Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-06
Truck
Markets

FOB shipping point information
reported Monday, May 5:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Warm. cloudy.
Cabbage. Haulings light. Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand limited,
market dull. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB usual terms-round type
bulk per ton mostly around $4,000:
lettuce crates S200-2.25. Truckloads
cash TO growers-bulk per ton S25-
IS.
Carrots: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry. demand moderate,
market steady. CARLOADS and in
mixed cars FOB usual termS-crates
Sl.35-l60' few best higher; cash
track Sl.25-l35. few higher.
Bets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market about steady. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates 81 35-l.65.
Snap beans: H~aulings light. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand moder-
ate, market steady Tor good stock.
III mixed cars FOB usual terms
buShel hampers green stringleSs
Sl.75-2.00; cash track mostly Sl.75.
Truckloads cash to growers-S1.00-
$50 per bushel. best mostly s1.25-
l.50.
Potatoes: Haplings light. Light
wire inquiry, demand slow. market
weak. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms-100 ID. sacks Bliss
Triumphs Us No. Is few ~$2.T5-300;
cash track mostly around $3.50. so
ID. sacks i0c cwt extra. Truckloads
cash to growers-s2O0-225.
tomatoes. HaQlings increasing.
Good wire inquiry. demand good,
market steady. Carloads FOB usual
teTms-lugs green wrapped mostly
6X6 and larger $3.50; cash track
$500. Truckloads cash to growers
per ID. mostly &c, few higher.
Green corn: HaulingS moderate.
Moderate Wire inquiry, demand
moderate. market slightly weaker.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-bushel baskets mostly
S225; cash track $500. Top ice
extra Paying growers mostly SIPS
bushel in field.
Primary destinations of Lower
Valley movement reported Monday,
May 5:
Cabbage: 3 Shreveport; 2 each
TT. Worth. st. Louis: / each Tex
arkana, Kansas City. Carrots: 3
Philadelphia: ! each st. Louis. Chi
cago. Hartford, New York, Boston.
Corn: z Houston; 4 each St. Louis.
New York; 2 Chicago; l each Bir-
mingh2n, Pittsburgh. Winston Sa-
lem. Kansas City. Baltimore. Winni-
peg. Onions: 2 Detroit. Beets: 2 each
st. Louis. New York. ! each Chi
cago. Jersey City. Potatoes: 2 each
St. Louis, Chicago; / each Houston,
Birmingham, Denver. Shreveport.
Parsley: / New York. Mixed vege-
tables: 5 Houston; l each FL Paso,
Kansas City. Minneapolis. Denver.
Dodge City. Dallas. Ft. Worth.
Lower Rio Gra-de Valley move
ment reported Tuesday morning.
Nav 6:
Mixed vegetables 10. cabbage 5,
carrots is. keets 4, beets and TAR
rots 4. potatoes 50. onions I. toma-
toes Is, corn %. beans 7. parsley
2, total l62 cars. Freight move
msnt to date this season-Fruit
1919. Vegetables 1923. total 22107:
to same day last season-Fruit 1855.
Vegetables 1919. total 10000 airs.
Corn express ! Chicago.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Monday, May s:
includes cars billed from midnight
to midnight):
Cabbage: Ala. 20. Calf. 6. Fla. !,
La. 6. Miss. is, No. Car. /. SO. Car.
81. Texas 10, total u. s. 127 cars.
Cucumbers: Texas SO. others Is,
total U. S. IS cars.
Snap beans: Texas 2, Calf. ?, Fla.
IS. La. .. total U. S. 30 cars.
Carrots: Texas 3. Calf. 81. N. Y.
total U. S. AZ cars.
Onions: Texas l25, others 4, total
u. $. 100 cars.
Tomatoes: Texas s, Fla &c 9,
other Fla. Ia. total u. s. 33 cars.
Calf 4 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas 10. Fla.
10, La. s, others 81, total U. S. 90
cars.
Potatoes: Ala. 81. Fla. 90. La. 2,
Texas 80 total U. S. old and new
500 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Monday. May ).
Onions: Laredo. Texas: Haulings
moderate. Light wire inquiry. De-
mand very slow. market slightly
weaker. Carloads FOB usual terms
crates Yellow Bermudas U. S. No.
Is 60-65c. US Commercials mostly
75c, Crystal Wax No. Is S1O0. US
Commercials mostly 90c. Carloads
FOB cash track-cratss yellow Ber-
mudas Us No. Is very few sales 75c.
Many rolled uasold.
Potatoes. Hastings, TIA: Haul
ings very light. Better wire inquiry.
demand improving. market steady
for No. Is. slightly weaker for No.
rs. Carloads FOB usual terms
double head barre.s Spauiding Rose
No. Is $500, US NO. Is S225.
Tomatoes: Bradenton : Manatee
Section Fla: Rawlings rather
Demand light. market about
Carloads FOB cash track
70 few sales reported to quote.