Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-22
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Fruits and Vegetables Extremely Low
Dairy Products Higher.

Not for many years have farm and garden
products been so plentiful and cheap as they
have been the past week or two. Toma toes,
cabbage and cucumbers have not sold as low
the past decade as they were sold this week
at the Diamond Market stalls. As fine cab
bages as were ever grown have been drug
at &c to &c per head, and tomatoes have been
selling as low AS 25c per bushel basket
Potatoes of choice quality are shade firmef
In wholesale way, but retail prices remain
as they were a week ago.
Peaches are coming in freely and quality
is improving, while prices are tending lower
Domestic fruits are so plentiful that tropical
fruits are poor stock of late Bananas are
particularly dull owing to the heavy receipts
of peaches. Grapes are now coming in freely
and are selling at their lowest price for this
season. Dairy products have been steadily
moving upward the past week. Choice
creamery butter is &c per Id higher than it
was week ago in a jobbing way, and a the
advance markets are very firm. There has
been an unusual scarcity of good creamery
butter in this market for several weeks past,
and there is little doubt that the lowest
prices of the season belong TO the past.
At the fish stalls trade is reported very
quiet. Supplies are light and demand is ditto.
Florists report the quietest week of the sea-
son. Were it not for funeral demands trade
i'll this line would be nearly at IL standst1ll
Following are latest retail prices OF market
basket hIllng: .--
MEATS-Bcst cuts of tenderloin steaks 25c per
ID; sirloin, 1Sf92Oc; standing rIb roast, la92Uc;
chuck roasts I2c; corned beef Sl0c per fb; spring
lamb, &c; leg of mutton, l2lac for hindquarter and
Sc for toreQtiarter lon of mutton l5c; lamb chops
@Oc; Sewing pieces. &c per fb; veal roasts. 216G5c
per ID, ana outlets, Tc. Pork chops, I21ac, and
steaks, 1Oc, an advance of &c per ID on rates which
have prevailed for some months past.
VEGETABLES AND FRU1r-Cabbages, 3d5c; pota-
toes. 1Oc per half peck: sweet potatoes, 273Oc per
half peck; roasting ears. 2UGg-5c dozen; green
beans, 1Gc n half peck; wax beans, 10c a quarter
peek squash. &c apiece; bananas, l0D15c 4 dozen
peas, 25c per half peck: lemons, 25@31c per dozen
oranges, 256I4Oc; lettuce, &c per bunch; heets 3
punches for lUc; radishes, &c punch; cucumbers 3
for lSc; cggplants, 10@l5c new homegrown celery,
sc bunch: watcrmelons, 15d25c Apiece canta-
loupes, lGg20c apiece; homegrown caulihower, 10
@s2oc apiece; blackberries, 129l5c box; hucke-
berries, 10c quart; apples, l09l2c half peck;
grapes, lbs for 2,c; peaches, 15@s2Oc half peck;
plums, quarts for 25c.
BUTTER AND EGGs-Good creamery, 25@36c per
ID; fancy brands. Ac choice country rolls sc; good
cooking butter, Ice; fresh eggs, lSc per dozen
P0ULTRY-Dresscd chickens, IL to l3c per fb:
ducks, ID to l5c per ID; turkeys, Ice.
FISH-FollOwlng are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon 10 to 15c; CAL
1forniasalmOn, 3) to i0c per pound; white fish, I2
TO l5c; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackerel
2Gc per pound bnefish 1jc; halibut 2Dc: rock bass
~ to sc; oysters New York counts 81 10 per gal
Ion: sme!ts 20c pound; shad, 81 % to 81 . each;
scallops, 20c pound; Macknaw trout 12bc per
pound soft shell crabs 81 20 to 81 so dozen: frogs
S2 10 to s. 50 a dozen; clans, 81 3 a gallon e''
FLowERs-La France. 81 % per dozen; Mermets
81 25 per dozen: Brides 81 25 per dozen; yellow and
dozen; carnations, 35c per dozen; Duchess of Al
bany, 81 25 per dozen; heliUtrope, soc per dozen:
Harrisi &c each; hostes. 81 25 Il dozen; pansies,
25c; water lilies, 25c dozen; sweet peas, l0c d
dozen; Senator Woottcn roses 81 . a dozen: Lii
ium Alba, 75c a dozen; gladi0lus, 75o to 81 70 q
dozen; Ll1um Roseun, 15c dozen.