Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-25
Truck
Markets

VEGETABLE BULLETIN No. 66
T. o. B. shipping point informa-
lion reported Monday. March "a:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Eaulings light. Good
wire inquiry, demand moderate.
market slightly weaker. Carloads
and ! n mixed cars FOB usual terms
round type bulk pc ton $60-7O:
crates S3.T5-3l90; lettuce crates
4.00-3.25. Carloads and in mixed
s FOB cash ~track-round type
6ulk per ton S60-65: crates s3.4O-
3.65; lettuce crates s2.85-3O0. Truck
loads cash to growers-bulk per
ton 5000, mostly $50.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Good
wire inquiry. demand good, market
firm. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual ttrms-crates Si.35-l.55:
bushels few ~S0.90-1l0. Carloads and
in mixed cars cash track-crates
$l.30-1.40.
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-l.60; bushels
Sl.O0-l.l5. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track-crates 1925
lao.
Snap beans: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand
moderate, market slightly weaker.
Carloads and in mixed ears FOB
usual terms--green ~stringless bushel
hampers s400-4.50. mostly s4.25;
cash track "S3.75-4OO. Wagonloads
cash to growers-bushel hampers
green string,eSs ~S3.00-3.50.
Potatoes: Haulings light. Ship
ments light. Moderate wire inquiry.
demand moderate, market steady.
Carloads and III mixed cars FOB
usual termS-l00 ID. sacks Bliss
Triumphs Us No. Is mostly $500,
few higher; cash track mostly $3.75,
few higher. Truckloads cash TO
yrowers-Sacked per cwt. mostly
$3.50, few higher. Fifty pound
sacks 10c CIV. extra.
Primary destinations of Lower
Valley movement reported Monday.
March "a:
Cabbage: II st. Louis: 5 Shreve-
port: 3 Houston: > Pittsburgh; /
each Memphis. Chicago. Omaha,
Bluefield, Indianapolis. Montgomery.
Carrots: ? each Chicago. Pitts
burgh; ] New York. Beets: ! each
Chicago. Baltimore. St. Louis. New
York. Beets and carrots: | Hoboken.
Turnip greens. ! Memphis. AnIse:
l New York. Parsley: l New York.
Mixed vegetables: 5 St. Louis: ,
each Houston. Kansas City. ! each
Omaha. Sweetwater. Jersey City.
C~offeyville. Snap beans: / Chicago
(express).
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
gent reported Tuesday morning,
arch 25:
Mixed vegetables 80. cabbage 81.
Eeets 10. carrots 20. beetS and ear
rotS 10. spinach !, potatoes 2, total
104 cars. Freight movement 70 date
this seaSon-Fruit 1919, Vegetables
10391. total -4370; to same day
last season--Fruit 1895. Vegetables
1902. total 1897 cars. Beans: | exp.
Carlot shipments OF entire United
/ States reported Monday. March "a:
4 includes cars billed from midnigh.
10 midnight:
Cabbage: California 1. Florida IL.
! South Carolina 5. Texas 10. total
u. S. 40 cars Potatoes: Fla. s. Colo.
80, Ida. 80, Me. 20S. MINI. 81. Tex.
2. total u. s. 723 cars. Snap beans:
Florida / express. Texas l express,
total u. s. , cars.
Grapefruit. Arizona 2, California
6. Florida 80. total U. S. SO cars.
Spinach: Texas i03. Virginia ..
Washington :. total U. S. ll2 cars.
Carrots: California IS. Indiana l,
New Lcrk 8 Texas 2, total y. $.
AS cars.
Mixed vegetables: Florida 9. Lou
isiana 1. Texas IL. others Al. total
u. S. SO cars
Additional FOB information re-
ported Monday, March "a.
San Antonio, Texas South Tex
as Points,:
Spinach: Haulings heavy. Light
wire inquiry. demand light, market
unsettled. weak undertone. BuShel
baskets SAVOY. very few sales-car-
loads FOB cash track 3~7l-z-40c;
usual terms mostly 45c. Most ship
ments rolled unsold.
Pompano Section. Fla.
Snap beans: Haulings very light.
Demand moderate. market slightly
weaker. Wagonloads cash TO growers
-bushel hampers Bountifuls $500
$50. few best $500, some fair S4.00-
ATS. poorer low as $3.50; Black
Valentines mostly ordinary $500
400. few best $3.50.
Brawley. Calf. Imperial Valley:
Carrots: Moderate wire inquiry.
Demand moderate. market about
steady. Carloads FOB cash track
y crates mostly around slT5.
Hastings. Fla:
Potatoes: Haulings very light &C
| rount or wet fields. Too few sales
to establish market.