Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-20
Truck Markets

Lover Rio Grande Ealle- Points:
Cabbage: Cool. clear. Haulings light.
Good wire inquiry, demand moderate.
market firm. Carloads and IN mixed
cars r. ". II. usual terms. round tyne
bulk per ton mostly $35-37.5O: crates
S2.lO-2.25. Carloads and in mixed
cars +. o. B. cash track $3.50; crates
mostly $500. Wagonloads cash 10
growers, bulk per ton mostly s25.few
SZs. Beets: Haulings light. Demand
moderate. market steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars n. q. II. usual
terms, bushel baskets mostly around
S1.OO; crates $1.25-1.50. Carloads and
in mixed cars r. o. Il. cash track,
bushel baskets around 90c; crates
mostly Sl.25. few higher. Carrots:
Haulings light. Moderate wire in
quiry, demand moderate, market
steady. Carloads r. o. B. usual
terms. bushel baskets S1.i0-1.25;
crates $l.60-i.75; clipped sacked per
100 lbs. SIPS. Carloads r. o. b.
cash track, and in mixed cars. bushel
baskets $1.00-1.1O; crates $I.50-l.60.
String Beans: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand good,
market slightly weaker. In mixed
cars and express lots r. o. b. usual
terms, bushel hampers green mostly
$3.50, few $500; cash track mostly
$3.35. Wagcnloads cash to growers
mostly $500 per bushcl. Potatoes:
Haulings increasing. Light wire in
quiry, demand limited. market
steady. Carloads. and in mixed Ears
F. o. B. usual terms, Bliss Triumphs
u. $. No. Is sacked per 100 lbs.
mostly $500; cash track mostly SAFE.
Wagonloads cash to growers, practic-
ally all stock consigned.
Robstown-Corpus Christi Section:
Cabbage: Cool, clear. Haulings
moderate, moderate wire inquiry. de-
mand good. market firm. Carloads
f. O. b. usual terms. round and flat
types bulk per ton $500. Wagon
loads cash to growers mostly s2s per
ton.
Carlot shipments of entire United
States reported Monday. March 49,:
Cabbage: Texas rs. Florida ii, New
York 40, total II. S. 80 cars. Carrots:
New York 3, Texas 6, California .,
total u. s. rs cars. Mixed vegeta-
bles: Unreported. Potatoes: Colora-
do II. Florida 4, Idaho 122. Maine
139, Michigan 40, Minnesota 112, Long
Island 8. New York 10, North Dakota
81. Texas !. Washington 10I, Wiscon-
sin SO, total II. s. 744 cars. Cuba 8.
String beans: Texas 4, Florida s.
total ". s. Q cars. Spinach: Texas
%, South Carolina 4, Virginia 2, to-
tai U. s. 10.
String Beans r. O. B. information
reported Monday. March 10: Belle
Glade-Chosen. Fla: Cool. partly
cloudy. No frost this section Sunday
night. Frost predicted tonight
Monday. Haulings light, inSreas-
ing slightly. no carlot sales reported,
Spinach r. o. b. information re-
ported Monday, March H., Crystal
City: Clear, cool. Haulings heavy;
moderate wire inquiry: demand lim-
tied; market about steady. Carloads
+. o. B. usual terms bushel baskets
40-5Oc; cash track, too few sales re-
ported to quote.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Monday, March ~:
Mixed vegetables n: potatoes p;
escarol L; beets s.; beets and carrots
4; carrots Ii; cabbage IS: total o.
cars Express movement reported
today nom Freight movement "
date this season: Fruit 1.l46: vere.
tables l0,s19; total 1866 cars. Emu.
ties ordered today iced 93 cars.
1885 a. m. March 20. 1928.
Vegetable jobbing markets report
ed Tuesday morning, March 20:
Cabbage: Clear, 33 degrees. Arrived
2 California, 8 Texas, on track ~
cars. Supplies liberal, demand mod.
crate. market about steady. Te<as
round type crates best mostly 8 $50
inferior $3.00-3.25. st. Louis: Cloudy
80 degrees. Arrived ! New York. 7a
Texas, IN track los cars. Supplies
heavy, demand slow. market dun. Tex.
rs round type crates mostly $500:
bulk per ton best mostly $3.50. fai,
$50. Carlot sales to outside points
St Louis basis, Texas round tyne
bulk per ton / car $3.50; crates
cars $780, 3 cars $50. Carlot sales
invoice weight st. Louis basis. Tex.
g round type bulk per ton 4 ca,
$3.50 Boston: Clear, "a degrees
Arrived 2 New York, 2 Texas. ~
track S8 cars. Supplies heavy. de.
mand moderate, market steady. Tex,
. round type barrels packed local,
ly $5-5O-3.65; crates fair 20 ordinary
$~2-50-3.00. lettuce crates s2-T5-3n M
Kansas City: Clear. s3 degrees. Ar.
rived i California, on track z ear
Supplies liberal. demand SLOW. mar
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