lettuce, to l0c per
bunch; beets, DC per bunch, 35c per dozent
new beets. l0c bunch; asparagus. l0c bunch,
3 for 25c; radishes, &c a bunch; eueumbers, Is to
Zoe apiece: apples, Csc a quarter peck; straw
berries. 40 to Soc quart
Butter and EggS-Best creamery &c per
D; fancy brands, 35c; choice country rolls. 25os
good cooking butter, l8c per D; fresh eggs Ito
per dozen.
Poultry-Dressed chickens, 81 90 to 81 Is
pair; ducks, 75c TO 81 90; turkeys 1sc to 20c per
d: geese. l2c to l4c.
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 15c;
California salmon. IS to 40c per pound; white fish,
Rx to l5c: herring, pounds for Zoe: Spanish
mackerel, 4Oc pound; blue nsh, 15c;
halbut, Zoe; rock bass, 25c; lake trout,
121fc; Holsters, 20c: green sea Iurtle 20 to 25c.
Oysters: New York counts, 81 75 per gallon,
smelts. 2lc a pound; shad. 81 90 TO 81 Is each;
scallops, Zoe pound. Macklnaw trCut. l21<o
per pound.
Flo-ars France, 81 25 per dozen;
Mernrsss, 81 90 per dozen; Brides, 81 90 per
dozen; yellow and white roses 75c per
dozen; Bennetts, 81 90 per dozen; Beauties.
35c to Soc; carnations. Soc per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, 81 90 per dozen; violets.
81 90 per 100; heIiotrope, Soc per dozen; lily
Of valley, 7oc per dozen: camelias, l5c each;
Harrisii. 2Dc each; byacnth, SOC per dozen;
hyacinth, 15c each; Jacks, g sea dozen; passies,
25c.