Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-07
THE MARKET BASKET.
HOMEGROWN Vegetables Lower, and Staple
Meats Change Not

| At the Diamond market fruit and vege-
| table stalls trade is reported better this
| week than last. Homegrown garden stuff
| is in better supply and quality than it was a
| week ago, and prices are steadily gravitat-
| ing toward lower level Southern garden
stuff is being displaced by that which is
produced nearer home. Strawberries from
| the Carolinas and Tennessee are beginning
to come in freely, but quality of offerings so
far has been poor. Choice strawberries thus
far are hardly to be had.
Butter has for the week past been in lib
eral supply, and prices are lower. Poultry
and eggs are in short supply and a shade
higher than they were week ago. In floral
lines prices show a downward tendency.
The season for flowers is nearly ut it's best,
and those who are privileged to have q gar
den plot are no longer compelled to GO to
florists for flowers. Staple meats and ocean
products are quiet and unchanged. The re-.
cent warm weather has had q depressing in
f1uence on the butchers trade. Prices, how
ever, are practically unchanged. The ma
tive cost OF veal Is little moro than One-half
what it was month ago. but the consumer
must pay about the same old prices.
Following are latest retail prices of mar
ket basket materials:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks &c per
ID; srloin. 1Sl120c; standing rib roast. 1S0 DC;
chuck roast I3c: corned beef. s@lGc per ID; spring
lamb. 15c; leg of mutton 12l5c for hindquarter and
per per fD, aud Outlets, 15c; pork chops. ls5sc and
steaks. 10c.
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT-Cabbage, 1G@15c; po-
tatoes, 15c per half peck: sweet potatoes, 20
quarter peck; onions sc a half peck; bananas.
2Oc dozen; carrots. sc Il bunch: lemons, 20@25c
per doZen oranges, 25@40c; lettuce, 5Dl0c bGnch,
3 punches for 25c: new beets. 10c. punches for
25c; Bermuda onions. 25c quart; cucumbers,
for 25c; cauihower. 25d0c apiece; apples. 15G20c
half peck; tomatoes, Ng25c a quart box: rhubarb,
punches for lOc: asparagus. &c bunch, home
grown; egg plant, 2GG35c apiece: Strawberries 3o
GI4Oc box: onions, 3 punches for 10c
BUTTER AND EGGS-GoOd creamery. 2aG)23c per
III: fancy brands. 26S27c; choice country roll 2N9
&c: good cooking butter lie; fresh eggs, l5t9l6c
per dozen.
PoULTRY-Live chickens, s5c0sI 90 pair; live
turkeys, 13l615c per 10: live ducks S009Oc pair;
dressed chickens Is to 16c per ID; ducks, II to lSc
per b; turkeys, IS to 20c.
FISH-Folowing are the articles in this line on
the stalls. with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to l5c Cali
forna salmon, 35 TO 4Oc per pound; white fish, 121
to l5c; herring pounds for 25c: spanish mackerel
20c per pound: bluefsh, 15c; halibut, 2Oc; rock
bass, 25c lake trout. 124c: HOLSTERS. DE: green
turtle. 20 to 25c: oysters, New York counts, 81 70
per gallon; smeits 2Oc pound: shad. 81 o. TO 81 .
each; scallcps. .0c a pound; Mackinaw trout. l2}9c
per pound frogs, s. 20 u dozen; CLAIMS, 81 80 a
gallon.
FLowERs-Ia France, 81 90 per dozen: Mermets.
81 % per dozen: Brides, 81 . per dozen: white and
yellow roses 81 90 per dOzen hostes 81 % per dozen;
Senator Wooton roses. 81 so per dozen: Bennetts,
81 % per dozen; Jack roses y so per dOzen lily of
the valley 75c per dozen: orchids S75cGGs 90 each:
carnations, Soc per dozen: lilacs. 10c spray;
Gala lilies So 60 per dozen daodils. 75c per dozen:
Hariss lilies. 81 20 per dozen: panses &c bunch;
Dutch hyacinths, Il 25 per dozen; mignonette, 35c
per dozen.