Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-21

Department or Agriculture, United
States Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies and the San Antonio. Texas,
hCGm6er Of Commerce cooperating.
F. 0. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Wednesday, March 20:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Warm, cloudy: Cabbage: Haul
ings heavy. Light wire inquiry, de-
mand slow, market dull. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
bulk per ton round type ~$15-17.50,
mostly $15-16: crates ~$1.10-1.25.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track, very few sales, bulk per
ton round type mostly around
$500; crates $1.05-1.15. Wagon
loads cash to growers bulk per tor,
mostly $1,000, few $500. Carrots:
Haulings moderate. Light wire in
quiry, demand slow, market dull.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms, bushel baskets $3.50
100; crates $1.25-1.40, fancy, long
$3.50. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB cash track, bushel baskets 30
90c; crates $1.25-1.35. Beets: Haul
ingS moderate. Light wire inquiry.
demand slow, market dull. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms, bushel baskets 10000; crates
mostly $1.25-1.40 Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB cash track, bushel
baskets 70-80c; crates $1.10-1.25. Po-
tatoes: HaulingS increasing. Light
wire inquiry, demand limited, mar
ket about steady. In mixed cars
FOB usual terms, 100-lb sacks Bliss
Triumphs U. S. No. Is, few sales
mostly $500; cash track S3.75.
Onions: Raymondville, and nearby
points: Hau1ings light account wet
grounds. Light wire inquiry. de-
mand moderate, market about
steady. In mixed cars FOB cash
track, crates Yellow Bermuda COM
mercial pack $2.5O-2.75; usual terms,
very few sales %$3.O0-3.25. Corpus
Christi Robstown Section: Warm,
cloudy: Cabbage: Haulings light.
Light wire inquiry, demand slow,
market dull. Carloads and III mixed
cars FOB usual terms, round and
flat types bulk per ton mostly
around $3.50; crates mostly S1.25.
WagonlOadS cash to growers, bulk
per ton mostly $1,000.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported WeGnes-
day, March 20: Cabbage: st. Louis
%; Houston 81; Shreveport II; New
York 5: Memphis 4; 8 each Kansas
City. Chicago, Dallas; 2 each New
London Wise, Pittsburgh; l each
Birmingham, Chattanooga, VAN
couver, Fort Worth. Brooklyn, Mon
treal, Hazelton, Winnipeg, Min
neapolis, Hickory, Greenville, Cam
den, New Haven, Calgary, Sudbury.
North Bay Ont, Toronto. Mixed
Vegetables: St. Louis. Houston z
each: New York 81; Shreveport !;
2 each Waterloo, Denver; l each
San Antonio, Fort Worth. Dallas,
Sioux City, Hamilton. Hazelton,
Marshall. Kansas City, Cedar
Rapids. Detroit. st. Cloud, Sault
Ste. Marie, Havre, Louisville. Wash
ington. Fitchburg. WilliamspOrr, Mt.
Carmel, Baltimore. Toronto. North
Bay Mt. Edmondton Alta. TraDe-
fruit: Fort Worth 8; 1 each San
Antonio, Indianapolis. FL Paso,
Tulsa. Dallas. Carrots: st. Louis
g: BROOKLYN 5; New York a; each
Philadelphia. Boston, Baltimore.
mons: St.LouiS /. Beets: New
York 8; ? each st. Louis, Balti-
more; l each Chicago, Philadelphia.
Parsley: New York 2: st. Louis I.
Potatoes: Houston 4; 1 each Fort
Worth. Dallas. Seattle, Terre Haute,
st. Louis, Shreveport. Anise: New
York /. Mixed Citrus: CORTLAND
N. Y. 1.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Thursday mornuo,
March d: Mixed Vegetables 50;
Beets 9; Carrots %: Beets and Car
! rots Is: Cabbage 1871: Onions /; PO-
tatoes IL: Dandelion /: Mixed Cit
rus /: Anise 1: Grapefruit 9: total
255 cars. Freight movement to date
this season. Fruit 1869. Vegetables
11.133 cars. total 12702 cars: to same
dav last season. Fruit las. Vege-
tables 11.141 cars. total 12.287 cars.
Reports by telegraph from i'm
portant markets, this MORNINGS
sales to jobbers, unless otherwise
stated:
Philadelphia: Clear. IS degrees:
Cabbage: Arrived II Florida. 4
Texas, l Virginia, on track 80 cars.
New supplies fairly liberal, demand
slow. market weaker. Texas crates
round type S2.75, few So. Carrots:
Arrived 9 Texas. on track Is cars.
Supplies moderate. demand mod
crate. market about steady. Texas
crates $2.50-2.75. few low as 1925
Beets: Arrived 3 Texas, on track 9
cars. Supplies liberal, demand slow,
market dull. Texas crates $500