Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
THE KITCHEN MARKET.
Poultry Plenty and Lower and Eggs Steady
at Quotations

Meats and vegetables are practically the
same in prices as they were a week AGO
New vegetables from the South are coming
in freely and demand is only fair Florida
Strawberries are to the front, but the price
is rather steep for the average purse The
poultry market has shown a downward drift
the week past, owing to large receipts The
Ohio river steamers have been bringing
large quantities of poultry of late from the
Big Sandy valley, q section which usually
and poultry markets here have been higher
than a Ohios metropolis of late, and hence
products are drifting in this direction.
Florists report quiet trade for the week
past with tendency toward lower prices.
Flowers from New York have been freely
offered of late at prices below our quotations.
AT the fish stalls trade is reported fair Fro
zen stock is now near its end for the season.
and supply of fresh stock is scarcely up to
demand.
Following are latest retail prices of mar
ket basket materials:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks &c per
chuck roast i2c: corned beef, s@lec per IL: spring
lamb, 15c; leg of mutton 12sc for hindquarter and
Sc for forequarter: lon of mutton 15c lamb chops,
20c; stewing pieces &c per fb; veal roasts IadI5c
per H. aud outlets. 20c; pork chops, l217c, and
VEGETABLES AND FRuIT-Cabbage, 1o@25c; po-
half peck: green beans, Csc quarter peck: bic
pumpkins I5G25c: onions. sc half peck; bananas,
per dozen; oranges. 2sa4oc; lettuce, i0c bunch,
punches for 25c new beets lOc, 8 punches 25c; Gu
cumbers, l5@l2Oc apiece celery, 15c a bunch, for
Csc: caulifower 2S050c apiece; apples 15a0c half
peck: tomatoes, 35c quart box: rhubarb, lOc a
bunch, 3 punches for 25c: asparagus. &c bunch:
egg plant. 35d40c apiece: Strawberries. soc box
BUTTER AND EGGs-Good creamery 3aG33c per
ID; fancy brands. 3S63sc; choice country roll 21@
SOC; good cooking butter, lie; fresh eggs l56ll6c
per dozen.
PoULTRY-Live chickens, 9Oc@sl 90 a pair; live
turkeys 1291Sc per Id: live ducks. s56S50c pair;
dressed chickens. 15 to Ice per b ducks IL to 1Sc
per III: turkeys, Is TO zoe.
FISH-Foliowing the articles in this line on
the stalls with prices: Lake saimon 10 10 15c; Cali
fornia salmon. IS to 40c per pound; white fish, l24
to l5c; herring pounds for 25c; spanish mackerel
20c per pound: bluefsh, 15c: habut 2oc; rock
bass, 25c: lake trout 121c; Holsters ooc: green
turtle, 20 to 25c oysters, New York counts. 81 70
gallon; smets. 20c pound; shad 81 90 to q 25
each: scallops, c0c pound; Mackinaw trout i21Sc
per pound; frogs, 81 90 a dozen; clans. sl so
gallon.
FLowERs--La France, 81 90 per dozen; Duchess
of Albany, 81 90 per dozen: Mermets. 81 Is per
dozen; Brides, 81 60 per dozen; white and yellow
roses 75c per dozen: hostess 81 90 per dozen; Sem
ator Voottan roses 81 90 per dozen: Bennetts 81 90
per dozen: Jack roses. u 00dA 90 per dozen: hya-
cinths. SOC per dozen: lily Of the valley. 75c per
dozen: orchids. s75c1sl % each vioets, 81 0O per
hundred; carnations 50c per dozen; lilac. 50c spary
tulips. 51c per dozen: liarcissus, 50c per .dozen
CandGus lilies 50c per dozen: Gala lilies, q 60 per
dozen: daffodis, soc per dozen; Harissi lles " 90
per dozen.