Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-01
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Department of Agriculture, United
States Bureau Of Agricultural Eco
Monies and the San Antonio, Texas
hCsmSer of Commerce cooperating.
F. o. B. shipping point informa-
ticn reported Saturday, March 80:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Warm, partly cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry. demand slow, market
dull. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms, bulk per ton
round type mostly $10-12; carloads
mostly $1,000; crates S0.90-1.O0. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB cash
track bulk per ton round type most
ly $500; crates mostly 90c. few low
er. Wagonloads cash to growers,
bulk per ton mostly $500. Carrots:
Haulings moderate. Moderate wire
inquiry, demand good, Market
steady. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms, bushel baskets
$.90-1.00; crates $1.30-1.40 {. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB cash track,
bushel baskets 10000; crates S1.25-
$40. Beets: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand slow,
market Gull. Carloads and in mixed
FOB usual terms. bushel bas-
kets 80-90c; crates mostly S1.25-1.35.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track, bushel baskets 75-80c;
crates S1.00-1.25. Potatoes: Haul
ings moderate. Moderate wire in
quirv, demand slow. market slightly
weaker. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms, 100-lb sacks Bliss
Triumphs u. S. No. Is $3.50, few
S2.25; cash track mostly $2.25.
String Beans: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry. demand good,
market about steady, Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms,
bushel hampers around $500. poorer
S2.75; oval hampers 10c higher;
cash track S2.75. Wagonloads cash
to growers. mostly $3.50. Onions:
Raymondville and nearby points: |
Haulings moderate. Better wire in
quiry, demand and trading mod
crate, Better wire inquiry, demand
and trading moderate, market
steady. Carloads FOB usual terms,
very few sales crates Yellow Ber-
nudas commercial around $1.5o; in
mixed cars Yellow Bermudas s1.75-
200: Crystal Wax S2.O0-2.25. Wag-
onloads cash to growers yellow Ber-
mudas $1.25-1.40; Crystal Wax
81 .50-1.65.
Corpus Christi Robstown Section:
Warm. partly cloudy. Cabbage:
Haulings light. Light wire inquiry.
demand slow. market dull. Carloads |
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms,
few sales bulk per ton round type
S10-12. Wagonloads cash to grow
ers. $6.00-8.00.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Sunday
and Monday: Mixed Vegetables:
st. Louis 10: Houston 9: 5 each
Shreveport. New York; 2 each Fort
Worth. Enid: 2 each PHILADELPHIA,
Nashville. Denver; l each Waco,
Monomeree. Beaumont. San An
Wichita Falls. WASHINGTON,
st. Cloud Miss. ST. Paul.
CHATTANOOGA, Ashviile. Lexington,
Schenectady, Springfield. Montreal.
Abflene. Co-by, Rochester. Glen
Falls. Baltimore. New Haven, White !
River Junction, Calgary, Dallas.
st. joseph. Spring
Beans: ST. Louis 2: Topeka l. Po-
tatoes: CHICAGO 6; Houston s; ST.
Louis 4: I eech Dallas. Davenport.
Shreveport. Duro. Salina, Indian
apollo. Seattle Cincinnati. New Or
leans. Birmingham. Grepefruit: II
each Houston. Fort Worth; l each
Omaha. Ell Paso.( Wichita. Denver.
San Antonio. Onions: ST. LOWS 3.
Houston IL; New York 4; Chicago
2: / each Boston, Little Rock. Mem
nhis. Salt Inke. Pittsburgh. Dallas.
Cabbage: ST. Louis 81: Houston II;
s each Fort Worth. New London;
Chicago 6: 8 each Seattle. Tex
arkana: 2 each New York. Memphis:
] each Little Rock. Omaha. Des-
Moines, Springfield. MINNEAPOLIS,
Boston, Cincinnati. Win
nipeg. New Haven. Shreveport,
Wslla walla. Sioux Falls. Durham.
Beets and Carrots: /
Shreveport. Carrots: ST. Louis 8;
New York Z: Philadelphia 5: Hous-
ton q: Brooklyn 3; l each Chicago,
Detroit. Montreal. Kansas City.
Minneapolis: Boston 2. Bets: 8
each st. Louis, New York. Parsley:
New York a..
Carlot shipments of entire United1
States reported Saturday and Sum
day: Potatoes: Texas %: Colorado
"a: Florida g.: Idaho 109: Maine
1873: MICHIGAN rs: Minnesota 81;
Wisconsin "a: total u. S. 767 cars.
Onions: Texas 40; others 80; total
IS cars. Grapefruit: Texas 10;
Others 1856: total 1872 cars. Spinach:
Texas Is: Virginia AZ; total u. S. 60
cars. String Beans: Florida Is;
Texas Il: total U. S. IS cars. Cab
bage: Texas SO, Florida "a: South
Carolina 35: total u. S. 167 cars.
Carrots: Texas 81; California .:
total u. S. SO cars. Mixed Vege-
California is; Florida %;
Z; Texas rs: total U. S.
158 cars.
Lower Rio Grnde Wiley movement
reported Monday morning, April l.
Mixed Vegetables 46: Beets S; Car
rots 81: Beets and Carrots 10: Cab
bage 43: Onions At: Potatoes Is,
String Beans 2 freight. 8 express.
PARSLEY 3: Grapefruit II; total 236
GERS. Freight movement to date this
fruit 1871, Vegetables 1880.
total 14o01 cars: to same dav last
season. Fruit 1146. Vegetables 12,51l,
total 1857. cars.
Reports by radio from important
markets.
This mornings sales to jobbers.
otherwise stated:
Onions: St. Louis: Arrived
California, IS Texas. / unknown.
track 10 cars. New supplies
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