BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 23 
Nursery and ornamental stock, sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure 
were certified for shipment from the regulated areas during the fiscal year in 
the following quantities: 
Plants number.. 28, 532, 867 
Sand, earth, and clay carloads— 6,681 
Peat do 60 
Manure and compost do 243 
Fruits, vegetables, moss, and cut flowers certified during the seasonal quar- 
antine on these articles were as follows: 
Fruits and vegetables packages— 4, 877, 241 
Moss bales— 1, 299 
Cut flowers packages— 29, 861 
Investigations were made of 1,317 apparent violations of the Japanese beetle 
quarantine regulations. These included interceptions by transit inspectors of 
the Bureau stationed at postal and common-carrier terminals and by highway 
inspectors examining road vehicles. Conviction was secured in the case of a 
trucker who transported uncertified farm products from Washington, D. C, 
to Manassas, Va. Prosecution was pending at the end of the fiscal year against 
a firm that shipped plant material from New York, N. Y., to Miami, Fla. 
COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISES 
State funds for cooperative control or quarantine activities were again avail- 
able in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia. 
Traps to suppress established beetle populations were operated during the 
summer of 1935 by the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachu- 
setts, and Rhode Island. 
In Illinois, Indiana, and Maine practically all trap labor was paid from 
State funds. Relief organizations furnished most of the trap labor in Detroit, 
North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, 
one-fourth of the trap labor in Ohio, and carried the trap activities in St. Louis 
through the first week in August. Altogether the equivalent of approximately 
$23,000 in labor was provided by various welfare organizations. In addition, 
State, city, and relief officials provided the trucks and drivers necessary to 
set and remove traps in Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, and 
Pennsylvania. 
Under an agreement with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, the 
Bureau will cooperate with the State laboratory located at the White Horse 
Japanese beetle quarantine headquarters in experiments to determine the 
effectiveness of the nematode Neoaplactana glaseri in eradicating established 
infestations of the Japanese beetle. The cooperative arrangements call for 
equal financial contributions from Federal and State departments for this 
investigational work. 
PHONY PEACH DISEASE CONTROL 
Activities of the Department in the control of the phony peach disease, con- 
ducted in cooperation with the affected States during the last 7 years, have 
resulted in reducing the disease in the heavily infected areas from approximately 
18 percent in 1929 to less than 2 percent in 1935. The peach industry in this area. 
which was in a demoralized condition a few years ago, owing primarily to the 
heavy losses resulting from this disease, is now being revived and expanded. 
Growers in the heavily infected areas still recognize the seriousness of this 
disease, but they no longer feel that it marks the end of profitable peach 
production. 
At the beginning of the year phony peach disease was known to be heavy in 
Georgia and Alabama, general in all other Gulf Coast States west through Texas, 
and light and spotted in North Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee, Arkansas. 
Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma. In view of the slowness of the natural spread 
of this disease and the apparent success of control measures, it seems evident 
that early economic control and eventual eradication are entirely possible even 
in the heavily infected areas, provided the shipping of infected nursery stock is 
prevented. Control measures of the year were therefore directed toward ill 
the inspection and removal of diseased trees from the environs of nurseries 
