Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-26
Truck
Markets
VEGETABLE BULLETIN No. 81


F. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Tuesday, March Is:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry, demand active.
market firm. Carloads and in mix
ah cars FOB usual terms-round
type bulk per ton S70-75, crates
~s3.90-4.i5. lettuce crates S3-25-3.e0.
Carloads AMI In mixed cars FOB
cash track-round type bulk per
ton 5000. crates ~s350-3.75: lettuce
crates $685. 90. Trucklcads cash
70 growers-bulk per ton s50-60.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand mod
crate. market steady. Carloads and
III mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates Sl.35-l.55; bushels few 5000
loo. Carloads and in mixed car
FOB cash track-crates Si.25-l 40.
Bee.s: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand mod
crate. market about steady. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms crates Sl40-i.60. bushels
S0so-l.l0. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash ~track-crates sl.25-
40.
Snap beans. H5ullngs light. Good
wire inquiry. demand good, market
firm. Carloads ana In mixed cars
FOB usual terms-green stringleSs
bushel hampers S400-450: cash
track $3.75-425. Truckl0ads cash
TO growers-5ushel hampers green
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Potatoes: Haulings light. Ship
ments light. Moderate wire inquiry,
demand moderate, market steady.
Carloads and in mixed ars FOB
usual terms-l00 ID. sacks Bliss
Triumphs US No. Is mostly $500,
few higher: cash track mostly
S3.75, few higher. Truckloads cash
10 grovers-sacked for cwt.. mostly
$3.50. few higher. Fifty pound sacks
1Cc cwt. extra.
Primary destinations of Lower
Valley movement reported Tuesday,
March IS:
Cabbage: II 81. Louis. 4 each
Houston, Shreveport, ? Jersey City;
/ each Texarkana. Little Rock,
Memphis, Indianapolis. Philadel-
phia. Hamilton. Montreal, New
York. Carrots: 4 Chicago; ? each
g.. Louis, Boston; ! each Tulsa,
Minneapolis. Hartford. Pittsburgh,
Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia.
Beets: 4 St. Louis, 2 each New York,
Chicago; / each Baltimore, Hous-
ton. Potatoes: I each Kansas City,
st. Louis. Radishes: 6. ST. Louis;
/ Kansas City. BeetS and carrots:
] Chicago. Spinach ! each Houston.
Fl. Worth. Mixed vegetables: II
houston; 1 each Fl. Worth. ST.
YLouis, New York: 3 Pittsburgh; ?
each Kansas City, e PaSc, Mem
phis, Jersey City; l each Texarkana
Oklahoma City, Omaha. Monroe,
Rayville. Little Rock, Detroit. Den
YER, Johnston City. Birmingham.
Waterbury. New Haven, Buffalo,
Boston, Winnipeg.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Wednesday morning,
March %:
Mixed vegetables 40. cabbage 40.
carrots 26. bsets Is. beets and
carrots 8. potatoes 3. dandelion ].
escarol /, parsley ?. turnips !. total
156 cars. Freight movement 20 date
this season-Fruit 1919, Vegetables
10549, total 1928. TO same day
last season-FTuit 1910, Vegetables
l220l, total 1871 cars. Beans ex-
press 5 cars.
Carlot shipments OF entire United
States reported Tuesday. March 20:
Qncludes cars billed from midnight
to midnight:
Cabbage: California ?. Florida
20, South Carolina ), Texas 81, total
u. S. 20 cars.
Carrots: California 81. Colorado
I, New York 70. Texas %. total U.
5. 70 cars.
snap beans: Florida Z. Texas 4,
total U. 5. IL cars.
Spinach: Texas 95, Virginia II,
total U. s. f06 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas 10, Lou
isiana !. Florida 9, others 46. total
u. s. ISl cars.
Potatoes: Florida II. Maine 3Is.
Michigan Il, Wisconsin 81. Min
nesota 124. Colorado lis, total U.
s. 932 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Tuesday, March Is:
San Antonio, Texas 1South Tex
es Points,:
Spinach: Haulings heavy. Light
wire inquiry. demand light. market
unsettled and weak Bushel baskets
savoy. very few sales-carloads FOB
cash track 35-37 1-2c. usual terms
4o-45c. Most shipments rolled un-
sold.
Pompano Section. Fla:
snap beans: Practically no haul
So ~ 49, ~r1~~4nI