Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Truck
Markets
VEGETABLE BULLETIN No. g.

VEGETABLE BULLETIN No. GO
T. Q. 3. shipping point informa-
ton reported Wednesday, March 10:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulsngs light. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand improv-
ing, market firm. Growers holding
higher prices, very few sales.
CHa0ads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-round type bulk per
ton $500; crates few $500; let
tuce crates ~s4.00-4.25. Truckloads
cash TO growers-bulk per ton, wide
range in prices, few sales-mostly
5000.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand slow.
market about steady. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates $1.40-1.50 few lower; bushels
few s0.9U-1.O0. Carloads and in mix
ed cars FOB cash track crates
around SIPS.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry. demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms-crates
~Sl.50-1.65: bushels sl.25-1.35. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB cash
track-crates si.35-1.40.
Primary destinations OF Lower
Valley movement reported Wednes-
day. March 10:
Cabbage: 6 each Houston. Chi
cago; 2 each st. Louis, Pittsburgh;
l Atlanta.
Carrots: 4 each st. Louis, Chi
cago; 3 Boston: ? Pittsburgh; l
each Winnipeg. Houston, New York,
Hoboken.
Beets: 4 each Chicago, New York;
! each st. Louis. Jersey City.
Spinach: IL St. Louis; 3 Hous-
ton: 2 each Chicago. Pittsburgh:
! each Montreal, #. Worth, Shreve-
port, Boston.
Turnlps: l each Chicago. Hous-
ton. Birmingham.
Turnip greens: l ST. Louis.
Radishes: l Chicago.
Parsley: 2 New York. AnieSe: /
New York.
Mixed vegetables: 9 each Hous-
ton, st. LOUIS: 3 each Memphis.
Jersey City, New York; 2 each TT.
Worth, Beaumont, Chicago. FL Paso:
I each Waco. Cisco. Farwell, Tex
as, Wichita Falls. Tulsa. Monroe,
Omaha, Boston. Grand Rapids,
Minneapolis, Hartford. Syracuse.
Toronto, Buffalo. Shreveport.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Thursday morning.
March 20:
Mixed vegetables %, cabbage "a,
carrots Il. beets Il, beets and car
rots 7. spinach Is, turnips ], total
+Q2 cars. Freight movement to
&etc this season-Fruit 1919, Vege-
tables $685.. total 1854; TO same
day last season-Fruit 1869. Vege-
tables 1913. total 1902 cars.
Carlot shipments OF entire United
States reported Wednesday. March
l9. includes cars billed from mid
night TO midnight.
Cabbage: California 3. Florida ~.
New York J. Texas p, total U. S
Carrots: California %, New York
S, Texas Is. total u. s. 50 cars.
Snap beans: Florida 4 freight,
3 express, total u cars.
Spinach: California 4. Texas 207,
Virginia 8. Washington !, total U.
$. 2i8 cars.
Grapefruit: Arizona 2. California
;, Florida 1913. total U. S. 1873 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Louisiana /,
Florida 10. Texas SIS. others 40. to-
tai u. $. 119 cars
Additional FOB information re
ported Wednesday. March 10:
San Antonio. Texas CSouth Tex
as Points:
Spinach: Haulings very heavy.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand
moderate, market unsettled and
weaker. Bushel baskets Savoy
carloads FOB cash track 60-70c.
late sales mostly soc: usual terms
65-75c. few carly sales higher. most
late sales Csc.
Brawley. Calf Imperial Valley:
Carrots: Good wire inquiry. de-
mand good, market firm. Carloads
SUMMARY