Is a Hawaiian Word Meaning Cooperation 
Your ‘“‘KOKUA”’ may prevent the accidental transportation 
of certain Hawaiian insects to Agricultural areas on the Main- 
land. Please do not take or send unauthorized Fruit or Plants. 
Upon arrival at the Airport, unlock baggage and have it 
ready for inspection. Ship baggage will be inspected when 
you reach the Mainland. All packages mailed to the Mainland 
receive Agricultural Inspection. 
For information on Fruits and Plants you may wish to take 
or send to the Mainland please call: 
This eye-catching notice printed in blue on a yellow cardhas proved effective for alerting travelers in 
Hawali on their responsibility in avoiding the transportation of agricultural pests. 
In Puerto Rico, the hotel card was re-designed to show a hitch-hiking 
insect in Latin American dress, with a printed notice in English and in 
Spanish, 
Briefing migrant workers by a talk before they leave Caribbean and 
Bahama Island homes is a system started several years ago. Thousands of 
contract laborers each year are instructed in advance what agricultural 
products cannot be taken to the United States. Many planes carrying these 
workers now land at West Palm Beach airport with no prohibited material; 
whereas previously large amounts of fruit and plant cuttings were inter- 
cepted, 
Briefing Mexican school children and other commuters from Mexicali 
and Tijuana has been an educational project of inspectors at the nearby 
U.S. border stations, Their aim is to make clear that the only fruits that 
can be brought over the border in lunches are bananas, grapes, papayas, 
pineapples, and strawberries, because other kinds may hide fruit flies and 
similar pests. A sample of overall improvement was shown when three 
busloads crossed the border into San Ysidro, Calif., on a school celebra- 
tion day. No child on the bus from Tijuana had any prohibited fruit. 
Inspectors had to take up about 100 oranges and apples from children on 
the two buses from another Mexican town. 
A microscope viewing of pests in soil for several automobile dealers 
was tried with success by a resourceful USDA inspector at Port Ever- 
glades, Fla. He had found that local dealers did not understand the need 
for the supervised washing treatment now required for soil-contaminated 
foreign cards entering the United States. He showed the dealers egg- 
containing cysts of the golden nematode made visible under his office 
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