Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-31
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VEGETABLE BULLETIN NO. II

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Lower Rio Grande points: Cool
partly cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry. demand good,
market stronger. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms : round
type bulk per ton $3.50; crates
$4.50l4-90; lettuce crates s3.75-400.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track = round type bulk per
ton $3.50; crates s~4.00-475: let
tuce crates ~S3.4o-3.65. Truckloads
cash to growers : bulk per ton $50
rs, mostly SIS.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and mixed
cars FOB usual terms = crates S1.35
TO $50; bushels few $0.80-l.00 Car
loads and ~ mixed cars FOB cash
track : crates Sl25-1.50.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand moderate.
market steady. Carloads and in
Sl.40-1.60: bushels S0.90-l.l0. Car
mixed cars FOB usual terms crates
loads and in mixed cars FOB cash
track : crates Sl.25-l.50.
Snap Beans: HaulingS fairly heavy
Good wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate, market about steady. Carloads
and in mixed car FOB usual terms
green stringless bushel hampers,
s400-4.25: cash track $3.75-400,
mostly S3.75. Truckloads cash TO
growers = bushel hampers green
stringlcss S300-3.50, <loStly $3.50
Potatoes: Haulings light Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms : 100
ID. sacks Bliss Triumphs US No. Is
mostly $500, few S4.25; cash track
mostly $3.75, few $500. Truckloads
cash to growers : sacked per cwt.
mostly $3.50, few S3.5. Fifty pound
sacks 10c cwt. extra.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Saturday
and Sunday.
Cabbage: 30 Houston; 80 ST. Louis
II Chicago; 5 Philadelphia; 4 each
Kansas City, Shreveport, Indianap-
oils; 2 each Memphis. New York
City; ! each South Bend. Minneap-
v8blis, Oklahoma City. Texarkana.
Montgomery, Pittsburgh. Carrots:
5 st. Louis: 3 Houston, Chicago: l
each New York. Montreal, Philadel-
phia, Winnipeg. Potatoes: ? Chi
cago; l each Houston, Oklahoma
City, st. Louis. Birmingham, San
Francisco Beets: 2 each st. Louis.
New York; / each Chicago. Glass
bcro, Boston, Jersey City. Beets
and Carrots: / Kansas City. Tur-
nips: l Houston. Onions. ! each
Fort Worth. S~weetwater. Snap
Beans: 2 Atlanta; ! Birmingham.
Parsley: ] Boston. Mixed vegeta-
bles: 81 Houston: II ST. Louis: ;
each Dallas, Birmingham; ? each
hreveport, Amarillo, Memphis. New
York City. Boston. Joplin, Cincin-
natl; ) Chicago; l each FL Paso.
Palestine, Sweetwater, Abilene, Al
buquerque, Okmulgee, Ponca City,
Beaumont, Oklahoma City. Wichita,
Cleveland. Little Rock, Evansville,
Omaha, Stanton. G~reenville. Nash
vile, New Haven. Hazelton, Buffalo,
Bangor, Waco, La Fayette, Minnie
apolis. Indianapolis.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Sunday and Monday
mornings:
Mixed vegetables rs. cabbage 80.
bce.s 5, heets ana carrots Q, p0ta-
tees o, carrots IA, parsley !, onions
/, beans 4, escarOl ?. total 207 cars.
Freight movements To date this sea-
son : Fruit 1919. vegetables lll2l, to-
tai 1900; to same day last season
Fruit 1911. vegetables 1890, total
1901 cars. Beans express IS st.
Louis; , each Kansas City, Chicago.
| each Pittsburgh, Memphis, Hous-
ton. Philadelphia. Ft. Worth. Mix
Cd vegetables ! TO Pittsburgh.
Carlot shipments OF entire United
States reported Saturday and Sun
day:
includes cars billed from midnight
to midnight.
Cabbage: California 3. Florida
-. South Carolina !, Texas los, to-
tai US i3i cars.
Carrots: California; 50, Colorado
~ 4NGA 4OAh 49, AAA@1 4of A@A1A 49,
CD cars.
Potatoes: Colorado 90, Florida 81,
Idaho 10. Maine 391, Michigan IL,
Minnesota 81. Texas 8, Wisconsin
so, total US 1914 cars.
snap Beans: Florida IA, Texas Is.
total US 80 cars.
Spinach: California ]. Texas -,
Virginia 5. total US % cars.
Mixed Vegetables: Texas lot, Flor
ida 81. Louisiana 4. others 81, total
US 1879 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Saturday, March 20.
Spinach: san Antonio and south
Texas points: Cool. cloudy. Haul
inQs light. Light wire inquiry, de-
sncud light but improving. market
y 8eady. firmer undertone. Bushel
baskets Savoy = carloads FOB cash
track mostly 35c; usual terms 40
soc, mostly 45c. Many shipments
rolled unsold.
snap Beans. Pompano Section,
Fla, Cool, showers. HaulingS light
Demand good. market slightly
stronger. Wagonloads cash to grow
ers : bushel hampers Bountifuls
s5.o0-5.50, few higher. fair s400-4.50
Black Valentines few S400-450