New-York tribune., 1896-04-04
PRICES ~ THE MARKETS.
SPRING VARIETY AND ABrNDANcE-FlSH MAY
BE CHEAPER AFTER LENT

SPRING VARIETY AND ABUNDANCE FISH MAY
BE CHEAPER AFTER LENT
Tho market yesterday had all the abundance and
variety Of spring IN the line OF fruits vegetables
oggs pouitry and fish. Now that Lent Is about
over n smart drop In the price OF fish may be eX-
pccted.
The best American Hamburg hothouse grapes
sell ro- 81 n pound; Florida strawberries. ~ 10 %
cents a quart Malaga grapes, 50 cents pound;
ravor oranges 20 10 G5 cents a dozen; Messina
ORANGES . cents dozen; California blood oranges,
% to % cents dozen; pineappes 40 to 90 cents eacn
red bananas 20 cents dozen: yellow bananas %
conts a dozen: winter Nes pears. 90 cents n dozen;
Easter Beurre pears. 81 dozen; maple sugar 10
cents a pound: Baldwin apples. 81 90 a barrel;
cocoanuts is TO ~ cents each; Cata"pa grapes "
cents small basket
orga siz. hothouse breakfast broilers sell for 81
q nair and small size broilers. 81 10 pair; Phila-
deIphia brong chickens. 81 10 pair; State broilns
chickens 81 a pair: Philadelphia roasting chickehs'
%, cents pound state roasting chickens. is cents:
Philadelphia capons. % cents: slips p cents Phila-
doIphia fowl. l5 cents: State fowl IA cents salad
fowl 70 cents; frozen ducks. % cents: ceery-fed
duckllngs 25 cents: frozen geese 20 cents; Boston
cosllncs "A cents: wild mongrel geese. 40 cents;
Rhode Island turkeys. 80 cents: roasting turkeys,
., cents and boiling turkeys. IS cents.
wild turkeys cost % cents a pound; Philadelphia
white squads. 50 rs a dozen; Philadelphia dark
lg y to n
tame pigeons 81 70 a dozen; quail 81 dozen; Eng
rsh SHINE 81 a dozen; Egyptian quail. 81 a dozen:
soden plover 81 90 dozen: grass plover. 50 dozen;
black birds 20 cents dozen; reed birds. 70 cents TO
81 30 n dozen; prairie chickens and grouse. s. % a
palr- partridge 81 so pair; ptarmigan. 81 a pair
German partridge 81 so a pair: Brazilian pheasants,
q u A pair; blackcock. 81 IS pair: English pheas-
ants 81 20 n pair brant, 81 pair Wild geese 81 20
each: blue winged teal. 81 pair malards. 81 80 a
n,ir. canyasbacks IS n pair: redheads. 50 pair.
uavre de Grace blackhead ducks, 81 % pair roast
ing pigs 80 each and sweetbreads, - % TO " d
dozen. , - 40 . . .,,,,. .,r,naa
boiling bass 20 cents, halibut 20 cents; knshsh, ~
cents large live lobster 20 cents; Spanish macke'sl
., cents Iompano. ls cents; green turtle 20 cents
white bait cents salmon. y cents large sea oass'
S cents pan bass 10 cents large table dressed e-is
TX cents, wcaknsh i6 cents. whltefsh Is cents; white
perch II cents. large green smells Is cents salmon
Trout Il cents ba .ksh y cents m luxe X cni
fish cents. live Goldfish. II cents nOundtrs cents
haddock. cents buck shads . cents 10 eacn; coIts Srs
tongues - cents poLnd CRAB meat " cents; I IRE
mackere 81 cents each; herrngs cents poun5 ID
cents; Southern kinsish 20 cents: frozen salmon .
cents: Western salmon 30 to 30 cents; FLORIDA puck
sbad 75 cents each; Florida roe shad. 81 y each;
shad roes a cents a pair; crayfish. 80 cents hun
drcd: hard crabs, s. 20 hundred oyster crabs - a
a quart prawns 81 25 gallon. and scallops. 81 10
Asparagus sells from 10 to 80 cents bunch; beets,
10 cents bunch: artichokes 70 cents each JeruSa
cents quart wax beans. 3 cents quart; cauii, h
Cabbage. 10 to p cents head; cucumbers. %
cents each: cranberries. 20 cents quart; fancy
table celery % ssns cents each ta % garlic s Cents
bunch ieeks. cents a bunch; spring green onions.
10 cents bunch mushrooms ~ cents cen ys,1w pDud and
white onions 20 to 30 cents quart; Spanish onions
cents each okra 10 cents dozen oyster plaht
i5 to q cents each: Bermuda potatoes. 2b cents
small measure sweet potatoes % nd Geh's sasisSes.
cents q bunch.