Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-24
AMPLE SUPPLY OF
ONIONS WILL BE
FOUND ON MARKET
PROMISE HELD OUT CROPS WILL
MAKE PRICES LOWER TO HOUSE.
WIVES At BIGGER MARKETS.
CARLOAD SHIPMENTS REACHED 80
or MORE CARS PER GAY FOR FIRST
TIME ON APRIL II LAST.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Apr. .24.-There
is n good prospect that ample supplies Of
onions will soon be available to house
wives in nearly all the more important
markets at prices considerably lower than
have prevailed during the period of short
age of onnion supplies ont of which the
country is just emerging.
Carload shipments of onions from Tex
ns, as reported geographically by the rail
roads to the United States Department of
Agriculture, Office of Markets, reached 90
or more ears per day for the first time in
Il)lT on April IL, when 92 ears were ship
ped. On April Is, 1917, Ill ears were
shipped. The largest number of ears of
onions shipped from Texas during any one
day in 1916 was on May II when ll9 ears
were shipped.
day as early a. March 30 in 1916. The
number of ears of Texas onions shipped
10 April Is, 1916, totaled 1905 ears,
whereas only 565 ears have been shipped
to the same date this year.
However, although the present season is
approximately two weeks later than that
OF last year owing to the setback from Sc
we're cold weather, the total onion acreage
Iliarted in Texas this season is estimated
nj I2,O50 acres. In 1916, when approx
mately l0,057 acres were planted, 4.9O3
ears of onions were shipped. Ii j. esti-
mated that the total onion shipment of
1al7 will reach 6,3SS ears, provided the
aanl;t,a, 90 tho .~n. ~ ra,nart.l ..a Anil
I remains unchanged.
Supplies Of onions in many of the large
markets have recently been very low, due
TO the shortage in the last onion crop,
hence prices On Texas onions at both ship
ping points and in the markets have re-
NAMED firm during the wee kending Apr. 2.
1917, in spite of increasingly heavy ship
ments. On the two days. April ~ and IS,
203 ears were shipped. Telegrapfic re-
lports from many of the larger markets in
dictate, however, that the demand has been
strong and prices unusually high when the
large number of ears now being shipped
daily i taken into consideration.
Carload prices for yellow Bermuda on
ions f. o. b.. Texas shipping point, have
ranged from $3.50 to $3.50 per bushel
crate during the week, April Q to April IA.
Earlier in the week white onions sold rs
high as $500 per bushel crate. +. o. b.
prices towards the end of the week aver
aged $500 to $2.75 per crate for both the
white and yellow onions. These prices
are about $1.25 to $50 per crate higher
than the average prices received by pro-
ducers last season.
Jobbing prices ON Texas onions showed
a decline Of from q 10 70 cents per
crate, compared with average prices dur
ing the preceding week, owing to heavier
shipments and larger receipts in the mar
kets.
In the larger markets, Jobbing prices
have ranged from 1925 to $500 per bushel
crate (mostly $500 to $3.50 per crate
for fancy yellow Bermuda onions and
from $2.75 to $500 for the choice grade
and for 'boilers." Towards the close of
the week fancy Texas onions were being
jobbed ut $3.50 to $3.50 per bushel crate III
the large markets Of the Middle West and
from $4.25 to $500 per crate in the more
important eastern markets.
White onions have generally been quot
ed ut from 10 to % cents per crate higher
than yellow onions in CARROTS (. @. b. ship
ping points, and from Is to so cents per
crate higher than yellow onions when sold
in large lots TO jobbers in the larger mar
kets.
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