Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-19
TIE MARKET BASKET.
Poultry Scarce and Firm, and Ocean Prod
ucts Are Quiet.

Poultry Scarce and Firm, and Ocean Prod
ucts Are Quiet.
At the Diamond market stalls trade is re-
ported quiet for the week past. Price OF
vegetables has not been SO low tor years at
this season of the year. A year ago pota-
toes, onions, cabbage and apples were more
than double present prices. At the low
prices markets are not so lively as they
were at the high prices of last year. Poultry
is in light supply and firm at quotations.
Choice creamery butter is slower in a jobbfng
way than it was a week ago, but the reduc-
ton is so light that retail prices are not
changed.
Recent storms have had the effect of cur
failing receipts of ocean products, and East
ern fish are q shade higher at sources of sup
ply. Frozen stock is close to the end OF its
career. Oysters are in good demand, but in
other lines of ocean products demand is
light at unchanged prices. Florists report
a quiet trade for the week, with tendency to
lower prices.
Following are latest retail prices of mar
ket basket materials:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks, ssc per
b sirloin, 1s@2Oc: standing rib roast, 1sS2Oc:
chuck roasts, 12c; corned beef s910c per 70 spring
SC for forequarter oin of mutton. 15c; lamb chops.
c; stewing pieces &c per p; veal roasta ,S l25S@l5e
VEGETABLES AND FRU1r-Cabbages. 5@1oc; pota-
half peck: green beans, s5c a quarter peck: wax
beans, 35c quarter peck; pie pumpkins, 15G25c;
onions. 25c a half peck; bananas, zoe dozen;
carrots. SC a bunch; lemons, 2O925c per dozen;
oranges, 15d35c: lettuce, l0c per bunch, punches
for 25c; beets. punches for 10c cucumbers 20925c
apiece; celery, SC bunch; caufihower. 1I1Soc
apiece; apples 15l20c half peck; tomatoes S5c
quart box; Spanish onions, &c apiece; Malaga
grapes, 2N025c u pound: beets. 10c u bunch, Tor
25c.
BUTTER AND EGGs-Good creamery. 3a0ssc per
ID fancy brands 35G36c; choice country rolls. sd
&c; good cooking butter, lie; fresh eggs, 1a9l6c
per dozen.
PoULrRY-Live chickens. 10000 pair: live
turkeys 190i2c per b; live ducks, 15Gs5c pair;
dressed chickens, Is to 16c per ID; ducks. IL to 1Sc
per 10 turkeys, 16 to Isc.
FIsH-Following the articles in this line on
the stalls. with prices Lake salmon 10 to 15c: Cal
ifornia salmon IS to 4Oc per pound; white fish l2s
to 15c; herring, pounds for 5c; Spanish mackerel
25c lake trout 12Xc: lobsters 2oc green turtle
20 to 25c oysters, New York counts, 81 IS per gall
Ion: smets, zoe pound shad. 81 90 to 81 25 each;
scallops. zoe pound; Mackinaw trout 121sc per
pound; frogs. 100 dozen; clans, 81 80
gallon.
FLOwERS-La France, 81 so per dozen: Duchess
of Albany 81 so per dozen Mermets. 81 SO per dozen:
Brides, 81 so per dozen: white and yellow roses.
81 90 per dozen; hostes, 81 so per dozen: Senator
Wootten roses. 81 so a dozen; Bennetts, 81 so per
dozen: hyacinths, SOC per dozen: lily of the val
ley. 75c per dozen: orchids. 75c TO 81 90 each;
volets 81 D hundred: carnations. soc per dozen;
freezia SOC per dozen: lilac. SOC spray: tulips. soc
per dozen: narcissus. soc per dozen: Canddus lilies,
75c per dozen; Gala lilies, y 30 per Dozens dafo-
dis, 50c per dozen.