Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-07
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Poultry Scarce and Up-Butter and Eggs
Lower-Price of Staples.

Poultry Scarce and Up-Butter and Eggs
Lower-Price of Staples.
At the Diamond market stalls the uniform
report was that trade is very slow. Poultry is
scarce and higher than it was a week ago.
Creamery buttor and eggs have declined, but
not enough to make a marked difference In re-
tail prices. Elgin creamery is off lc r b. in a
jobbing way, and eggs have declined from to
&c % dozen. Of the new things which are to
the front for the first time this season are
radishes, asparagus and beets. New Bermuda
potatoes and onions showed up for
the first time last week, but were
from the second crop of last fall.
Supply of lake and ocean products has been
light but demand corresponds. The near aD-
proach of Lent is felt in the fish market, and,
according to precedents. there will be greater
activity a week hence. Florists report an ac-
tive weeks trade. For the same reason that
fish are quiet flowers are active, as society is
getting IN Its last work preparatory TO the ar
rival of the great Christian fast With the in
creased activity in floral lines comes a drop in
prices. and our quotations are reduced all
along the line. Staple meats move more freely
of late. but their time of quietness draws near.
Following are latest retail prices OF market
basket filling:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
standing rib roast from 10 to 2Oc: chuck roast
10 to l2c; best rouEd steaks, l212 to l5c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, &c pound; calf
ivers, ,5 to 35c apiece; corned beef from lOto l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast, l215 to 15c; cuslets 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs fore quarter, IL to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c A leg of mutton hind quarter, of prime
quality brings l21ac; fore quarter, SC; loin OF
mutton, 15c; giblets, sc per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Sweet potatoes, l5c per quarter peck:
cabbage, 10 to l5c; potatoes. 25c per half
peck; new Bermuda potatoes, S5c a quarter
peck; Bermuda onions. 35c a quart;
bananas, 10 to 20c dozen: carrots &c bunch;
lemons, 80 to 40c per dozen; oranges 25 to 40c;
caulIlower, 10 to 4uc head; lettuce, to 10c per
bunch; beets. &C per bunch, 35c per dozen:
new beets. l5c bunch; new asparagus, Zoe q
bunch: new radishes, &c bunch; cucumbers,
25 to 35c apiece: apples. Is to 2Oc quarter peck;
celery. to l0c a bunch; pie pumpkins. 10 to Csc;
Malaga grapes. 25 to S5c pound.
Ch9lce creamery butter, &c. Good country
butter. 20 to 25c. Fancy pound rolls, 80 to a5c.
Strictly fresh eggs. 25c.
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 90
per pair: ducks. 6Oc to 81 0Oi turkeys, Is to Zoe
per pound; geese, 10 to lie.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 15c;
Call1ornla salmon Do 10 4Oc per pound; Wnlte llsn,
l21< to I5c: herring pounds for sc; Spanish
mackerel, 40c a pound; blue fish, l5c;
halibut 20c: rock bass Csc; lake trout
l216c; HOLSTERS, 2Oc: green turtle, 20 to &c.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 80 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters. 81 25 per gallon; clans. 81 80 per gallon;
smelts, 20c a pound; shad, 75c to 81 SO each;
scallops, 20c pound.
Flowers.
La France. So 90 per dozen; Mermets, 81 50per
dozen; Brides, 81 so per dozen; yellow and white
roses. 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts.Sl 5Oper dozen;
Beauties Soc to 81 90; carnations. Soc per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, 81 so per dozen; violets
81 to 81 25 per 100; heliotrope SOC per dozen lily
of valley, 81 0O per dozen; camelias, 25c each;
Harrisii. S5c each; hyacinth, Soc per dozen;
Magma Charta, 75c each; hostes, 81 81 dozen;
tulips, 81 90 a dozen; narcissus, 75c dozen;
fressias, 25c bunch.