(N-16803) 
Inspectors board planes and other carriers arriving 
from foreign ports, to examine and safeguard stores 
of food aboard and destroy garbage safely; also to 
look for any fruit, meat, or other agricultural materials 
left by travelers, and to disinfect premises, if neces- 
sary. 
(N-10609) 
U. S. Customs officers, who inspect passenger bag- 
gage, refer agricultural materials to a USDA inspector. 
The plant shown was brought over the Mexican border. 
If it is not a prohibited kind, it may be treated to kill 
any pests present and returned to the traveler. 
(N-9070) 
Inspectors examine infested plant material and identify 
the pests. Their findings are guides to official action. 
Regulations are changed when some pest becomes an 
agricultural threat or when a once-threatening pest 
need no longer be feared. 
(N-16813) 
Imported nursery stock, seeds, and cuttings are routed 
to a plant inspection station to be examined and treated 
to kill any pests. The picture shows plants being put 
into a chamber for methyl bromide gas fumigation at 
the Hoboken, N. J. stction. 
(13077-A) 
All cattle shipped to the United States from a tick-in- 
fested area of Mexico are given a precautionary dipping 
in Mexico by USDA inspectors, and the cattle are 
then brought into this country in sealed trucks to 
safeguard our livestock against the cattle fever tick. 
(N-33127) 
At the Federal quarantine station in Clifton, N. J., 
animals and poultry are detained when necessary, to 
allow time fer any contagious diseases to show symp- 
toms. These pheasants from India look healthy, but 
died in quarantine of the much-feared Newcastle 
disease. 
