Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11

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States Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics and the San Antonio, Texas,
hCam6er of Commerce cooperating.
F. o. 3. shipping point informa-
ton reported Wednesday, April 10:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Warm, partly cloudy. Cabbage:
Haulings light. Moderate wire in
quiry, demand moderate, market
dull. Carloads and in mixed cars
+. o. b. usual terms-bulk per ton
round type mostly $9.00@10.0O,
crates 90c6$1.o0. Carloads and in
mixed cars f. o. b. cash track, bulk
per ton round type $8.00@9.00;
crates mostly 90c. Wagonloads cash
to growers-bulk per ton, mostly
$500.
Carrots: Haulings light. Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market about steady. Carloads and
Bushel baskets S .90@1.00; crates
$1.35@1.40, few higher. Carloads
and in mixed cars f. o. b. cash track
-bushel baskets mostly 90c; crates
mostly S1.30.
Beets: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market about steady. Carloads and
in mixed cars f. O. b. usual terms
bushel baskets around 90c; crates
$1.30@1.40. Carloads and in mixed
cars f. o. b.. cash track-bushel bas-
kets 80@90c; crates $1.15@1.25.
Potatoes: Haulings light. Good
uyira irn,,irxy Ior,o~[ ro@loro+a
market firm. Carloads and in mixed
cars f. o. b.. usual terms-very few
sales-100-lb. sacks Bliss Triumphs
U. S. No. Is $2.75; cash track most
ly $3.50, 50-lb. sacks 10c higher.
Wagonloads cash to growers $500
@2.25 cwt.
String beans: Haulings light.
Good wire inquiry. demand good,
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed Jars f. o. b. usual terms
bushel hampers tSringless mostly
s2.25; oval hampers 10c higher; cash
track $500. Wagonloads cash to
growers-mostly SITS.
Onions: Raymondville and nearby
points: Practically no haulings.
Light wire inquiry, demand good.
Too few sales to establish market.
Corpus Christi Robstown section:
| Warm. partly coludy. Cabbage: No
haulingS account wet grounds. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate, too few sales to establish mar
ket.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported WedneS-
day, April 10: Cabbage: ST. Louis
s; Houston 5; l each Tacoma, Tex
arkana, Suluth, Seattle, Winnipeg,
Fl. Worth, Dallas, Vancouver, Ok
lahoma City. Beets and carrots:
Shreveport q; ! each Hamilton,
Brooklyn. Carrots: st. Louis 8;
New York 2; / each Houston, Cam
den, Portland. Onions: New York
3; st. Louis 2; l each Fort Worth.
Pittsburgh. Beets: st. Louis 8; l
each Newark, Boston. Potatoes:
Los Angeles 2; ! each Beaumont,
Kansas City, st. Joseph, Portland,
Atlanta, Shreveport. Mixed vege-
tables: IL each st. Louis Houston;
Fort Worth 4; New York 8; FL Paso
2: l each Hamilton, Lincoln, Sioux
City, Dallas, Lubbock San Angelo,
Amarillo, Marshall, Beaumont,
Shreveport, Monroe, Memphis,
Wichita, Hutchinson, Kansas City,
Chicago, Denver, Hastings, Nash
vile, Lexington, Clarksburg, Pitts
burgh, New Haven, st. Jo., VT,
Springfield. String beans: Hous-
ton, Detroit, Louisville l each, st.
Louis l each, st. Louis, Los Angeles.
Lower Rio Grande valley move
April II: Mixed vegetables "a;
beets 8; carrots II; beets and car
rots 90; cabbage II; onions z; po-
tatoes 8; string beans g., freight, 2
express, total 100 cars. Freight
movement to date this season. Fruit
1.72o, vegetables 1887, total 1886
cars. To same day alst season
Fruit LAS, vegetables 1924, total
14,47O cars.
Carlot shipments of entire United
States reported Wednesday, April
10: Potatoes: Colorado 20; Florida
1874; Idaho 80; Maine 152; Michigan
Is; Minnesota 81; Texas 8; Wis
consin 20; total U. S. 81 cars. String
beans: Florida 81; TeXac 8 freight
2 express, total u. S. Go cars. Cab
bage: Alabama IS. South Carolina
AZ; Texas 80; total U. S. ITO cars.
Carrots: Texas IL; others IL; total
u. S. % cars. Mixed vegetables:
Louisiana Il; Texas 81; total U. s.
IA cars. Onions: Texas 104;
others 4; total U. S. lob cars.
Additional f. 0. b. shipping point
information reported Wednesday,
April 10. Canal Point, Florida,
warm, partly cloudy: String beans:
Haulings heavy, except stringless
light. moderate wire inquiry de-
mand moderate, market steady. Car
loads f. o. b. cash track-7-8 bushel
hampers stringlesS and red valen-
tines mostly $500; black valentines
s1.5O@1.75. Wagonloads cash to
growers-7-8 bushel hampers boun-
tifuls S1.25@1.50; limas $3.50@3.75.
Laredo, Texas. Hot, partly cloudy.
Onions: Haulings moderate to
heavy. Demand moderate, market
about steady. Carloads f. o. b. usual
terms+few sales crates Yellow Ber-
mudas mixed No. Is and Is $1.50@
100: Crystal Wax $1.90@2.00. Car
loads t. o. b. cash track-crates yell
low Bermudas mixed No. Is ana rs
81. 35@1.40, mostly $1.35; Crystal y.
S. No. Is $1.50@1.75. !.
Reports by radio from important
markets, this mornings sales 10
iobbers, unless otherwise stated:
Cabbage: Chicago: Raining, 45
degrees, arrived 1 Texas, on track
rs cars. Supplies liberal, demand
and trading moderat, market
stronger. Prices advancing. Texas
crates round type $2.5-2.50, few
fancy high as $2.75, some ordinary