Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-15
Truck
Markets
via Naval Radio Ssaticn

+. 0. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Friday. Feb. Il:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Warm. partly cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry. demand active,
market firm. Carloads and in mix
ed ca-s FOB usual terms-round
type bulk per ton mostly $50, few
lower; crates around $500; lettuce
crates S2.50-2T5. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB cash BACKGROUND
type bulk per ton S43-45; crates
s2.50-2.T5: lettuce crates S235- 80.
Truckloads cash TO growers-bulk
per ton mostly $40. few higher.
Carrots: Haulings moderate.
Light wire inquiry. demand slow.
market dull. Carloads and in mix
ed cars FOB usual terms-crates
sl35-l.50: bushels 90-l.00. In mix
ed cars FOB cash track-crates few
sales around SIPS; bushels 1890.
Beets: Haulings moderate; mod
crate wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate, market steady. Carloads ana
in mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates S2.0O-2.50 bushels Sl.50-1.75.
In mixed ears FOB cash track
crates slT5-2.00, few higher; bush
els ~Sl.25-i.50.
Primary destinations OF Lower
Valley movement reported Friday,
Feb. IA:
Cabbage: % Houston; 8 St.
Louis: 6 Chicago; 3 Philadelphia
2 each Pittsburg. Memphis; ! each
Helena. Ark. Uew Orleans.
Carrots: 2 Houston; ! each 81.
Louis. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
New York. Boston, Washington, At
lanta.
Lettuce: 1 Jersey City. Parsley:
l st. Louis. Turnips: ! Houston.
Mustard Greens: i Houston.
Beets: 5 New York; each Ct.
Louis, Chicago.
Beets and carrots: l each Hou5-
ton. st. Louis. New York.
Mixed vegetables: % Houston; 4
each st. Louis. Memphis; Q each
Texarkana. Birmingham: l each
Shreveport. Cisco. Altus. La Fay
cite. Little Rock. Chicago. Mime
apclis. Greenville. s. c.. Cleveland.
Hattiesburg. Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Hazelton, New York, Winni-
peg.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Saturday morning,
Feb. Is:
Grapefruit 8. vegetables AZ. cab
bage 60, carrots Is. beets 8. dande-
lion 2. turnips 2. parsley /. mus
tard greens /. lettuce i. total 144
cars. Freight movement TO date
this season-Fruit 1910. Vegetables
1904. total 1864: to same day last
season-Fruit 1905. Vegetables 1894.
total $3.50 cars.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Friday. Feb. IL:
includes airs billed from midnight
TO midnight)
Cabbage: California 6, Florida 10.
New York %, Texas 10, total u. $.
1l8 cars.
Carrots: California 20, New York
z, Texas 10. total y. S. 46 cars
Spinach: California 2, Texas As,
total u. s. 48 cars.
Grapefruit: Arizona 2. California
3. Florida %, Texas 5. total U. S.
l03 cars.
Mixed vegetables. Texas So. 9TH
ers 50. total u. 8 1l6 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Friday. Feb. ID:
Rochester. N. Y. western New
York Points:
Cabbage: Good wire inquiry. de-
mand moderate. market strong.
Carloads FOB usual terms-Danish
type bulk per ton few sales $60-65;
90 and 100 ID. sacks S65-l0.
Carrots: Light wire inquiry. de-
mand slow. market dull. Carloads
FOB usual terms-l00 IL. sacks
cut very few sales $3.50.
Sanford. Fla. winter Garden
District:
Cabbage: Not received. DAILY
carlot movement Florida cabbage
next two weeks expected to aver
age Is cars o. less. Present high
prices may estimulate heavier cut
tings this week but will react next.
Cabbage acreage scattered and
light.
San Antonio, Texas CSouth Tex
as Points:
Spinach: Haulings light. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand slow,
market slightly weaker. somewhat
unsettled. Bushel baskets Savoy
carloads FOB cash truck Assoc,
few low as ~ lie; usual terms So