Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-14

Furnished to The Herald ~ Texas
Department Of Agriculture, United
States Bureau Of Agricultural Eco
Monies and the San Antonio, Texas,
Chamber Of Commerce cooperating.
r. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Sat. JAM IL:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
(Cool. partly cloudy.)
Cabbage: Haulinss moderate.
Light wire inquiry. demand slow,
market dull. Carloads and in mixed
cart FOB usual terms, bulk Per ton
round type s50G55; crates $2.T5G
800. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB cash track. bulk per ton cash
track around $50; crates S2.75G2.s5.
Wsgonloads cash to growers, bulk per
ton ss5650.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate, market about steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms,
bushel baskets Sldi.l0; crates $3.50
@1.75. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB cash track very few sales. bush
el baskets e5cGsl; crates $3.50
l.5o.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and in mixed
csrs FOB usual terms, bushel bask-
cts si.3511.50; crates s1.75G2.o0;
cash track, bushel baskets Si.25G
40, crates around SITS.
Spinach: Hauiings moderate.
Light wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate, market about steady. Carloads
FOB usual terms, bushel baskets
Savoy few sales 60G65c, in mixed
cars 75Gs5c; cash track. In mixed
Ears bushel baskets 65475c.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Saturday
and Sunday:
Cabbage: Houston 4; st. Louis
Is; Chicago s; Shreveport s; ] each
Providence, Milwaukee. Texarksna,
Fl. Worth, FL Paso, Memphis, CAL
gary. Atlanta.
Grapefruit; Houston s.: TT. Worth
Dallas; ! each Beaumont, Tulsa, VA
t~erloo, FL Paso. Chicago, Mankato,
Cedar Rapids, Minneapolis, Milwau-
kee, Dubuque. Beets: New York
8; / each Baltimore, St. Louis. Phil
adelphis. Carrots: st. Louis o;
Philadelphia 4; Houston 2; / each
Chicago. Lincoln, New York, Cleve-
land. Memphis. Beets and Carrots:
Houston 8: / each Boston, st. Louis,
New Haven, Washington, Minneapo-
lis. New York. Hartford, Cleveland.
Potatoes: ! each Pittsburgh. Chi
csgo, Cleveland. Turnips: Chicago /.
Spinach: st. Louis Is; ! each Fl.
Worth. Washington, Kansas City.
Denver. Pittsburgh. Evansville, Phil
sdelphis. New York, Indiana. Mixed
fruit: Houston 2. Lettuce: Jersey
City /. Mixed Vegetables: st. Louis
"a; Houston 90: New York II; Chi
cago q; 2 each Toronto, Philadelphia,
Memphis, Des Moines; l each Shreve-
port, Omaha, I'll Paso. Marshall,
Beaumont, TT. Smith, Little Rock.
Monroe, M~uskoSee, Nashville. Brad
ford, Hartford. Wichita Falls, ANA
rillo. Pine Bluff, Oklahoma City,
Shawnee, Dupo. Wichita, Kansas
City, Davenport, Indianapolis, Lex
ington, Haselton.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Saturday and Sun
day:
Cabbage New York lo6 Wiscon-
sin so; Florida 6; Texas 64-total
U. s. 233 cars.
Carrots: Virginis /: cailfornia
So; Texas 2--totsl U. S. "a cars.
Mixed Citrus: Florida {; Texas q
total u. S. s cars.
Grapefruit: Texas q; Florida SO
total U. 5. ia cars.
Spinach: California 2: Texas "a;
Virginia l2-total u. s. ia cars.
Mixed Vegetables: Florida IL; Call
ifornia rs; Louisiana o; Texas lss;
Virginia l3-totsl U. s., 222 cars.
Lower Rio Grsnde Valley move
ment reported Sunday and Monday,
Jan. 1914:
Mixed vegetables IS, beets s, car
rots IL, beets and carrots &, cabbage
80, potatoes /, spinach 4, mixed cit
rus 2, grapefruit 10. n 1, let
tnce ], total lS9 cars. Freight move
ment 10 date this season: Fruit 600.
vegetables 1923, total 1923 cars; to
same date last season: Fruit SIS.
vegetables 2176. total 1851 cars.
Additional FOB information report
ed Saturday, Jan. IL:
Cabbage: Rochester. N. Y. and
nearby points: Min. 10 deg. cloudy.
Demand limited, market steady. Car
loads FOB usual terms, bulk Der ton
Danish type small to medium ss4n
20. sacked per ton s4sG5o, mostly
S4s. few lower.
Carrots; Rochester. ". Y. and
nearby points: Demand moderate.
market firm. Carloads FOB usual
terms, sacked per 100 lbs, mostly
$50, few $3.50, bushel baskets
washed. cut Sl.75GI.s5.
Spinach: Laredo, Texas, warm.
clear. Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand light. market
weak. Bushel baskets Savoy, car
loads FOB usual terms. soc; cash
track 45G5oe.
Crystal City. Texas. Warm. clear.
Hauiings moderate. Moderate wire
inquiry, demand slow. market slight
ly weaker. Bushei baskets Savoy.
carloads FOB usual terms, few sales
60c; cash track 45l50c.
This mornings sales TO jobbers un-
less other wise stated:
Cabbage: Chicago: Showing. 2 de-
grees- Arrived 5 California. 2 Flor
ida, 4 Louisiana, 8 New York, 10 Tex
as, 3 Wisconsin, on track including
broken IS cars. Supplies moderate.
demand and trading slow, market
slightly stronger on Wisconsin. firm
en- Texas stock. Few sales account Of
weather. Wisconsin Danish type
sacked per crt S3.25-3.50. Texas
pointed type crates s4.75-5.0o. light.
leafy ~S4-25-4-50. Texas Savoy 60-lb
crates $500; red $500. Philadelphia:
showing, 10 degrees. Arrived rs New
York; 3 South Carolina. ! Virginia,
on track including broken 81 cars.
New SUPPLIES light. demand moderat,
market firm Florida pointed type