Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-10
THE MARKET BASKET.
Grapes Lead in Fruit Lines-Better Demand
for Garden Stuff.

Grapes Lead in Fruit Lines-Better Demand
for Garden Stuff.
At the Diamond market fruit and vegeta-
Bile stalls better trade is reported, but there
is room for further improvement before
business in this line is satisfactory to the
producer. Tomatoes and cabbage, which
week ago were slow at 25c to Soc per basket,
are now active at 40c to SOC per basket. Gu
cumbers caulif1ower and choice potatoes
are firm at shade higher prices. In fruit
lines grapes have the call. Total receipts
for the week have been close up to 100 car
loads, and our markets. SO far seem to take
all offered though In n jobbing way prices
are a shade lower this week than last Sup
ply of peaches is on the decline and demand
Is also on the decline. Consumers laid in for
canning purposes heavily at the time of
plenty and cheapness, and while prices are
higher the movement is slow. Plums are
practically thing of the past
We note as feature of the week an up
ward movement of dairy products. Cream
cry butter in q jobbing way is 2Ic higher at
sources Of supply than it was a week ago;
Eggs, too, show an upward inclination and
are quoted higher. At the fish stall the sit
uation is as it was last Saturday.
Trade is by no means brisk. Supply of
select oysters is short OF demand, but all
other lake and ocean products go slow.
Florists report quiet week, with many of
the popular varieties of flowers things of the
past.
Following are laUeSC retail prices OIL mar
ket basket filling:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderlon steaks 25c per
10; slrloin. 1s920c; standing rib roast, la92Oc;
am spFndf and
SC for forequarter: oin of mutton, l5c; lamb chops
30c; stewing pieces &c per tb veal roasts l2x0l15c
per b, and outlets, &c. Pork chops, l21zc and
steaks 1Oc, an advance of &c per 10 on rates which
have prevailed for some months past.
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT-Cabbages, 5G1Oc: pota-
toes 15c per half peck sweet potatoes, 2O025c per
half peck: roasting ears. 156125c dozen; green
beans, CSC a half peck; wax beans, 25c half
peck; pie pumpkins, 15CG25c; onions. 25c
half peck; bananas, 10Gl5c a dozen; car
rots. SC bunch: tomatoes, IOc quarter peck
peas, 35c per half peck lemons. 259Sjc per DOZEN
oranges, 25(l40c; lettuce punches for SC; beets
punches for 1Jc: radshes. &c Il bunch; cucumbers,
for Zoe: eggplants, 5l0c celery, Sc bunch cauli-
flower, 15G35c apiece; apples, 15q20c half peck;
grapes. SG5c pound; peaches, l5g25c Il quarter
peck: plums. lN1l5c quart.
BUTTER AND EGGs-GOod creamery, 2SG30c per
10 fancy brands. 35c; choice country rolls 3Oc good
cooking butter. lie; fresh eggs, 25c per dozen.
PoULTRY-Dressed chickens, IL to 13c per fb;
ducks, 13 to 15c per b turkeys 16c-
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 TO l5c; Cal
ifornia salmon, IS to 4Oc per pound: white fish, 1919
to 15c herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackereI
20c per pound: buefish. 15c; habut 20c; rock bass
25c lake trout. 2.c Holsters, 20c; green turtle.
20 to 25c: oysters, New York counts, 81 70 per gal
scallOps, 2Oc pound; Mackinaw trout, 1219c per
pound soft shell crabs. 81 90 to 81 90 dozen; frogs
81 90 TO 3 80 a dozen; clans 81 25 gallon.
FLowERs--La France. 81 % per dozen; Mermets
81 . per dozen: Brides, 81 25 per dozen: yellow and
white roses. 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts 81 90 per
bany, 81 25 per dozen; hOstes. 81 % q dozen;
Senator Wootten roses 81 25 4 dozen.