Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-26
Truck
Markets
Via Naval Radio Station
VEGETABLE BULLETIN No. 6,


T. O. 3. shipping point intorma-
ton reported Tuesday. March IS:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: HaulIngs moderate.
Good wire inquiry. demand active,
market firm. Carloads and in mix
ed cars FOB usual terms-round
} type bulk per ton $70-T5; crates
k3-9o-4.l5; lettuce crates S3.25-3.40.
Carloads ami in mixed cars FOB
cash track-round type bulk per
ton 5000: crates S350-3.75. lettuce
crates s285-300. TTuckloads cash
70 growers-bulk per ton 5000.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand mod
crate. market steady. Carloads and
IN mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates $l35-l.55; bushels few $780,
100. Carloads and III mixed cars
FOB cash ~track-crates S1.25-1.40.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand mod
crate. market about steady. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms crates $l.40-l6 so; bushels
$0.90-ll0. Carloads and In mixed
cars FOB cash track-crates Sl.25-
1.40.
Snap beans: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry, demand good, market
firm. Carloads ana in mixed cars
FOB usual tsrms-green stringless
bushel hampers s4O0-4.50; cash
track S~3.75-425. Truckloads cash
10 growers-0ushel hampers green
Stringless $~3.o0-3.75, mostly $3.50.
Potatoes: Haulings light Ship
n1ents light. Moderate wire inquiry,
demand moderate, market steady.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-l00 10. sacks Bliss
Triunphs Us NO. is mostly $500.
few higher; cash track mostly
$3.75, few higher. Truckloads cash
TO growers-sscked for cwt.. mostly
$3.50. few higher. Fifty pound sacks
10c cWt. extra,
Primary destinations OF Lower
Valley movement reported Tuesday,
March Is:
Cabbage: il s.. Louis; 4 each
Houston, Shreveport; , Jersey City.
/ each Texarkan5. Little Rock,
Memphis, Indianapolis, Philadel-
phia. Hamilton. Montreal. New
York. Carrots: 4 Chicago; ? each
S.. Louis, Boston; ! each Tulsa,
Minneapolis, Hartford, Pittsburgh,
Baltimore. New York, Philadelphia.
Beets: 4 ST. Louis; ? each New York,
Chicago; ! each Baltimore, Hous-
ton. Potatoes: / each Kansas City,
st. Louis. Radishes. 8. ST. Louis;
] Kansas City. BeetS and carrots:
/ Chicago. Spinach ! each Houston,
Fl. Worth. Mixed vegetables: IL
Houston; 4 each TT. Worth, St.
Louis, New York; 3 Pittsburgh; 2
each Kansas City. Fl Paso, Mem
phis, Jersey City; / each Texarkana
Oklahoma City. Omaha, Monroe,
Rayville. Little Rock, Detroit. Den
yer. Johnston City, Birmingham,
Waterbury, New Haven, Buffalo.
Boston. Winnipeg.
Lower Rio Grsnde Valley move
ment reported Wednesday morning.
March 26:
Mixed vegetables 45, cabbage 40,
carrots 90, bssts is, bsets and
carrots 9, potatoes 3. den1elion !.
escarol !, parsley ?. turnips /. total
15S cars, Freight movement TO date
this season-Fruit 1919, Vegetables
I0549, total l4528; to same day
last season-FTlit 1910, Vegetables
1220i, total 1881 cars Beans ex-
press ) airs
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Tuesday. March rs:
uncludes cars billed from midnight
to midnight):
Cabbage: California ,. Florida
26, South Carolina 5. Texas 81, total
u. S. 20 cars.
Carrots. California 81. Colorado
4, New York u. Texas %, total U.
s. 70 cars.
Snap beans: Florida 7, Texas 4,
total U. S. II cars.
Spinach: Texas e5, Virginia II,
total U. S. LOG cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas rs, Lou
islana !. Florida 9, others IS, total
u. S. iSI cars
Potatoes. Florida II. Maine 5is.
Michigan IL. Wisconsin 81. Min
nesota l24, Colorado lis, total U.
s. $50 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Tuesday. March Is:
san Antonio, Texas CSouth Tex
as Points:
Spinach: Haulings heavy. Light
wire inquiry. demand light. market
unsettled and weak Bushel baskets
Savoy. very few sales-carloads FOB
cash track 1851 lie; usual terms
40-45c. Mos. shipments rolled IN
sold.
Pompano Section. Fla:
Snap beans: Practically no haul