Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-06
Truck
Markets


reported Monday, May 5:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Warm. cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings light. Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand limited,
market dull. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB usual terms-round type
bulk per ton mostly around $4,000;
lettuce crates ~S2.00-225. Truckloads
cash to growers-bulk per ton S25-
IS.
Carrots: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and IN
mixed cars FOB usual terms-crateS
Sl.35-l.60, few best higher; cash
track $l-25-l.35. few higher.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market about steady. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates S 1,35-1.65.
Snap beans: Haulings light. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand moder-
ate, market steady Tor good stock.
In mixed cars FOB usual terms
bushel hampers green stringless
$1.75-2.00; cash track mostly SITS.
Truckloads cash TO growers-Sl.00-
$50 per bushel, best mostly Sl25-
$50.
Potatoes: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry. demand slow, market
weak. Carloads and in mixed car
FOB usual teTLns-l00 Id. sacks Bliss
Triumphs US No. Is few $2.75-3.00;
cash track mostly around $3.50. so
ID. sacks l0c cwt extra. Truckloads
cash 10 growers-S2.00-2-25.
Tomatoes: HaulingS increasing.
Good wire inquiry, demand good,
market steady. Carloads FOB usual
term5-lUgS green wrapped mostly
6x6 and larger $3.50; cash track
$500. TrucklOads cash to growers
per ID. mostly &c, few higher.
Green corn: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand
moderate, market slightly weaker.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-bushel baskets mostly
s225; cash track $500, Top ice
extra Paying growers mostly SIPS
bushel in field.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Monday,
May 5:
Cabbage: 3 Shreveport; 2 each
Fl. Worth. st. Louis: ] each Tex
arkana. Kansas City. Carrots: 3
Philadelphia; ! each ST Louis, Chi
cago. Hartford. New York. Boston.
Corn: z Houston: 4 each St. Louis,
New York: 2 Chicago; l each Bir-
mingham. Pittsburgh. Winston Sa-
lem. Kansas City. Baltimore. Winni-
peg. Onions: 2 Detroit. Beets: 2 each
St. Louis. New York: / each Chi
cago. Jersey City. Potatoes: 2 each
St. Louis. Chicago; l each Houston,
Birmingham. Denver, Shreveport.
Parsley. ! New York. Mixed vege-
tables. 8 Houston. ] each Ell Paso.
Kansas City, Minneapolis. Denver,
Dodge City. Dallas. TT. Worth.
Lower Rio Gra-de Valley move
ment reported Tuesday morning,
May g.:
Mixed vegetables 10. cabbage 5,
carrots IS. beets :, beets and car
rots 4. potatoes 50, onions /, toma-
toes Is. corn %, beans z, parsley
2, total 162 cars. Freight move
ment 70 date this season-Fruit
1919. Vegetables 1923. total 22l07;
to same day last season-Fruit i735,
Vegetables 1914, total 10000 cars.
Corn express ] Chicago.
Carlot shipments OF entire United
States reported Monday, May 5:
Qncludes cars billed from midnight
to midnight):
Cabbage: Ala. &c, Calf. 6. Fla. !.
La. s. Miss. is. No. Car. /, SO. Car.
81. Texas 10. total U. S. 127 cars.
Cucumbers: Texas 80, others Is.
total u. S. As cars.
Snap beans: Texas 2. Calf. 2, Fla.
rs. La. ?. total II. .. 80 cars.
Carrots. Texas 3. Calf. 81. N. Y.
3. total u. S. AZ cars.
Onions: Texas rs, others 4, total
U. S. 100 cars.
Tomatoes: Texas s, Fla. &c 9.
other Fla. II, total U. S. 80 cars.
Calf 4 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas 10, Fla
10. La. s, others Oh. total u. .. 90
cars.
Potatoes: Ala. 81. Fla. 20. La. 2.
Texas 80 total U. s. old and new
500 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
Monday, May 5:
Onions: Laredo, Texas: Haulings
moderate. Light wire inquiry. De-
mand very slow. market slightly
weaker. Carloads FOB usual terms
crates Yellow Bermudas u. s. No.
Is 30-85c. US Commercials mostly
Use; Crystal Wax No. is S100. US
Commercials mostly 90c. Carloads
FOB cash track-crates Yellow Ber-
mudas US No. Is very few sales 75c.
Many rolled unsold.
Potatoes: Hastings. Fla: Haul
ings very light. Better wire inquiry.
demand improving. market steady
for No. Is. slightly weaker for No.
Is. Carloads FOB usual terms
head barrels Spaulding Rose
US No. Is $500. US No. IS SIPS.
Tomatoes: Bradenton -Manatee
Section. Fla: Rawlings rather
light. Demand light. market about
Carloads FOB cash track
70 few sales reported TO quote.