Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-27
THE MARKET BASKET.
Watermelons and Roasting Ears to tn,
Front-Price of Staples.


The fruit and vegetable season is now at
its best, and the opportunities for good
Sunday dinner were never better than they
are to-day. Within the past week water
melons, cantaloupes, blackberries, red rasp-
berries and roasting ears have put in their
first appearance for the season. Strawber-
ries are close to their end, but there are still
q few in the stalls
Eggs that ARE sure are very scarce and
prices are a shade higher than they were a
week ago. Florists report lively trade for
the first nalf of the week, but the latter half
has been slow. The closing up of schools has
made special demands ON florists this week.
but volume of trade is hardly up to las
week, when society was getting in its best
work for the year. Lake and ocean products
are quiet, as is their custom at this season.
Ohio laws forbid the use Of nets in Lake Erie
after June Is, and the fresh lake fish for the
next month or two will hail from Huron and
Superior.
Following are latest retail quotations in
line of market basket filling:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks, 25c per
D.; sirloin, 1S620c: standing rib roast. 1aGa0c;
lamb 25c leg of mutton, 12sc for hind quarter and
SC for fore Quarter lon of mutton. 1c; lamb chops,
&c &c., seSSns S ssnS p
steaks. loc an advance Of &c per 10 on rates which
ony n the ef esh es line witch fails to
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT-Cabbage, 5110c; pota-
toes &c per half peck: Bermuda Onons 15c quart;
new peas, 25c half peck: yellow beans, 2Oc: wax
beans, 25c quarter peck; bananas. 1625c a
dozen; carrots, sc bunch; tomatoes 15c quart;
homegrown peas, Csc per half peck; lemons,
30G40c per dozen; oranges, 2[dj0c; lettuce,
SC per bunch: new beets, 16c bunch; asparagus
sc bunch, 6 for sc; radshes, &c bunch cucum-
bers, sc apiece; Strawberries, S910c quart;
rnubarb punches for 10c: cherries. S110c quart;
green gooseberries and currants. 10c a quart; egg
plants 15d3Oc; new homegrown celery, 10c a
bunch 3 for 25c; raspberries, n@12c box: water
melons, 30dJ0c apiece; homegrown caulihower,
1OdlI5c apiece: blackberries, 1a9l5c q box.
BUTTER AND EGGS-Good creamery. 20c per ID
fancy brands 23c: choice country rolls, 15c; good
cooking butter, 12c: fresh eggs, 20c per dozen.
PoULTRY-Dressed chickens, II to 13c per b;
ducks, lSc to 15c per ID: turkeys. 16c.
FISH-Following arc the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices Lake salmon, 10 to 15c CAL
iforna salmon, IS to 40c per pound; white fish, 12x
to 15c; herring pounds for sc: Spanish mackerel
40c per pound bluesh, 15c; halibut 2Oc; rock bass
25c lake trout 12c Holsters, 20c; green turtle,
20 to &C. Oysters: New York counts, 81 IS per gal
Ion; smets, 20c pound shad, 81 90 to q 25 each;
scallops, 20c pound. Mackinaw trout 1211c per
pound: soft shell crabs, 81 90 to 81 25 dozen.
FLowERs-La France, 81 25 per dozen; Mermets,
81 90 per dozen; Brides. 81 90 per dozen yellow and
dozen: carnations, 55c per dozen; Duchess of AL
bauy, 81 90 per dozen: heliotrope, soc per dozen:
Harrisii, a0c each: hostcs 81 90 dozen; Jacks,
75c to 81 90 dozen; pansies. &c; water lilies, sc
dozen; moss roses, 75c dozen.