622 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Frti'its and vegetables imported under quarantine No. 49 during fisml year ending June 



SO, 1922, by ports of entry. 



Kind. 



Avocadoes crates. . 



Bananas bunches. . 



Cassava crates.. 



Coconuts number. . 



Eggplants crates. . 



Figs do — 



Grapefruit do 



Lima beans do — 



Limes do 



Malangas do — 



Mammeas do — 



Mangoes do 



Okra do — 



Onions do — 



Oranges do — 



Peppers do 



Pineapples do — 



Plantains do — 



Potatoes sacks. . 



Pumpkins number. . 



Sapodillas crates. . 



Squash do 



Tomatoes do 



Watermelons, .mmiber. 



Not specified crates. . 



Miscellaneous: 



Fruits do 



Vegetables. ..do 



2, 880, 450 



Balti- 

 more, 

 Md. 



1,117,900 



333 



Boston , 

 Mass. 



1, 705, 101 



108,300 



2 

 344 



Key 



West, 



Fla. 



17, 881 



3,148 



505 



1,264 



2 



Miami, 

 Fla. 



10 



42,924 



37, 790 



61,710 



1,471 



23 



295 



17 

 388 

 420 



50 

 176 



2, 773i 

 503 



4,555 



605 



808, 661 



20,445 



300 



153 



7 



41 

 27 1 



22,976 

 6 

 1 



307 

 100 



7 

 1,679 

 9,702 



165 



783 



2 



36,206 



30 



7 

 37 



New 



Or- t 

 leans, 

 La. 



New 

 York, 



N.y. 



13,602l 7, 



868,963 8,377, 



263, 200 30, 3,10, 

 4,40l! 4S, 



7,485| 

 "236 



117, 

 6, 



468 

 568 

 60 

 2S2 

 453 

 590 

 105 

 885 

 636 

 335 



21 7, 668 



2,758,9581 17,169 



I 40 



l,872,500j 15,000 



272. 

 4,911: 

 2,647 



2,258 

 18, 456 



7 

 39, 318 



1, 

 3, 



3, 

 o 



111; 



232, 

 36, 



077 

 158 

 902 

 988 

 427 

 083 

 085 



36 



102 



918 

 117 



53 

 17 



922 



95 

 132 



Phila- ] Tam- 

 delphia, i pa. 

 Pa. I Fla. 



Total. 



38 



300 



1,271 



153 



100 



20 



129 



2,266 



8,545 



98 

 21 



235 



190 

 3 



46,636 



654,281 



605 



776, 236 



52, 856 



592 



186, 981 



6,885 



944 



1,023 



1,967 



6,039 



6,134 



4,002 



9,329 



114, 426 



065,918 



75, 281 



300 



452 



811 



927 



200, 852 



36 



924 



656 

 316 



PORT-INSPECTION SERVICE. 



This service is the first line of defense and represents a very im- 

 portant and rapidly growing activity. The enforcement of foreign 

 quarantines must primarily be carried out at the ports of entry of 

 the United States. It involves the inspection, in cooperation with 

 customs officers, of vessels arriving from foreign countries for the 

 purpose of excluding plant pests with plant material brought as 

 cargo of such vessels or by passengers or crews. In the case of 

 Mexico, it involves the control of freight and other traffic between 

 that Republic and the United States, and control to a much less 

 extent on the Canadian border. 



Two States, California and Florida, on account of their very im- 

 portant fruit interests, are giving most valuable cooperation and aid 

 in such port-inspection work. The State of California is spending in 

 this work approximately SI 00,000 a year to protect her great fruit 

 industry, and by collaboration this department gets the advantage 

 of this work at trifling cost. Florida is in a similar status. No other 

 States are taking this kind of action, and the protection at the other 

 ports of the United States is practically limited to work of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board. 



The importance of this work may be illustrated by the following 

 typical instance: The examination of the personal baggage of a 

 passenger landing at Baltimore from Brazil disclosed in one of his 

 boxes some fifty-odd packages of Brazilian cotton seed all infested 

 with living pink bollworms. The owner proposed to take the 

 material to the cotton section of Mississippi for planting. Had there 

 been no inspector at Baltimore, this entry would probably have 



