New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-14
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
ABUNDANCE AND VARIETY OF GOOD FOOD AT
REASONABLE PRICES.

ABUNDANCE AND VARIETY OF GOOD FOOD AT
REASONABLE PRICES.
The market yesterday had its usual large assort-
ment Of fish, vegetables fruit and poultry, fruit
advancing in price cent two in the last week,
and fish being scarce.
Crane fruit is selling at from % to GO cents each;
strawberries are 20 cents quart tangerines 80
cents a dozen; California blood oranges. GO cents
q dozen: navel oranges 20 cents dozen: Jamaica
oranges 45 cents a dozen: Messina oranges. p cents
DOZEN pneapples. 20 TO 45 cents each; red bananas,
80 cents dozen; yellow bananas. 20 cents dozen;
Winter Nellis pears, 10 cents a doZen; Eastern
Beurre pears. 81 a Dozen Catawba grapes, % cents
q box. Malaga grapes 30 cents a pound; winesap
apples 30 cents a dozen; Spitzenberg and Newtown
pppins Is cents small measure; lady apples. ~
cents a quart. and cooking apples. 40 cents half
peck.
Philadelphia capons are 2s cents a pound; Western
.capons % cents pound; Philadelphia spring roast
inc chickens % cents: State roasting chickens. IS
cents; Philadelphia spring broiling chickens 81 %
to 81 a pair: State broiers. 81 20 pair; Philadel-
pha fowl. 10 cents pound; State fowl, IL cents;
salad fowl 10 cents; frozen ducks. % cents pound;
celery-fed duckngs. % cents: wild mongrel geese,
40 cents; frozen geese, 20 cents; Boston spring
poslnes % cents: Rhode Island turkeys. 30 cents;
roasting turkeys 20 cents; boiling turkeys l6 cents
Wild turkeys sell for 25 pound: Philadel-
pha white squads. 81 dozen; Philadelphia dark
SQUADS 81 50 a DOZEN tame pigeons ~ dozen; quai,
quail 81 40 a dozen; golden plover. 81 30 a dozen;
grass plover, 50 Il dozen; English partridges 20
Dozen reedbirds. 81 25 dozen blackbirds 10 cents
q dozen; venison 40 cents pound; roasting pigs
50 each canvasback ducks. Sc pair; redhead ducks
SO 80 a pair: brant ducks. 81 pair; mallards. 81 %
a pair blue-winged teal, 81 pair; widgeon' ii a
pair: English pheasants, 81 90 pair; German part
ridges, 81 80 a pair. and woodcock, 81 bO pair .,
Black bass cost Is cents pound. frozen Dluehsh -
cents green buefsh, 25 cents; carp Is cents market
GOLDFISH 1914 cents live goldfish Ii cents large eels
I.rv
large fresh mackere. 40 cents EACH large live lob
sters Is cents each: pampano, 30 cents a poundi
large red snappers. Is cents small red snappers IS
cents: Western salmon, IS cents native Spanish
mackere IS cents pound Southern sheephead %
cents; green smelts, 20 cents; large sea bass. 20
North Carolina shad. 81 EACH sole 10 cents
nound: skate rayish cents frozen salmon trout,
is cents pound large weakhsn 10 cents white bait
.ants. cod tongues, 80 cents pound: crab meat 90
cents crawfsh 50 50 hundred; hard crabs. Is cents
a dozen: oyster crabs. Is cents an ounce; shIinps
N cents a quart green turtle, 20 cents pounu ana
large scallops. co cents quar-, -
tsnarap,Is can be had for 80 TO 10 cents bundle:
new beets 10 cents bunch; string DEANS 20 cents =
mart: caulilower, is TO 30 cents each; Savoy red
qd xbite cabbage 10 to IL cents head: carrots.
cents a bunch: shallots. 30 cents a quasa' cucum-
peis, sown celery cents a bunch; table celery 70
cents 10 81 50 bunch eggplant 20 ceh,s ee tn ear
~ cents a bunch: green and brown Kale ~ cents
peck; extra fancy musn ,s mari white red and
vellow onions 65 cents peck; oyster plant ~ cents
bunch: parsnips 20 cents dozen peppers 20 GENTS
a dozen; red peppers, 40 cents string; s"e Spp p
tatoes IL cents q peck: radishes cents q punch
rhubarb 10 cents bunch: Boston lettuce, ~ n,s
head chesTy - eenis 10 cenis head
centc bunch: spinach 10 cents a peer, ,an a.
tomatoes. 90 cents a basket; hothor o tomatoes :"
cents pound.
Western dairy butter sells for Is cents Q pound
and cooking butter 10 cents- -.