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shipped into the State. Notices of shipments were forwarded to 

 Albany and thence to Mr. H. C. Sands at the New York office. 

 These notices gave the car number, the date of shipment, and 

 name of the consignee. With this information the inspector was 

 required to find the shipment and determine if it was desirable to 

 examine it. 



It is to be noted that there are in the neighborhood of sixty 

 terminals in New York City and that with the information 

 as furnished, it was practically impossible to locate a shipment. 

 The cars were often consigned to the original loader at New York. 

 Here they were shifted according to his wishes, so that the ulti- 

 mate setting of the car was obscure. In fact the cars were often 

 located after thev had been unloaded and their contents dis- 

 tributed. 



'In order to remove these difficulties, Mr. Sands visited each 

 railroad involved in Christmas green traffic and ordered that the 

 arrival in New York of each car be reported to him by telephone, 

 and that he be furnished at the same time with the following data : 

 Car number, car initials, name of consignee, point of origin, and 

 point of loading. From this information it was determined if an 

 inspection was desirable. In addition a record showing the date 

 that the car was reported, was kept. 



Having determined the origin of a shipment and having found 

 that it originated at some point outside of the quarantined area, 

 the railroad was notified by phone to that effect and directed to 

 set the car according to the wishes of the consignee. In several 

 cases shipments appeared to be made in violation of the regula- 

 tions, since the waybills showed that they originated at points 

 within the quarantined area such as Deering Junction, or Bruns- 

 wick, Maine. These cars were held pending an investigation and, 

 upon communicating with Mr. Rogers at Boston, Massachusetts, 

 in charge of the Federal Quarantine against gipsy moth, it was 

 found that the consignments had been cut at places outside of the 

 quarantined area and the cars shunted to the junction points for 

 billing. It developed that United States Inspectors had gone with 

 the cutters and staked out certain tracts from which the stock was 

 drawn. It further developed that the Federal agents of the 

 quarantined area refused certification to Christmas greens cut 

 within the infested area and consigned to any point within the 



