Differences in State laws account for some variation in the provisions of 
agreements, namely, in the salaries of supervisors and inspectors, disposition 
of fees collected, and other such matters. In general, however, agreements 
provide that the service shall be under the joint direction of the Federal and 
State agencies. The Federal supervisor licenses the inspectors and is directly 
responsible for their training and supervision in the interpretation of stand- 
ards, methods of making inspections, and certificate writing. Hiring of per- 
sonnel, collection and disposition of fees, and the like, are left largely to the 
State cooperating agency. Inspectors must demonstrate to the satisfaction 
of the Federal supervisor that they are capable of properly inspecting the prod- 
ucts for which they are licensed. 
In most of the important fruit and vegetable producing States where ship- 
ments are made throughout most or all of the months during the year, Federal 
supervisors maintain their offices the year-round. In some States, however, 
where the deals are short, as is the case in several States east of the Mississippi 
River, the Federal supervisor remains only during the active shipping season. 
Licensed inspectors in the latter States also move from State to State as shipping 
seasons progress. Many inspectors who work in Florida and Texas during the 
winter months, follow the crops northward during the late spring and summer 
months and return to the South in the fall for citrus and winter vegetable 
inspection. In this manner they secure almost year-round employment. No 
small tribute is due these Federal-State inspectors, who, as they follow the 
crops and move from place to place year after year, do so at real sacrifice to 
family life. 
The extent of the organization of the shipping-point inspection service within 
a State is largely dependent upon the volume of work to be handled. In 
the more important producing States of California, Florida, Texas, Washington, 
Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, and some others, where large shipments of varying 
kinds of produce are made the year-round, an extensive organization of inspec- 
tors is required. The Federal supervisors in such States have found it necessary 
to establish branch inspection offices in the various producing districts. Com- 
petent and experienced inspectors are placed in charge of these offices and 
every effort is made to render quick and efficient service to applicants for in- 
spection. Certificates of inspection are usually typed in and mailed from these 
branch offices, because to have this work done in the central State office would 
cause considerable delay. 
In contrast to this type of highly diversified shipping-point inspection work, 
the bulk of the inspection work for the year in some States is handled through 
Gne central temporary office where possibly a large volume of work may be 
confined to one or two crops for a short period of time. The Georgia peach deal, 
the Mississippi cabbage deal, and the early potato deals in the Atlantic seaboard 
States are examples of deals of this sort. 
The shipping season for these crops lasts for only a few weeks or months 
and shipments inspected during these short periods constitute the bulk of the 
shipping-point inspection work for the year. Consequently, the Federal super- 
visor in charge of the deal sets up an organization to handle it adequately, 
after which the temporary office may be closed until the following season. 
Miscellaneous requests for inspection of the products produced in smaller 
volume at various times are then handled from the State’s headquarters for 
shipping-point inspection. 
Training Shipping-Point Inspectors 
At the beginning of a shipping season of an important crop, the Federal super- 
visor usually assembles his inspection force, including experienced and inex- 
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