Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-07
Truck Markets
Via Naval Radio Station

F. 0. B. shipping point information
reported for Tuesday, March s:
Lower Rso Grande Valley points:
Cabbage: Warm, clear. Haulings
fairly heavy. Good wire inquiry, de-
mand active, market strong. Car
loads and in mixed cars II. o. B.
usual terms, round type bulk per ton
$l6-1S; crates $I.20-1.3O. Wagon
loads cash to growers, bulk per ton
1873, few $l2. Beets: HauIings mod
crate, demand moderate, market
steady. Carloads and in mixed cars
+. o. b. usual terms, bushel baskets
mostly around 81; crates $1.4O-l.5O:
loose per dozen punches mostly doc.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Good
wire inquiry, demand good. trading
light, market firm. Carloads +. O..
3. usual terms. bushel baskets most
ly $1.00-1.i0; crates $t.4O-1.6O: loose
per dozen punches 3O-4Oc.
Robstown-Corpus Christi section:
Cabbage: Warm, rained during day.
Practically no haulings. Good wire
inquiry. demand moderate. market
stronger. Carloads r. o. B. usual
terms, round and flat types bulk per
ton, too few sales to establish mar
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Primary destinations Lower Rio
Grande Valley movement Tuesday.
March s.:
Cabbage: Houston %, ST. Louis 10.
Shreveport 3, Memphis 5, Brooklyn
9. New York 8; 2 each Chicago. Fort
Worth, Beaumont, McGhee: / each
Little Rock, Detroit, Buffalo, Allan
ia, Washington Dallas, Jackson. To-
ronto, Sheffield, Meridian, Logan w.
va, hatcher, Birmingham, Lexa,
Sumter. Mixed vegetables: Houston
u, New York II, st. Louis 3. Shreye-
port :, Jersey City 2; I each Kansas
City, Mankat0, Dallas, Springfield.
D., Waco, Philadelphia, Lawton. De-
troit, Minneapolis, Wichita Falls.
Nashville. Monroe, Tyler, Lexington.
carrots: St. Louis, Hoboken a each:
chicago q; ! each Houston. Toronto.
New York, Kansas City, PHILADELPHIA
Shreveport. Beets: New York &. /
each st. Louis, Chicago. Beets and
carrots: st. Louis 2; 1 each New Ha-
ven, Newark, Baltimore. Radishe~.
Kansas City /. Grapefruit: / each
Houston, Dallas.
earlot shipments az entire Tr;tnd
states reported Tuesday, March a.
Saobage: California 2, Florida q.
re" YORK 80, Pennsylvania 5, Texas
Iu4, Washington /, total u. s. $50
cars. Mixed vegetables: Louisiana 4.
FLORIDA 8, California IL, Texas III, to-
tai U. 5. 0 cars. Bermuda 20. MexN
leo J.; Spinach: Texas II incomplete.
South Carolina 3, total u. Il. III
cars. Carrots: Texas 21, California
3. New York II, total u. s. 81 cars:
Grapefruit: Texas 2, Florida SO. to-
tai T. s. 55 cars Cuba 5; Potatoes:
Colorado s., Idaho 122. Maine 15s,
Michigan ~, Minnesota 2I5, New
York IA, Long Island Is, Washington
IL, Wisconsin 70, total U. S. s21
cars. Bermuda 8. Cuba 6.
Rochester, ". ", r. o. B. informa-
ton reported Tuesday, March 81:
Cabbage: Min. II degrees, max. "a.
Demand light, market firm. Carloads
F. O. B. usual terms, Danish type
bulk per ton small TO medium $50;
Carrots: Demand moderate, market
firm. Carloads r. o. b. usual terms,
100 lb. sacks SIPS.
Belle Glade-Chosen, Fla.s r. O. B.
information reported Tuesday, March
s: String beans: Very warm, clear.
Haulings light. demand good for
good stock, market firm, no carlot
sales reported.
Spinach r. O. B. information re-
ported Tuesday, March 81: Laredo:
Cloudy, warm, haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand mod
crate. market dull. Carloads #. Q. B.
cash track bushel baskets S5c; usual
terms 40-45c.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Wednesday, March IA:
Mixed vegetables S., turnips 4, spin
ach 4, beets o. beets and carrots IL
carrots 81, cabbage 134, grapefruit !,
total $50 cars. Express movement to-
day. lettuce 2, mixed vegetables !.
Freight movement to date this sea-
son-fruit LAO, vegetables 1854, TO-
tai s.774 cars. Empties ordered TO-
day 16S cars.
Cabbage: Chicago: Clear, 81 de-
rrees. Arrived l Texas, on track -
ears. SUPPLIES liberal. demand moder-
ate. market firm. Texas round type
crates best $2.25-2.50. st. LOUIS.
Clear. As degrees. Arrived 3 Texas,
On track as cars. Supplies moderate,
demand moderate, market slightly
stronger. Texas round type bulk
per ton $3.50; crates $2.40-2.6O;
bulk per ton Savoy few sales 500
CarIot sales TO outside points s..
Louis basis, Texas round type bulk
per ton / car $40. Philadelphia:
Clear, 80 degrees. Arrived ! New
York. 2 Texas, on track 26 cars. New
supplies moderate, demand moderate,
market slightly stronger. Texas
round type crates SECESSION. fancy
S3.I5-3.25. Cincinnati: Cloudy. 81
degrees. Arrived 3 New York, 3
Texas, on track Is cars. Supplies
heavy, demand moderate, market
steady. Texas round type crates
.S2.25-2.60; bHlk per ton $45-50. Bos-
tons Clear, % degrees Arrived s