Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-18
Truck
Markets
Via Naval Radio station

ton reported Monday, Feb. IL:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points
Cabbage: Haulings moderate
Good wire inquiry, demand good
.naI.--t slightly stronger; carlaoG
and in mixed cars foo usual terms.
round type bulk per ton $55960;
crates S3.I5l3.25, few higher; let
tuce crates 52.75G3OC; carloads and
in mixed cars I. o. b. cash track
round type bulk per ton mostly $50,
few higher, few lower; crates
around $500; lettuce crates around
$2.75: Truckloads cash to growers
bulk per ton S45 q so. few higher.
Carrots: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry. demand slow. market
very dull. Carloads and in mixed
cars 4. o. b. usual terms very few
Sales-crates S1.35gl.50; bushels
90c ISll0. IN mixed cars +. 0. b..
cash track: crates few sales around
SIPS; bushels 75090c.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and ~
mixed cars I. o. b. usual terms very
few sales: crates mostly around
S2.25: bushels sl.50GI.75; in mixed
ars I. o. b. cash track. crates SITS
q2.00; bushels $1.254l50.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Rio Valley movement reported
Monday, Feb. II:
Cabbage: Is st. Louis; 4 Shreye-
port; ? each Houston, Philadelphia:
! eacn Detroit. Jersey City, Col
umbuS. Montreal, Kansas City, Chi
cago, New York, Louisville.
Beets: ] New York: beets and
carrots: l Shreveport.
Grapefruit: / Dallas: parsley |
Jersey City; dandelion: | Jersey
City.
Mixed Citrus: l each skidmore.
Beaumont.
Mixed vegetables: 3 each New
York. Houston, Shreveport, St.
Louis; 2 Chicago; ! each Hazelton.
Pa, Pittsburgh, Detroit, jackson.
Tenn, Peoria, Birmingham, Kan
sis City. Jersey City, Sweetwater.
Nashville, Beaumont.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Tuesday morning,
Feb. l8:
Grapefruit 8, vegetables AZ, cab
oage "a, beets 2, carrots 10, beets
and carrots 2, parsley 2, lettuce 2.
dandelion ], total 90 cars. Freight
movement TO date this season:
Fruit 1916, vegetables 5,704, total
$3.50; to same day last season:
Fruit 1928, vegetables 5,s43, total
I'LL cars.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Monday, Feb. IL:
Includes cars billed from mid
night TO midnight.
Cabbage: Arizona I, California
, Florida IL, New York II, Texas
ID, Wisconsin !, total 50 cars.
Carrots: Arizona 1, California
"a. New York , Washington /, total
80 cars.
Grapefruit: Arizona /, California
= Florida So, Texas ], total "a cars.
Spinach: California 4. South
Carolina j, Texas IS, total 90 cars
Mixed vegetables: Texas Is. 9th
ers 80. total SO carr
Additional +. O. b. information re
ported Monday, Feb. II:
Rochester, N. Y. (Western New
York points:
Cabbage: Moderate wire inquiry.
demand moderate. market strong
carloads I. o. b. usual terms-bulk
per ton Danish type, few sales $40:
W and lOO-pound sacks Der ton AZ.
Carrots: Light wire INQUIRY. de-
Hland Sow, market about steady.
carloads 4. o. b. usual terms sacked
per cwt. cut $3.50.
san Antonio South Texas points.
Spinach: Haulings heavy. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand SLOW.
market slightly weaker: bushel bas-
ketS Savoy; carloads +. O. b. usual
terms 50g55c, mostly soc: cash
track 40G50c, mostly 45c. Many
shipments rolled unsold.