644 



ANNUAL KEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



IMPORTATIONS OF BROOMS AND BROOMCORN. 



The record kept by the board of the importation of broomcoriiy 

 including manufactured brooms, is a matter of special interest on ac- 

 count of its relation to the important corn borer subject. (See dis- 

 cussion under "European corn borer," p. 6.) A statement is given 

 in Table 13 indicating the quantities imported and the countries of 

 origin of such broomcorn. As elsewhere indicated the importations, 

 this year were unusually heavy, totaling 42,000 bales of broomcorn 

 and 13,108 bundles of brooms— all entered and sterilized through the 

 ports of New York and Boston, with the exception of 254 bales of 

 broomcorn from Argentina and one bale from Australia, which were- 

 entered and sterilized at the port of San Francisco, The sterilization 

 of manufactured brooms was limited to those, usually of large size, 

 which, from the nature of their manufacture, contained large ele- 

 ments of the stalk in such condition as to be a means of carrying the 

 larvae of the corn borer. 



Table 13. — Importations of 'brooms and broomcorn during fiscal year ended: 



June SO, 1923. 



IMPORTATIONS OF OTHER RESTRICTED PLANT PRODUCTS. 



In addition to the foregoing record of plants and plant products,, 

 the board has supervised the importation under quarantine of 16,391 

 bushels of potatoes from Mexico, 45,121 cases of Satsuma oranges- 

 from Japan, and to insure freedom from earth 30,549 packages of 

 horseradish. 



The board has also supervised and safeguarded importation for 

 immediate exportation in bond to other countries of considerable 

 quantities of prohibited or restricted plants and plant products. 



TERMINAL INSPECTION OF MAIL SHIPMENTS OF PLANTS AND 



PLANT PRODUCTS. 



Arrangements were made during the fiscal year 1923 by Oregon 

 for terminal inspection of mail shipments of plants and plant prod- 

 ucts under the authority of the act of March 4, 1915, and the ter- 

 minal inspection points in Hawaii, Utah, California, and Washing- 

 ton were revised. California, Arizona, Montana, Florida, Wash- 

 ington, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Mississippi, the Ter- 

 ritory of Hawaii, and Utah had previously, in the order named,, 

 availed themselves of the provisions of the act referred to. Such 

 terminal inspection is conducted entirely at the expense of th& 

 States concerned and has proved to be of great value to the board in 



