Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-29
VEGETABLE BULLETIN NO. 70

II. -. - shipping point tnforma-
ton reported Friday. March %.
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Cool, partly cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry. demand good. market
stronger. Carloads and In mixed
cars FOB usual terms r0ud type
bulk per ton S75-85; crates S4.25-
450; lettuce crates $3.40-3.75. Car
loads and In mixed cars FOB cash
track : round type bulk per ton S65-
IS: crates S~3.50-4.00; lettuce crates
$3!00-3.50. Truckloads cash to grow
ers : bulk per ton S60-5.
Carrots: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry. Demand moderate.
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms : crates
Sl.35-1.55: bushels few ~S0.80-I.O0.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track : crates 1.25-1.40, half
crates Sl.l0.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire enquiry, demand moderate.
market steady. Carloads and mixed
cars FOB usual terms : crates sl.4O-
l.60; bushels $0-90-i.10. Carloads
and IN mixed cars FOB cash track
crates Sl.25-1.50; half crates Sl.lO
Snap Beans: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry, demand good. market
steady. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms : green stringless
bushel hampers $400-4.50; cash
track S3.T5-4.25. Truckloads cash
to growers : bushel hampers green
stringless S3.0O-3.50. mostly $3.50
Potatoes: Haulings light. Ship
ments light. Moderate wire inquiry
demand moderate. market steady.
Carloads and IN mixed cars FOB
usual terms : 100 ID. sacks Bliss
Triumphs US No. Is mostly S4OO,
few higher; cash track mostly S3.T5.
few higher. Truckloads cash 10
growers : sacked per cwt. mostly
$3.50. few higher. fifty pound sacks
l0c per cwt. extra.
Primary Destinations Of Lower VAL
ley Movement Reported Friday,
March Is
Cabbage: Houston; 9 st. Louis: 3
Kansas City. 2 each Chicago. Shreve-
port: l each Sioux City, Springfield.
Grand Rapids. Minneapolis, De-
troit, Hazelton. Philadelphia. Car
rOts. 2 81. Louis; ! each Baltimore,
New York. Boston, Montreal. Chi
cago. Potatoes: 4 Houston; / ZACH
Chicago. San Francisco, Atlanta,
Shreveport. BeetS: 2 each Chicago.
New York, St. Louis; ! Houston.
Beets and Carrots: 1 Pittsburgh.
Spinach: ! each Houston. Memphis.
RadisheS: ! ST. Louis. Mixed Vege-
tables: 10 Houston; z st. Louis; 3
each Chicago. New York. 2 each
Dallas, Texarkana: / each Montreal
Shawnee, Tulsa, Hutchinson. New
Orleans, Shreveport. Kansas CITY.
Omaha. Minneapolis, Washington.
New Haven. South Bend. Snap
Beans: / Houston.
Lower Rio Grande Movement Re
ported Saturday Morning. Mar.
%
Mixed vegetables 20, cabbage 40.
carrots 3, beetS 2, beets and car
rots \, potatoes !. turnips l..Onions
i, total 79 cars. Freight movement
10 date this season Fruit 1919.
Vegetables 1914. total 1893: TO
same day last season : Fruit 1854.
Vegetables l3064, total 1853 cars.
Beans express / each Detroit, Chi
cago, Pittsburgh.
Carlot Shipments or Entire United
States Reported Friday, March.
%
Includes cars billed from midnight
TO midnight.
Potatoes; Colorado 80, Idaho Sc.
Maine $40, Michigan 80, Minnesota
rs. Texas A.. Wisconsin As, total US
814 cars.
Cabbage: California 8. Florida III.
South Carolina s, Texas So, total
US 67 cars.
Snap Beans: Florida IL, Texas O.,
total US 20 cars.
Carrots: California IS, New York
., Texas z, total US 81 cars.
Spinach: California 8. Texas Al,
Virginia 8, total US so cars
Mixed vegetables: Florida is, Tex
IS 80, Louisiana 7 Others 80, total
US 81 cars.
Additional FOB Information Re-
ported Friday, March 2S:
Spinach. San Antonio. Texas
South Texas points,: Cool, partly
cloudy. Haulings light. Moderate
wire enquiry, demand improving,