Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
THE KITCHEN MARKET.
Fruits and Vegetables Low for the Season
Poultry Quiet.

Poultry Quiet.
The cost of market basket supplies varies
very little from last weeks prices. At the
Diamond Market stalls dealers report a
quiet weeks trade Tie weather has proved
an unfavorable factor and has seemed to re-
duce the volume of trade below expecta-
tions and below late average. A week ago
poultry was scarce and markets were very
firm. Now markets are amply supplied and
prices are a shade lower in n jobbin- way
Eggs are &c per dozen lower than at this
time last week, and slow at the DROP Our
markets have been overstocked with conn
try butter Tor weeks past and only fancy
stock is wanted.
Not for many years have prices of fruits
and vegetables been so low in midwinter as
they are at present. The cost of filing the
market basket is fully p per cent lower than
it WAS u year ago. Fruits, vegetables and
eggs are lower in price than they have been
at this time for years. Staple meats seldom
downs Of live stock. Florists report busy
week, thn demand for funeral decorations
being particularly active.
Following are latest retail prices OF mar
ket basket materials:
MEATS-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks &c ner
ID; sirloin, 1SG20c: standing rib roast Iae90c:
csurl roasts l.c; corned beef SI0c per 10 spring
lamb. l5c: leg OF mutton l2c for hindouarter and
Sc for iOrequarter: on of mutton, I5c: lamb chops
Gc: stewing pieces. &c per 10: veal roasts I2I6I5c
per ID, and outlets. 2Gc. Pork chops l21c, and
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT-Cabbages, 56I0c: pota-
toes l5c per half peck sweet potatoes, 29G25c per
hah peck: green beans 25c a quarter peck: wax
means, SIC a quarter peck: Die pumpkins I5G25c:
onions. &c half peck: bananas, cGc dozen:
carrots. }" 4 ba2ch. lemons, 2G125c per dozen:
oranges, S.S'r: i"ticre. ioc per bunch. punches
for Sc; he"!-, huncilcs TOR Ice: cucumbers 25c
apiece: celery, Jc bunch: caulilower, Iy635c
apiece: apples, l56a0c half peck: toma toes a5r a
quart b"N; spanish onions sc lpiace. Malaga
grapes, 2'c a pound; new beets, I0c i bunch . for
BUTTER AND EGGs-Good creamery. s9assc per
10; fancy brands. G3Gc; choice country rolls 3Ic:
good cooking butter. lie; fresh eggs, s5d26c per
dozen. 0' -
PoCLTRY-Live chickens 67a75c a pair; live
turkeys. l9d.!3c per III; live ducks. coarse pair:
dressed chickens Il to lSc per b; ducks IL to lsc
per fb: turkeys is TO 2lc.
GAME-SquirrelS &c pair: rabbits. Soc a pair:
qnall' . % a dozen: snipes. 81 co dozen: wood
Geek. q 90 pair: pheasantS 81 25 a pair: prairie
chlchens 81 . pair: alalllTd ducks 81 10 pair:
venison. :s5c per lh jack rabbits. 50G75c apiece
FISH, ollowiHg are the articles in this line on
the stalls. with prices: Lake salmon 10 10 l5r: Cal
fornla salmon. 3 to i0r per pound; white fish, I25S
to l5c; herring, pounds for 95c: Spanish mackerel
&c per pound: bluehsh, l5c: habut Zoe: rock bass
20 10 &c: oysters New York counts 81 rs rer gall
lon sineits. Dc pound: sEad. 81 90 to 81 q each:
sc3llops, eOc pound Mackinaw trout ln!sc ner
pound; frogs. s. % dozen; clans, 81 so a
gallon.
FLowERs-La France. - 90 per dozen: Duchess
OF Albany 81 90 per dozen; Nernets so ner dozen.
Brides, 81 50 per dozen: white and yellow ros,s
81 90 per dozen: hostes s. 50 nar dozen. sensto,
WoOtten roses. g 50 dozen: Bennctts 81 on rs-
dozen; hyactnths, 75c per dozen: lily of the val
ley. 81 . per dozen: orchids, 75c to 81 90 each.
ylolets. 70 OO 4 hundred; carnations soc per Dozen