Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-04
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Department of Agriculture, United
States Bureau Of Agricultural Eco
Monies and the San Antonio, Texas,
hCamber Of Commerce cooperating.
r. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Saturday, Feb. 2:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Cold, cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings light. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market firm. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB usual terms, bulk per ton
round type few sales $3.50, very few
sales high as $500; crates Sl.40G
l.50. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB cash track very few sales, bulk
per ton round type Sl7.50@2o.00;
crates Sl.15d1.25. Wagonloads cash
TO growers, bulk per ton $500.
Carrots: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate. mar
ket firm. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms very few sales,
bushel baskets soc; crates SI.35M
lao. Carloads and in mixed ears
FOB cash track very few sales,
bushel baskets mostly around 75c;
crates Sl.15Hl.25.
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wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market firm. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB usual terms very few sales
bushel baskets mostly around zoe;
crates mostly around $1.35. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB cash track
bushel baskets 70G75c; crates S1.l5
M1.25.
Spinach: Haulings very light and
nrNW Tnr EsrwnA nmwH s~wLN vew- -
curry, demand slow, market dull.
Carloads FOB usual terms, no sales
reported; in mixed ears bushel bask-
cts Savoy very few sales around Coo;
in mixed cars FOB cash track very
few sales around soc.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Saturday and Sunday:
Cabbage: Texas 27. Florida 30.
New York p, Louisiana n; total u.
s. 50 cars.
Carrots: California Is, Texas ),
New York III; total III. s. "a cars.
Mixed Vegetables: Texas 80. Flor
ida 10, Louisiana 16, California IA;
total L.. S. Il6 cars.
Grapefruit; Texas 10; total U. S.
l67 cars.
Mixed Citrus: Texas /; total U.
S. 80 cars.
Spinach: Texas Sc; total u. S. 40
ears.
Additional r. o. b. information re-
ported Saturday, February 2:
Cabbage: Rochester. N. ". and
nearby points: Min. III deg. y 20
deg. Showed during day. Demand
improving, market firm. Carloads
Z. y. Il. usual terms. bulk per ton
Danish small to medium $SsRaO;
mostly $40, few $40; sacked per ton
S38G43, mostly $42643.
Carrots: Rochester. n. Y. and
nearby points: Demand limited. mar
ket steady. Carloads FOB usual terms
loo ID. sacks So; bushel baskets cut.
Washed s1.S5.
Spinach: Laredo. Texas: Cloudy.
cool. Haulings light. light wire hi
quiry, practically no demand on trad
ing.
Spinach: Crystal City. Texas:
Cloudy, cool. Haulings moderate.
light wire inquiry, practically no
demand or trading.
Lower Rio GrSnde Valley move
ment reported Sunday ard Monday.
Feb. 81:
Mixed vegetables 80, beets /. car
rots 3. beets and carrots 5, cabbage
Y, lettuce ], parsley /. potatoes 2.
grapefruit II. mixed citrus Il: total
81 cars. Freight movement 10 date
this season. Fruit lies. vegetables
$3.50, total 1898 cars: to same dnv
last season: Fruit 10iO, vegetables
1923. total 1863 cars.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Saturday
and Sunday:
Grapefruit: Fl. Worth 7, Dallas ;.
Houston 2; l each Cedar Rapids.
F~airbury. Oklahoma City. Amarillo,
Omaha. Waco, Tulsa. Potatoes: /
each st. Louis, Dupe. Lettuce: Jer-
sey City I. Cabbage: Houston 3,
Z. Louis 5, Philadelphia 2: / each
Springfield, Detroit. Toronto. Bir-
mingham, Evansville, Harrisburg,
Memphis. Little Rock. Indianapolis,
Nashville. Parsley: New York 2
Carrots: st. Louis 6, Houston 9,
3oston ?; l each Louisville, New
York. Providence. Mixed Citrus
Omaha l. Beets: New York /
liked Vegetables: Houston 9. WITCH.
ita 8; 2 each Memphis, Oklahoma
City. Wichita Falls. St. Louis. Chi.
cage, Denver; ] each Dallas, Texar.
ANAAAAs 2EAAMH $50 NAR1hN
Jaw. Canada. Huntington, Columbia
III Paso. Shreveport, Kansas City
Washington. New York. Pittsburgh
Lansing, Springfield. Iurnips: Kan
sas City 4.
Reports by radio from important
markets. This mornings sales L
jobhers, unless otherwise stated.
Cabbage:
Cincinnati: Partly cloudy, II deg
Arrived Louisiana ?, Texas /, on tract
10 cars. Supplies heavy. demand
moderate, market steady. New Yorl
nix per ton Danish type mostly S5l
cw SIS. Texas crates round type
ESQ. few $2.75; bulk per ton s4sl
1. Florida ! IL bushel hamper:
ointed type Sl.50. few lower.
New York: Clear. 20 deg. Arrived
lorida IL. New York 6. South Caro-
m /, Texas z, Florida s by boat
CIV stock supplies moderate. de.
land moderate market slightly weak.
2. Florida l l-2 bushel hamper.