Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-27
THE MARKET BASKET.
Game q Thing of the Past-Eggs Lower
and Poultry Firmer.

and Poultry Firmcr.
At the Diamond market stalls trade is
reported active for the week with few
changes in the price list. Game is now
practically thing of the past. Market
have been glutteu with eggs for the week
past, and jobbing prices went as low as I5c
per dozen, against 35c per dozen at tho be.
ginning OF the month. Within the past day
or two II reaction has come to the egg mar
ket. and prices are now &c per dozen above
the lowest price reached at the beginning OF
the week, and as the Lenten season is close
at hand, prospects are good for better prices
in the week to come than the week past.
Supply OF poultry has been light OF late and
markets are Tirmer than they were week
ago. Fruits and vegetables are slow at the
same old prices, Fresh shad are beginning
TO come in freely from Carolina and Florida
waters, and demand for the same is good t
81 90 to ST. so apiece. Supply of selected
oysters which has been light all the season
has now caught up to demand, but prices
remain as before.
Florists report better demand this week
than last for their products. The Grand
Army doings have made strong demands on
florists the past few days.
Following are latest retail prices OF mar
ket basket materials:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks, CSC per
n; sirloin. 1S920c: standing rib roast lsG2Oc:
lamb. i5c leg Of mutton i21sc for hindauarier and
Sc for dorequarter: lon of mutton 15c; lamb chops
per n, and outlets. ac. Pork chops, I214c, and
steaks. I0c.
VEGETABLES AND DFRUTT-Cabbages 50Icc: pota-
toes 15c per half peck: sweet potatoes a0025c per
half peck: green beans. S5c a quarter peck: wax
beans, Csc quarter peck; pie pumpkins 15@25c:
onions. Csc a half peck: bananas. 2Oc a dozen;
carrots. SC bunch: lemons. 20G25c per dozen;
oranges, 15il35c: lettuce. l0c per bunch, punches
apiece: celery Sc a bunch caulihower. l5a35c
apiece: apples, 15@20c half peck; tomatoes 35c
quart box: Spanish onions, sc apiece: Malaga
grapes, 20(l2jc a pound; beets, l0c bunch, . for
25c
BUTTER AND EGGs-Good creamery, 3a@s3c per
fb fancy brands. 35G36c; choice country rolls $50
&c; good cooking butter, lie; fresh eggs, .N92lc
per dozen.
PoULTRY-Live chickens. 75@sOc pair: live
turkeys, J9GlSc per 10: live ducks. 75@s5c pair
dressed chickens IL to 1Sc per ib ducks IL to lSc
per fb: turkeys, Is to &c.
FIsH-Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls with prices: Lake salmon. 10 TO 15c: Cai-
ifornia salmon, s. to 40c per pound white fish, 121
10 15c herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackerel
20c per pound; buefish, 15c: habut a0c: rock bass
25c lake trout, 12sc HOLSTERS. 20c: green turtle.
% 25c; oysters New York counts. 81 rs per gal
Ion: smelts zoe pound: shad. 81 90 to 81 25 each;
scallops, 2Oc pound: Mackinaw trout, 12lSc per
pound; frogs. 81 " dozen; clans, IL so
gallon.
FLowERs-La France s. so per dozen; Duchess
of Albany, 81 Oper dozen; Mernets 81 90 per dozen
Brides, 81 90 per dozen; white and yellow roses,
81 so per dozen; hostes. s. 50 per dozen: Senator
Wootten roses - 90 dozen; Bennetts, g SO por
dozen: hyacinths, .5c per dozen: lily of the val
ley. 81 90 per dozen; orchids. 75c to 81 90 each;
violets So so hundred carnations, Soc per dozen:
freeza, SOC per dozen: lilac Cox spray tulips, 75c
per dozen; narcissus, 75c per dozen.