Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-25
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VEGETABLE BULLETIN No. SC

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+. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Monday, March "a:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market slightly weaker. Carloads
and In mixed "a FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton s60-70;
crates S3.75-3.90; lettuce crates
s3.00-3.25. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash BACKGROUND type
ck per ton $60-65; crates $40
3'65; lettuce crates $2.85-3.O0. Truck
loads cash TO growers-bulk per
ton 5000. mostly $50.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Good
wire inquiry, demand good. market
firm. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms-crates 81 .35-l SIS:
bushels few S0.90-1.10. Carloads and
in mixed car cash track-crates
$l.30-1.40.
BeetS: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand mod
crate, market about steady. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms-crates sl.40-1.60; bushels
S1.00-1.l5. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track-crateS Sl.25-
lao.
Snap beans: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand
/ moderate, market slightly weaker.
Carloads and in mixed II FOB
4 usual termS--green stringless bushei
hampers s4O0-4.50, mostly s425:
! cash track S3.75-4.O0. Wagonloads
} cash 10 growers-bushel hampers
/ green string.eSs ~S3.00-3.50.
Potatoes: Haulings light. Ship
\ ments light. Moderate wire inquiry.
] demand moderate, market steady.
4 Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-100 10. sacks Bliss
Triumphs Us No. Is mostly $500.
few higher; cash track mostly S3.75,
few higher. Truckloads cash 10
II yrowers-sacked per cwt. mostly
II $3.50, few higher. Fifty pound
R sacks l0c CIV. extra.
K Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Monday,
III March "a:
y Cabbage: II st. Louis: 5 Shreve-
u port; 3 Houston; ? Pittsburgh; l
each Memphis. Chicago. Omaha,
Bluefield, Indianapolis. Montgomery.
II Carrots: 2 each Chicago, Pitts
burgh: ! New York. BsetS: I each
4 Chicago. Baltimore. ST. Louis. New
York. Beets and carrots: l Hoboken.
Turnip greens: l Memphis. Anise:
1 ] New York. Parsley: l New York.
y Mixed vegetables. 5 st. Louis: 2
each Houston. Kansas City: / each
i Omaha. Sweetwater. Jersey City.
Coffeyville. Snap beans: | Chicago
texpressl.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Tuesday morning,
March IS.
Mixed vegetables 30. cabbage 81,
h1kts 10. carrots 20. beets and car
r0fS 10. spinach l. potatoes ?. total
lO4 cars. Freight movement to date
this season-Frult 1919, Vegetables
1039l. total -4370; 10 same day
last season-Fruit 1895. Vegetables
1902. total 1897 cars. Beans: l exp.
IL Carlot shipments Of entire United
Estates reported Monday. March "a:
| #IncIudes cars billed from midnigh.
n 10 midnight):
I'M Cabbage: California !, Florida II.
lkSouth Carolina 5. Texas 10, total
S. 40 cars Potatoes: Fla. s. Colo.
&l32, Ida. SO. Me. POS. MINI. 81. Tex.
H2. total u. S. 723 cars. Snap beans:
Florida | express. Texas / express,
total u. S. 2 cars.
Grapefruit. Arizona >. California
6, Florida 80. total U. S. SO cars.
Spinach: Texas 103. Virginia 8,
Washington I. total u. s. liz cars.
Al Carrots: California IS. Indiana !,
Il New Lork s Texas 2. total U. S.
IS cars.
Il Mixed vegetables: Florida 9. LOU
isiana I. Texas II. others Il. total
n u. S. 6S cars.
III Additional FOB information re-
III ported Monday. March "a:
II San Antonio, Texas (South Tex
If as Points:
HI Spinach. Haulinss heavy. Light
wire inquiry, demand light, market
unsettled. weak undertone. Bushel
N baskets SAVOY. very few sales-car-
HI loads FOB cash track ~371-2-40c:
usual terms mostly 45c. Most ship
ments rolled unsold.
MI Pompano Section. Fla:
III Snap beans. Haulings very light.
Demand moderate. market slightly
I weaker. Wag0nloads cash to growers
-bushel hampers Bountifuls $500
HI $50. few best $500. some fair S4.OO-
ATS, poorer low as $3.50; Black
Valentines mostly ordinary $500
III 400. few best $3.50.
HI Rrawlev. Calf. Imperial Valley :
Carrots: Moderate wire inquiry.
Demand moderate. market about
steady. Carloads FOB cash track
crates mostly around slT5.
III Hastings. Fla.
Ill Potatoes: Haulings very light &C
scount Of vet fields. Too few sales
Ito establish market.
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