Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-26
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States Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies and the San Antonio, Texas,
hCGmSer of Commerce cooperating.
F. o. B. Shipping Point Informa-
ton Reported Monday, March 25:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points;
Warm, partly cloudy.
Cabbage: Eaulings light. Light
wire inquiry, demand and trading
very slow, market weak. Carloads
in mixed cars f. o. b. usual terms
bulk per ton round type mostly
around $1,000; crates $1!00@1.10.
Carloads and in mixed cars f. o. b,
cash track-bulk per ton round type
$40; crates mostly 90c. Wagon
loads cash to growers-bulk per ton
S6-8.
Carrots: Hsuling5 moderate. Mod
crate. Moderate wire inquiry, de-
mand moderate, market steady.
loads and in mixed cars f. o. b.
usual terms-bushel baskets coca
$1.00; crates $1.3501.40, fancy S1.50.
Carloads and in mixed cars f. o. b.
cash track-bushe baskets 80c@90c;
S1.25@1.40.
Beets: Heulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate, market about steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars f. O.. b. usual
termS-bushel baskets 80c@9Oc;
crates mostly $1.25@1.A0. Carloads
and in mixed cars f. o. b. cash track
|-bushel baskets 7Oc@8Oc; crates
S1.10@1.25.
Potatoes: Haulings increasing.
Mod. wire inquiry, demand limited,
market weaker. In mixed cars f. o.
b. usual terms-bushel baskets 00c0
Doc; crates mostly $1.25@1.40. Car
loads and in mixed cars f. o. b. cash
t r a C k-bushel baskets 70c@ 3Oc;
crates $1.10Q1.25.
Potatoes: Haulings increasing.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand linn
tied, market weaker. In mixed cars
f. o. b. usual terms-1O0-lb. sacks
Bliss Triumphs U. S. No. Is, few
early sales $3.50, late sales $500;
cash track $2-75. Wagonloads cash
to growers-$2.25@2.50.
String Beans: Haulings moderate.
Demand moderate, market weaker.
In mixed cars f. o. b. usual terms
bushel hampers green, Stringless,
quality and conditio n~generally good
$3.50, poorer lower; cash track
mostly S3.25.
Onions: Raymondville and near
by points: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand
slow, market about steady, very few
sales. In mixed cars f. o. b. cash
fy1 r -9r-o+nc ~ ~ Do~~.l--
commercial pack $2.25@2.50; usual
terms-very few sales $2.7593.O0.
Wagonloads cash to growers, Yellow
Bermudas, crates around $500.
Corpus Christi RobStoWn Section:
Warm, partly cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Light wire inquiry, demand slow.
market weak. Carloads and in
mixed cars f. o. b. usual terms
very few sale sbulk per ton round
type mostly $1,000. Wagonloads
cash growers mostly $500.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley Movement Reported Monday,
March Is:
Grapefruit: San Benito 8; 1
each Houston, Lubbock, San An
tonic, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Dali
las. Carrots: 4 each st. Louis,
Brooklyn; l each Camden, Boston,
Ottawa. Beets: l each Houston,
St. Louis, Glassboro. Parsley: New
York 1. Cabbage: St. Louis Is:
Houston 10; New York s; Shreve-
port z; 5 each Chicago, New Lon
don, Wis, Pittsburgh 4; 2 each
Memphis, Detroit, Salt Lake City,
Winnipeg; l each Jackson, Miss.
Little Rock, Indianapolis, Norfolk,
Asheville, Glenn Falls, Boston, To-
ledo, Edmonton, Toronto. Onions:
Galveston 3; 2 each Houston, st.
Louis, Pittsburgh /. Potatoes:
Houston 4; l each Salt Lake City,
Chicago, Little Rock, Shreveport,
Nashville. st. Louis, C~or5icana, Fort
Worth. Turnips: st. Louis, l. Spin
ach: Chicago l. Mixed Vegetables:
Houston 5; 3 each Dallas, New
York; 2 each Philadelphia, st. Lou
IS; | each jacksonville. Lubbock,
SWeetwater, Plainview, San Angelo,
Abilene, Amerillo, Wichita Falls,
Liberal, Kansas City, Cleveland,
Laureal, Decatur, Morristown, Bos-
ton, Ottawa, Hazelton, Nashville,
enid, Seattle and Chickasha.
Lower Pio Grande Valley Move
ment Reported Tuesday Morning,
March 26: Mixed vegetables "A;
parsley 3; beets 5; carrots II: beets
and carrots 5; cabbage SO; onions s:
potatoes Is; turnips 1: grapefruit s:
total 1877 cars. Freight movement
to date this season. Fruit 1895.
vegetables 1902, 13,497 cars; to
same day last season. Fruit LAS,
vegetables 11,705, total 1881 cars.
Additional F. o. B. information
reported Monday, March Is: String
beans: Canal points, Fla: Hot.
clear. H%aulings light. Good wire
inquiry, demand good, market
slightly stronger. Wagonloads cash
to growers-7-8 bushel hampers
Refugees $500 @ ESQ; BountifuIs
S2.25Q2.65: stringless $1.75@2.25;
Valentines s1.50@2.5O. No carlot
sales reported. Quality improving.
Spinach: Crystal City, Texas:
Hot, clear. Haulings moderate.
Light wire inquiry, demand light.
market dull. very few sales. Car
loads f. o. b. usual terms-bushel
baskets Savoy 35c@ 40c; cash track
35c. Many rolled to connections on
basis 30c guaranteed +. O.. b. loading
point.
Reports by Rdaio from important