Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-16

| States Bureau OF Agricultural Eco
Monies and the San Antonio, Texas,
hCember Of Commerce cooperating.
F. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Monday, April Is:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points.
Warm, partly cloudy:
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Better wire inquiry, demand good,
market slightly stronger. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
wide range in prices, bulk per ton
round type $12-17, best mostly SIS
II; crates $1.00-T.25, mostly $1.15.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track, bulk per ton round type
SOFA, mostly S12; crates $1.00-1.10.
Wagonolads cash to growers, bulk
per ton $6-8. Carrots: Haulings
moderate. Moderate wire inquiry,
demand moderate, market steady.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms, bushel baskets 90c-
$1.00; crates mostly $1.40, few high
er. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB cash track, bushel baskets 30
90c; crates mostly $1.20-1.30; -ack-
ed per 100-lbS. tops removed around
$1.25. Beets: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand
moderate, market about steady.
Carloads and In mixed cars FOB
usual terms, bushel baskets around
! 90c; crates $1.25-1.30. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB cash track,
bushel baskets 1890; crates $1.15-
lbs. Potatoes: Haulings heavy.
Good wire inquiry, demand active,
market firm. Carloads and in mix
ed cars FOB usual terms, very few
sales, 100-lb. sacks Bliss Triumphs
U. S. No is So; cash track mostly
$2.75; 50-lb. sacks 10c higher. Wa
gonloads cash to growers mostly
$3.50. Green Beans: Haulings mod
crate. Good wire inquiry, demand
!good, market about steady. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms, bushel hampers Stringle5s
mostly $2.25, poorer lower: oval
hampers 10c higher; cash track 81.
Wagonloads cash to growers, most
ly sits.
Onions: Raymondville and near
by points: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market about steady. In mixed cars
FOB usual terms, crates Yellow
Bermudas mixed No. Is and Is few
sales $1.40-1.50; Crystal Wax $1.75-
200. In mixed RI FOB cash
track, crates Yellow BermudaS
mixed No. Is and Is $1.65-1.75.
| Corpus Christi-Robstown section:
Warm, clear: Cabbage: Haulings
moderate. Good wire inquiry, de-
mand good, market slightly strong
er. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms, bulk per ton
round type around SIC; crates
S .20-1.25.
Primary destinations of Lower
Valley movement reported Monday,
April Is: Cabbage: 5 each Hous-
ton, st. Louis; Kansas City 6; Sc
attic 2; 1 each Joplin, Chicago, In
dianapolis, Jackson, Evansville,
New York, Vancouver, Shreveport,
Portland, Johnson City. Onions: /
each ST. Louis, Kansas City. String
Beans: Birmingham 1. Carrots: ST.
Louis 4; New York g.; Philadelphia
%; l each Houston, Camden, New
Haven, Montreal. Beets: Brooklyn
l3; l each Detroit, New York. Po-
ltatoes: 3 each Chicago, ST. Louis;
Birmingham 2; 1 each New Or
leans, San Antonio, Ell Paso, Okla
homa City, Dallas, Seattle, Kansas
City Cincinnati, Shreveport. Mix
ed Vegetables: Houston 8; 2 each
st. Louis, New York; / each ANA
rillo, Memphis, Rockingham, Pitts
burgh, Albany Toronto, Winnipeg,
Clinton Ell Paso Albuquerque, Cairo.
Parsley: New York l.. Beets and
Carrots: Q st. Louis: 1 Brooklyn.
Carload shipments of entire
United States reported Monday,
April Is: Potatoes: Colorado 16;
Idaho 10; Maine 1873; Michigan IS;
Minnesota %; Texas II; Wisconsin
81; Florida unreported; total U. S.
SOB cars. Green Beans: Florida 20;
Texas l; total u. S. 81 cars. Car
riots: California Is; Texas 10; total
U. S. % cars. Cabbage: Louisiana
p; South Carolina So; Texas so; TO-
tai U. S. 1853 cars. Onions: Texas
173; others 8; total y. S. 1872 cars.
Mixed Vegetables: Texas %; 9TH
erS 81; total u. S. SIS cars.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Tuesday morning,
April Is: Mixed vegetables SO;
beets 10; carrots Is; beets and car
rotS ID; cabbage 70; potatoes Sc;
green beans 3; parsley Q; total 1876
cars. Freight movement to date
this season: Fruit 1,729; vegetables
| 15,848; total 17,577 cars. To same
date last season: Fruit f,146; veg
etables 1886; total 1902 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Monday, April Is:
Canal Point, Fla: Warm, rained
during day: String beans: Haul
ings light. Moderate wire inquiry,
demand slow, market weaker. In
mixed cars FOB cash track, 7-8
bushel hampers few sales string
less and Red Valentines $1.85-2.O0.
No carlot sales, most shipments
irolled unsold.
Forth Worth: Clear, IS degrees.
Arrived 3 Colorado, 3 Idaho, di-
verted z, on track 7 cars. New sup
plies light, demand good, market
stronger. Texas 100-lb. sacks Bliss
Triumphs u. s. Is $4.00-4.25. Car
lots and in mixed cars Fort Worth
basis Texas sacked per cwt. Bliss
Triumphs u. S. No. Is few sales
$3.50. Cincinnati: Arrived 2 Ida
no, l Michigan. / Minnesota, 2
Wisconsin, on track "a cars. Sup
plies moderate, demand moderate,
market steady. Texas 100-lb. sacks
PISS TriImphs u. S. No. Is $4.75-
500. Pittsburgh: Arrived 6 Florida,
6 Michigan, 2 Wisconsin, on track
16 new cars. Supplies moderate,
demand slow, market slightly
stronger. Florida double head bar
rels Spaulding Rose U. S.. No. Is
mostly $3.50, G. S. No. Is mostly 81.
Cleveland: Cloudy, SO degrees. Ar