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

+. o. 3. shipping point informa-
ton reported Wednesday. March 10:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Hauings light. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand improv-
market firm. Growers holding
- higher prices, very few sales.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-round type bulk per
ton $3.50; 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: H%aulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand slow.
market about steady. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates sl.40-1.50. few lower: bushels
few S0.9O-1 90. Carloads and in mix
ed al FOB cash track crates
around sl.25.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry. demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed car FOB usual terms-crates
Sl.50-l.65: bushels Sl.25-l.35. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB cash
track-crateS sl.35-l.f0.
Primary destinations OF Lower
Valley movement reported Wednes-
day; March 10:
Cabbage: O each Houston. Chi
cago: 2 each st. Louis. Pittsburgh;
! 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:
l each Montreal, TT. Worth. Shreve-
port, Boston.
Turnips: ! each Chicago. Hous-
ton. Birmingham.
Turnip greens: I st. Louis.
Radishes: l Chicago.
Parsley: 2 New York. Aniese: ]
New York.
Mixed vegetables: 9 each Hous-
ton, st. LOUIS: 8 each Memphis,
rIersey City, New York: 2 each TT.
Worth. Beaumont. Chicago. FL Paso;
/ 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 IA. beets ~, beets and car
ns<R Z, spinach Is, turnips l, total
cars. Freight movement to
ate this season-Fruit 1919. Vege-
tables $685.. total 1854; 10 same
day last seaSon-Fruit 1869. Vege-
tables 1913. total 1902 cars.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Wednesday, March
10. includes cars billed from mid
night to midnight
Cabbage: California 3. Florida AZ.
New York !. Texas p, total y. 5
70 cars.
Carrots: California %. New York
S, Texas Is. total U. 5. 30 cars.
Snap beans: Florida 4 freight.
3 express. total II cars.
Spinach: California 4. Texas 207,
Virginia 6. Washington l, total u
S 2lS cars.
Grapefruit: Arizona 2. California
3. Florida 1913. total U. 8 1873 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Louisiana /,
Florida 10. Texas S.. others 43, to-
tai u. s. 1l9 cars.
Additional FOB information re
ported Wednesday. March 10:
San Antonio. Texas (South Tex.
as Points.
Spinach: Haulings very heavy.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand
moderate. market unsettled and
weaker. BuShel baskets Savoy
carloads FOE cash track 60-T0c.
late sales mostly 60c; usual terms
65-75c. few early sales higher, most
late sales Csc.
Brawley, Calf Imperial Valley:
Carrots: Good wire inquiry. de-
mand good. market firm. Carloads