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tail web on a carload shipment of Crataegus from the Arnold Arboretum, 

 Boston, Mass., to the Park Department of Rochester. The car and 

 contents have been returned to the shippers. 



While it is not the wish of the writer to make excuses for any negli- 

 gence of the Federal force of inspectors, there seems to be a feeling 

 that trees were put into the car which had not been inspected. We 

 shall try not to have it happen again, and want to thank the New 

 York force for finding the insects before they had become established. 



The inspection of plants and forest products includes the examina- 

 tion of lumber, cordwood, logs, poles, posts, bark, pulp wood, rough 

 lumber used in crating finished products, barrel hoops, second-hand 

 barrels and boxes, cable reels, and other products which might be 

 chosen by a gipsy moth as a place to deposit her eggs. Many com- 

 modities not strictly included in products of the forest are examined. 

 There are a number of quarries in the area from which the shipments 

 of stone for monumental work, building, paving, etc., are made: as 

 these quarries are often located in woodland or have trees near them 

 which are infested, many egg-clusters are deposited on the stones. 

 Our men are constantly scouring their territories in search of similar 

 possibilities. 



Occasionally, we get application for inspection of a carload of kind- 

 ling wood. Any of you can realize that it is a rather long, monotonous 

 task to examine such a shipment, but the men are somewhat consoled 

 in thinking it is not shavings or sawdust. Not long ago eighty hours 

 of work were consumed in looking over, piece by piece, a carload of 

 staves and heads of firkins to be used in packing fish or pickles in 

 Ohio, from which 12 gipsy moth egg-clusters were taken. 



Cars in which shipments of lumber or wood have been moved from 

 one point to another within the quarantined area are frequently littered 

 with bark which has been broken off in unloading, and need to be 

 cleaned before reloading with goods destined beyond our lines. The 

 railroad agents in most cases are careful to look after the sweeping, 

 but we have had cases where it has been necesStiry to have the car 

 unloaded and cleaned before a certificate was issued. In some cases 

 where many carloads of rough lumber or cordwood are to be moved, 

 arrangements have been made with the railroad to use only the same 

 cars to and from the points until the whole lot is transported. 



It is now a little more than a year since the quarantine went into 

 effect and there have been issued about 5,000 certificates for forest 

 products, some for a single sticky and a great many for carloads. From 

 these shipments, 2,573 gipsy moth egg-clusters have been removed. 

 During the same time about 7,000 tag certificates have been issued 

 for nursery stock, some for only a handful to go by mail, and many 



