Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-03
THE MARKET BASKET.
New Years Turkey Expensive, but Prices
Drifting Back.

New Years Turkey Expensive, but Prices
Drifting Back.
At tho Diamond market stalls prices are
practically the same as they were a week ago.
For day or two before New Years trade was
very brisk, but taking the week through, there
has been no improvement over last week.
There was sharp advance in poultry in
the early part of the week, for the reason
that shipments were showed in, but prices are
now back TO the old level. Vegetables are un-
changed. In a jobbing way tropical fruits show
an upward tendency the past week, but retail
prices are the same. In the line of lake and
ocean products, trade is quiet but prices are
firm. Demand for selected oysters exceeds
supply. White fish, cod and haddocK are very
high in Eastern markets. Here prices are un-
changed, but margins of profit are well nigh
oblIterated. Florists report an extraordinary
demand for their goods the past week The
holiday trade was never better in floral lines
than this season.
Now that Christmas and New Year belong to
the past st,prices of flowers have dropped back to
the old level.
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to &c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin. best cuts, from Is to lSc;
standing rib roast, from 10 to Zoe: chuck roast.
10 to l2c best round steaks. l21f to I5c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair; beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver. &c pound; calf
iivers 5 to 35c apiece corned beef from 10 to l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l2n to l5c; outlets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l24c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets. SC per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Sweet potatoes, 15c per quarter peck:
cabbage, 10 to 15c; potatoes. eOc per half peck;
bananas 10 to 20c dozen; carrots. SC bunch;
lemons, 30 to 40c per dozen; oranges, 25 to Soc;
caulflower, Is to 40c head; lettuce, sc per
bunch; beets. SC per bunch, S5c per dozen:
cucumbers. Is to 25c apiece: apples. Is to 2Oc q
quarter peck; celery. &c a bunch; pie pumpkins
~ to 25c; Malaga grapes. 2Oc pound
Choice creamery butter, S5c. Good country
butter. 20 to Csc. Fancy pound rolls, 80 to s5c.
Fresh country eggs. 35c.
per pair: ducks, 60c to 81 90; turkeys, lS020c
per pound; geese, l2@lSc.
Game. @@-
Venison. Is to 35e pound; squirrels, 40c pair;
rabbits. SOC; quails, 81 dozen; pheasants. 81 so
a pair; woodcock, So dozen: snipe, 50 so q
dozen; prairie chickens. 81 Is pair; Mallard
ducks. 81 pair; butter ducks. Soc pair; jack
rabbits, 81 apiece.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 15c;
California salmon. 30 to 4Oc per pound; white fish,
l2H to I5c: herring, pounds for 25c: Spanish
mackerel, 40c a pound; blue fish, 15c;
halibut, 20c; rock bass, Csc; lake trout,
l215c; Holsters, 20c: green sea turtle 20 to &c.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; stewing
oysters 81 Is per gallon clans, 81 so per gallon:
smelts, 20c pound.
Flowers.
La France. IS 0oper dozen; Mermets, So 90 per
dozen; Brides. IS NO per dozen; yellow and white
roses. 81 rs per dozen; Bennetts. So 0Oper dozen;
Beauties, 81 00Gl so; carnations. 75c per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, s1 10 per dozen; violets,
of valley, 81 50 per dozen: camelias, 25c each;
Harrisii. Soc each; hyacinth, 75c per dozen.