Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-18
THE MARKET BASKET.
Berries Now at the Best and New Potatoe.
Are Lower.

Are Lower.
Watermelons and cantaloupes from the
far South have shown up for the first time
this season in the past week, but prices are
still too steep for the average purse. Home
grown Strawberries and Southern rasp.
berries are on the stalls and the former are
now at their best. A leading dealer reports
that the middle of next week will be the
best time to lay in the winters store of
strawberries. Fruit preservers have been
gathering in large quantities the past few
days at from &c to Sc per quart. In vege-
table lines we note lower prices forAnew
potatoes which are coming in freely from
the south. A good quality of old potatoes
is scarcely to be had. Tomatoes are scarce
and higher than they have been for some
weeks.
In the lime of dairy products there has
been no essential change in prices the past
week. Choice creamery butter is a shade
higher, but country butter is still drug at
the low est prices of the sea son.
Following are latest retail prices of mar.
ket basket materials:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks, 2cc per
ID: sirloin, l5Glac: standing rib roast l5diSc
chuck roast sGlOc: corned beef, SC per ID; spring
lamb. 15Cd2Oc leg chops. 25c; leg of mutton. l2ec
for hindquarter aud SC for forequarter oin of
ton l5c; lamb chops, 2oa25c; stewng pieces &C per
pork chops, l2iec, and steaks, Ioc.
VEGETABLES AND DFRUIT-Cabbage, 5Gloc; pe-
tatocs, aOc per half peck: new potatoes l5c Der
quarter peck, 25c per half peck; green beans I5c
quarter peck: peas. CSC a half peck; bananas,
15G1l20c dozen; lemons, 15d20c per dozen:
oranges, 4GdJOc; lettuce, SC bGnch: new beets Sc
punches Tor DC; Bermuda onions. zoe a quarter
peck; cucumbers, &C apiece; caulinower 25c
25c a quart box: rhubarb, punches for IOc:
asparagus, &c bunch. for 25c. homegrown;
egg paut l5G2oc apiece; Strawberries. l6dI5c a
box: green onions, punches for l0c: gooseberries
boxes for 25c raspberries. 20c box; cherries sc
a box.
BUTTER AND EGGS-Good creamery 2o62Ic per
lb fancy brands, 23dl25c; choice country roll I60
lie; good cooking butter, l9c; fresh eggs, lS0I9c
per dozen.
PoULTEY-Live chickens, 81 OO9I Is pair: spring
chickens 750s0c pair: live turkeys, l3I5c per Ib
live ducks oUoOc pair; dressed chickens Is to I6c
per ID: ducks, IL to 1sc per lb: turkeys Is to a0c
FISH-Folowing are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 TO 5c; Call
fornia salmon, 3o TO ACC per pound; white fish l2H
10 l5c: herring, pounds for 25c: Spanish mackerp
3Tli0c per pound: bluefsh l5c; haibut 2Oc: rock
bass sc: lake trout, l2c; lobsters Nc; green sea
turtle, 70 10 25c: oysters, New York counts 81 Is
gallon; shad, 75c to 81 90 each: Mackinaw
trout I21sc per pound: frogs s. 90 dozen: CLAIMS
81 80 gallon: soft shell crabs, &c to 81 90 a DOZEN
FLowERs-La France, 81 . per dozen; Mermets
81 sc per dozen; Brides q % per dozen: white and
yellow roses 75c per dozen; hostes 81 Is per dozen.
Bennetts, 81 90 per dozen; Jack roses. 81 50 per
dozen: orchids. 75c6sl 90 each: carnations SOC Der
dozen: lilacs. l0c bunch: hyberd roses 35c each:
American beauties. 35c each; pansies, sc bunch.