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both persistent and positive efforts to permanently stop this leak, but 

 it is now one of the most perfectly working phases of the quarantine 

 work, and has yielded up from the express office in the Ferry Building 

 1,971 parcels of horticultural products that come under our jurisdic- 

 tion in a space of ten months. Out of this mass of material we inter- 

 cepted and destroyed 44 lots of fruit fly material, 1 lot of white fly 

 material, and 1 lot of contraband peach trees. 



As a result of the enforcement of the provisions of section 1 of the 

 state quarantine law in the matter of arrival of interstate shipments, 

 it became incumbent upon us to attend to this same class of material 

 arriving at points in San Mateo County. This has monopolized a great 

 deal of valuable time, but we have kept up the work and it has yielded 

 good returns. 



Enforcing the Federal quarantines on material from European 

 points has brought some interesting developments in our dealings with 

 the parcel post, and the performance of work that should be the duty 

 of a county horticultural commissioner has kept us busy. To all of 

 those who are sufficiently interested in this work to read the foregoing 

 it must be apparent that the quarantine service has not remained 

 stationary. In the opinion of the writer, who believes that the service 

 is still far from being perfect, the progress for the year has been 

 satisfactory. 



