Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-10
Truck Markets
Via Naval Radio Station

r. O. B. shipping point information
reported for Friday, March g: Lower
Rio Grande Valley points: Cabbage:
Warm, partly cloudy. Haulings
heavy. Good wire inquiry, demand
active. market stronger. Carloads
and in mixed cars r. o. ID. usual
terms, round type bulk per ton s25-
30, mostly S25-27; crates S1.50-f.75.
Carloads and in mixed cars r. o. B.
cash track, bulk per ton S20-25:
crates $1.25-1.50. Wagonloads each
TO growers. bulk per ton $500.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Demand
moderate, market steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars F.. o. B.. usual
terms, bushel baskets mostly 1880
LOO; crates S1.4o-1.50. Carloads and
in mixed cars r. o. B. cash track.
bushel baskets $4,000: crates mostly
Sl.25. Carrots: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry. demand good.
market slightly stronger. Carloads
r. O. B. usual terms, bushel baskets
mostly $I.1o-1.25; crates g1.50-I.T5.
Carloads and in mixed cars r. o. b.
cash track, bushel baskets around
Sl.O0; crates S1.40-1.50.
Robstown-Corpus Christi section.
Cabbage; Warm, cloudy. Haulinra
moderate. Good wire inquiry. de-
mand good. market stronger. Car
loads +. o. b. usual terms. round and
Hat types bulk per ton too few sales
TO establish market. Practically All
present shipments are previous sales.
Primary destinations Lower Rio
Grande Valley movement Friday.
March 9: Cabbage: Houston ca: St
Louis ~ Chicago III; Shreveport g.;
. each New York, philadelphia; &
each Baton Rouge. Memphis; q each
Washington, Toronto, Birmingham.
II. Worthi ! each Waco, Des Moines'
Brooklyn. Rocky Mount, Cleveland
Jersey City, McGehee. Pittsburch'
regina, Tupelo, Jackson, Miss. EVA
Corinth. Mixed vegetables: Hons,
ton "a; New York ID; ST. Louis IL.
TT Worth a; Chicago g; / eacb
shawnee, Nashville, Washincton
Pittsburgh, Tulsa, Memphis. Enid
lexarkana, Shreveport, Birminrharn
North Bay, Ont. Carrots: 81. f.oui,
y; Hoboken s.; 4 each Houston. rhi.
cagso, New York; PHILADELPHIA 2: 1
each Minneapolis, Boston, Buffalo
cleveland. Beets. st. Louis a.
brooklyn =; 4 each P~hi.adeIphia
boston, New York. Beets and cs-'
rots; st. Louis 8; Houston q. 1 csrh
PITTSBURGH, Springfield, Mass, Mime
apoiis. Chicago, Toronto. AIharv
memphis, New York. Buffalo. pas,
81 Louis 4. TurhIps: Blrmlnvhsm I
spinach: 81. Louis 4. "
Carlot shipments OF entire rJnitad
states reported Friday. March d.
cabbage: California 4, Flor;d. =
New York 20. Texas 1852: total n =
1872 cars. Spinach: Texas 1Ie Csl;
fornia /. South Carolina a. tatsi n
:. lxO cars. Carrots: California a
Indiana l., Ohio 4. Nav Veil -
Texas SO. total U. s. 55 cars MI
ed vegetables: California a. rrdisr.
l.. Ohio !, New York 10. Texas az.
total Y. 5. lis cars. Potatoer. rrio'
RADIO SO. Idaho zoe. Michigan Ga. Mir.
nesota 1872, New York II. Nnrth M
kota 43, Washington IA Wisrar.;s
ioSi total U. s. 1880 cars. Crane.
fruit: California 3, Florida az, a.
eaL y. :. 30 cars. String beans. Tn.
Rochester, N. Y. r. o. B. informs.
ton reported Friday, March ii. Cav
page: Min. 20 degrees, max. 27. ne
mand good, market stronger. Car.
loads r. O. B. usual terms. Dan;~h
type bulk per ton $12-I5, mostly
around sl5- Carrots: Demand rood
market stronger. Carloads +. q n
1sIai terms, sacked per 100 lbs s1s0-
spinach y. o. r.. information 80
ported Friday. March q: crvstsI
City.' Warm. cloudy Hauiinrs heavy
good wire inquiry. demand slow. mar,
get unsettled. Carloads r. o. n. rsah
truck, hushel baskets mostly 4or.
usual terms assoc. -
Lower Rio Grande Valley movs-
ment reported Saturday, March Ia.
Mixed vegetables Sc, turnipg a.
beets 10, beets and carrots ID. y.
rots X. cabbage 1877, parsley i. To-
tai 262 cars. Freight movement "a
date this s~eeson-fruit ff4a. vere-