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CIRCULAR 773, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Table 37. — Summary of spinach inspections, 1935-42 



ANALYSIS BY YEARS 



Year or State 



Carlots inspected 



Percent- 

 age of j 

 carlots 



inspect- 

 ed show- j Total of i Downy 

 ing decays mildew" 

 decay 



Average decay J per carlot inspected 



Other 

 decay 



Total 



Percent 

 0.9 



12.7 

 9.2 



II. 1 

 2.0 

 1.2 

 7.6 



Percent 

 0. 



11. 



1.0 



Percent 





 Trace 









 Trace 

 Trace 











Trace 



ANALYSIS BY STATES 





27 

 77 

 33 

 14 

 100 



14 



86 



3,104 



494 



9 



1,311 



50 

 8 

 47 

 27 

 11 

 37 



S.3 

 1.0 



8.0 



3.9 



.1 



7.3 



o 



.6 

 6.0 

 3.0 

 



6.4 





 

 1.6 



o 





 Trace 



8.3 

 .4 

 .4 

 .9 

 .1 

 .9 















Trace 









Washington. - - .-. 









Trace 









Total 





5, 018 



42 



7.3 



5. 7 



1.0 



.6 



Trace 



i Downy mildew and white rust included with decay. 

 - Caused by Peronospora spinaciae. » 



3 Caused by Albugo occidentals. 

 * Caused by Erufnia car ot or or a. 



SwEETTOTATOES 



Approximately 8,600 carlots of sweetpotatoes were unloaded during 

 1935-38, the years in which inspections were made. Eighty-seven 

 percent of the unloads were truck shipments; 13 percent were rail 

 shipments. Inspections were made on 38 carlots. or 3 percent of all 

 rail unloads. 



State of origin was indicated for only 5 carlots inspected: namely, 

 Florida 1, North Carolina 2, and Virginia 2. Decay, averaging 4.3 

 percent, was found in 16 carlots, or 42 percent of those inspected. 

 Decay per carlot inspected averaged 1.7 percent of rhizopus rot and 

 0.1 percent of black rot. caused by Ceratostomella fimbriata — a total 

 of 1.8 percent. 



Tomatoes 



Nearly 53,500 carlots of domestic tomatoes were unloaded during 

 the 7-year period. Half of them were rail shipments, practically all 

 of which originated in the States covered by the present inspections. 



