New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-20
PRICES IN THE MiRKETS.
STRAWBERRIES AND SPRING LAMB-FIsH. FLESH
AND FOWL.


AND FOWL.
Southern strawberries selling for II so and -
quart. Berries from New England lighthouses cost 80
a box After the first Of next month the Florida
variety will be making quite show in the windows Of
the fancy fruit stores IN Broadway
Spring lamb is a novelty in the market BY some
butchers they spoken Of as dollhouse lambs, ard
they we'll deserve the title, they are raised Ike many
fruits and vegetables under glass. forequsrtr
weighing four or five pounds costs 20 30 and hind
quarter fetches Is.
There Is plenty Of good fruit In market yet though
this part Of the year is generally regarded the scsnt
for fruits The best Indian River oranges cost
81 a box; California navel oranges bring the same.
Lemons from Meeeina aud Palermo sell for 81 and -
box, or - 10 30 cents dozen. Pineapples from
Havana worth IS to 80 cents each; Anera grapes,
40 a pound; grape fruit, % cents TO IL dozen;
prunes II 10 10 cents a pound cocoanuts, and ~
cents each; papershell almonds, 80 cents pound
italian chestnus 10 cents pound; dates stuffed with
wsnuts. - pound tangerine oranges, 30 cents
"A dozen; mandarins 40 cents; Turkish FIGS, cents
pound and Catawba grapes 30 cents for a five pound
box The steamers from Liverpool this week brought
in fine specimens of Gros COlmass grapes, which
retail here at % 80 a pound
Philadelphia capons ara worth 25 cents pound
Philadelphia spring roasting chickens, - cents; Wild
turkeys, 20 cents fowls ID cents, and large
sized breakfast broiers 20 pair.
Green ginger IS worth 10 cents pound citron. 2o
cents pound preserved orange peel, 20 cents a
pound.
Fresh string beans from Florida sell for 25 cents a
quart New orleans caulihower costs 30 head
green peppers from Florida bring 30 cents dozen;
Long Island Brussels sprouts worth 90 cents
quart, but imported French sprouts cost IS cents;
green okra four soups from Cuba and sell for rs
cents a hundred Bermuda and Cuba crop onions
10 cents quart spinach is 80 cents peck; kae,
81 cents a peck; new top beets from hothouse~. 10
cents bunch; new carrots, cents bunch:
new potatoes from Florida, Bermuda and Cuba
II cents quart; New-Orleans celery, 10
cents dozen. and Rochester celery, 80 cents southern
lettuce be- had for 10 cents head, and Boston
dollhouse lettuce for II IL cents dollhouse caullhOwer
costs GO cents each. dollhouse mushrooms worth
rs cents ~ a u pound
Fresh eggs from Long Island sell for 35 cents
dozen Western eggs for rs cents. Ducks eggs cost
~ cents dozen. As Faster approaches dealers
inclined 10 b. little stif in their prices for this
essential OF the fasting period Of Lent Egin creamery
butter costs 30 and 81 CENTS pound. Good country
roll butter may be had for = and 30 cents pound
Some people prefer this roll butter 10 the factory
article but it Is yearly becoming Of scarcity.
The butter consumed In great cities nearly all
from factories. There is little flavor Of the
farm about IL. There is factory at 50 Albans VI,
which alone turns out 1000 pounds Of butter day.
The economy OF the machine method is fast knocking
out the farmers homemade article
Bloater herring sell for 40 cents dozen: smoked
haddock, 10 cents pound smoked mackerel. rs
Il pound smoked salt salmon - cents pound
smoked fresh salmon, 80 cents pound blolter
salt mackerel, b. a kit No. , salt maekerc ~ 50
KIT. salt cod costs 10 cents pound; the best bone
less dry cod, in two-pound tablets. l. IL cents
pound.
Large clans worth IS cents hundred, opened;
medium sized. % cents and Little Nechs. 30 10 10
cents hundred. soft clans bring 10 10 30 cents .
hundred opened and 81 in the shell. This may puzzle
some readers The explanation is this: The clans
which small and poor aud will not keep In their
shells opened by the 4shcrmen's wives tho
seashOre strung strings and thus sent % market,
while the clans that VIII bear shipment in the she'll
fine enough IN quality TO bring lhe larger price
quoted.
Blue Point oysters may be had for 90 cents .
hundred Rockaway half shells, 80 cents box oysters,
~ % II hundred. and cuttings, 10 cents.
swapping turtle sells for Il IL cents a pound.
Mutton 10 expensive eating now adays headquarters
sell for Is cents pound, English cut Lex OF mutton.
% cents pound saddle Of mutton, IS cents English
mutton chops, 20 cents and French chops - cents.
Antelope be had for 20 cents a pound. PhLi-
delpha white SQUAD are - dozen, and dark squad,
~ wild pigeons - a dozen, English sipe s3 81
dozen. doe birds. 90 cents each, and English
pheaSants III IS each. Canvashack ducks are worth
and blue winged teal, al pair.