Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-05
Truck
Markets
Via Naval Radio Station

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hCam5er Of Commerce cooperating.
T. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Monday. March 4:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Warm, partly cloudy, windy.
Cabbage: Haulings light. Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand improv-
ing, market slightly stronger. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms, bulk per ton round type SIS
Is; crates ~sl.15-1.25: 80-lb. crates
Savoy around S1.3C-1.4O. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB cash track
bulk per ton round type mostly
few lower; crates S1.00-1.10.
WagonloadS cash to growers bulk
per ton mostly $40, few $I2. Car
rots: ffauling5 moderate. Light
wire inquiry, demand limited. mar
ket slightly weaker. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms,
bushel baskets $O.9O-1.Oo. few high
er; crates S135-1.50; 1oo-lb. sacks
mostly $1.50. Carloads and
in mixed car FOB cash track,
baskets $4,000, crates s1.25-
f.35. Beets: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand
usual terms. bushel baskets $4,000;
good for good stock, market dull.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
mostly around $1.25. few
S1.35. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB cash track, bushel baskets rs
soc; crates s~1.t0-1.15.
Corpus Christi obstown Sec
ton: Cool, partly cloudy. Cabbage:
HaulingS light. Moderate wire in
quiry, demand moderate, market
stronger. Carloads FOB
usual terms, round and flat types,
bulk per ton $15-17; cash track no
sales reported.
Primary destinations Of Lower
movement reported Monday.
March 4: Mixed vegetables: S..
8; Houston z; New York g.:
Montreal 2; l each Amarillo, Wich-
tia Falls, Marshall, Dallas, Pitts
Regina, East Hartford, Scott
Denver, Bridgeport. New Ha-
ven, Utica, Toronto. Grapefruit:
] each Beaumont, Fort Worth, Lub-
book. Pittsburgh, Wichita, Kan.
Carrots: st. Louis 3: Brooklyn; l
each New York. Washington. Beets:
4 each st. Louis, New York; Hous-
ton; Brooklyn 1. Radishes: l each
Houston, Fort Worth. Cabbage:
Louis Is: Houston ID; Shreve-
port 5; Chicago a: Pittsburgh 3:
Toronto 2; l each Springfield,
Mass, Fort Worth, Sweetwater,
Birmingham, Omaha.
Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Vancouver,
New Haven. Spinach: I each Lou
Toronto. Lettuce: Jersey
City 2; Philadelphia i. Escarole:
st. Louis l.
Carlot shipments of entire United
reported Monday. March 4:
Cabbage: Texas Sc; Florida %;
Louisiana 2; total u. S. 90 cars.
Carrots: Texas 7; California z; New
York 6: total U. S. 20 cars. Mixed
vegetables: Texas Al; California 81:
Louisiana 5; Florida 8: total U. S.
81 cars. Grapefruit: Texas 5; Flor
ida 81; total U. S. 80 cars. Spring
beans: Florida II; total U. S. II
cars. Spinach: Texas 60; others 8;
total U. s. n cars.
Additional T. Q. p. information
reported Monday, March 4: Cab
bage: Rochester, n. r., and nearby
points: Minimum 43 degrees, max
imum Al degrees. Rain. Demand
too few sales reported TO
quote. Carrots: Rochester, N. T.,
and nearby points: Practically no
demand or trading, no sales report
ed. String beans: Canal Point,
Fla: Warm, partly cloudy. Haul
IlgS heavy at Canal Point, mod
crate at other points. Good wire in
for stringle5S and red Valen-
tines, light for others, market
steady on stringIess and red
Valentines, slightly weaker on 9TH
crs. Carloads FOB cash track, rs
hampers fancy, Stringless
and Valentines s2.00-2.25. mostly
So; refugees mostly SIPS. Most
Refugees and Bountifuls rolled I'M
sold. Spinach: Laredo. Texas:
windy. HaulingS light. Light
Inquiry. demand light, market
dull. Carloads FOB usual terms,
bushel baskets Savoy 40c; cash
track 35c. Spinach: Crystal City.
Texas: Clear, windy. Haulings
moderate, Moderate wire inquiry.
demand moderate, market steady.
Carloads FOB usual terms, bushel
baskets Savoy mostly 40c; cash
track few sales 35c.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Tuesday morning,
5: Mixed vegetables 90:
oeets IS; carrots ID; beets and car
rots IL; cabbage So; eScarole L;
8; grapefruit 5; total 127
Freight movement to date
season: Fruit 1882. vegetables
8,l38. total $50 cars. To same day
last season: Fruit 1,139. vegetables
1885, total 1924 cars.
Reports by radio from important
markets. This mornings sales to
jobberS, unless otherwise stated:
Cabbage
Cincinnati: Showing. SO deg. No
arrivals, on track 10 cars.
heavy, demand moderate.
market firm. Texas round type bulk
per ton $50u5 SIS. Florida pointed
type l l-2 bushel hampers $1.50@
LIS, poorer lower.
Chicago: Clear, 80 deg. Arrived
Florida, ii Texas, on track As
cars. Supplies moderate. demand
and trading moderate, market firm.
Florida pointed type l 1-2 bushel
hampers S1.25@1.50, some poorer
lower. Texas round type crates 1925
few higher, ordinary soft,
leafy $500. Louisiana round type
crates s2.00G225, fair, leafy sl.750
200.
Pittsburgh: Raining, 40 deg. Ar
rived | New York, IS Texas. Sup
plies moderate, demand slow, mar
Set steady. Texas crates round type