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of lead arsenate to the areas showing deficiencies of the poison were completed 
by June 30. Initial applications of lead arsenate were also made to 11.7 acres 
of nursery plots and heeling-in sections. 
Lists of classified nurseries and greenhouses were revised and redistributed 
to the trade in March. A new edition of the shipper's guide, enlarged to contain 
the cities and towns added to the regulated area with the revision of the regula- 
tions effective March 16, 1930, was distributed in June. Similar distribution was 
made of a newly printed map poster showing the regulated areas. 
Commercial establishments conforming to the requirements for classification 
increased from 2,241 to 2,271. Divided on a basis of classification, 1,636 of these 
establishments were in class I, 618 in class III, and 17 in an intermediary 
classification with portions in each status. There was a net increase of 77 in 
the number of infested establishments, and a net decrease of 48 in the number 
of uninfested classified nurseries. 
Following transfer of the field headquarters from White Plains, N. Y., to 
Bloomfield, N. J., the Japanese beetle subollice at Rutherford, N. J., was combined 
with the field headquarters. 
Initial reports of adult Japanese beetle emergence in 1936 were received from 
Philadelphia on June 2 and from Glassboro, N. J., on June 9. 
CERTIFICATION OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND CUT FLOWERS 
Following organization of the inspection force on a summer basis just prior 
to the beginning of the fiscal year, over 100 temporarily employed farm-products 
inspectors were added to the personnel to meet the demands for inspection of 
commodities requiring 100-percent inspection during the period of flight of adult 
beetles. Inspection centers were established at 36 points throughout the regu- 
lated area. Special platforms were erected or rented at Fredericksburg and 
Exmore, Va. ; Washington, D. C. ; Baltimore, Cumberland, and Hagerstown, Md. ; 
Wilmington and Wyoming, Del. ; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Camden, 
N. J. ; and Syracuse and Menands, N. Y. Complete inspection of all farm prod- 
ucts offered for inspection began on July 3, when beetles began to emerge in 
large numbers. Inspection of cut flowers at wholesale houses required the 
assignment of special inspectors to that activity in Richmond, Baltimore, Phila- 
delphia, New York City, and Boston. 
Hampers of beans constituted one of the largest items among the commodities 
inspected in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and 
Virginia. 
With the concentration at Fredericksburg, Va., of inspection of all south- 
bound products moving via truck, it was necessary to employ 15 inspectors and 
to use four mechanical bean-inspecting machines to take care of trucks starting 
from or driving through the heavily infested territory. 
Revival of carlot and truck shipments of berries from the Hammonton, N. J., 
area occasioned the overhauling and reopening of the fumigation house ar that 
point. During the summer of 1934 the berry market did not justify the use of 
the house. Fumigation of blueberries in the grower-owned fumigation house at 
New Lisbon, N. J., started July 4 and continued until the crop was marketed. 
There was an abundant crop of berries from these two sections, large quantities 
of which moved under certification. 
Certification requirements applicable to a limited number of farm products 
from the entire regulated territory and on shipments of fruits and vegetables 
of all kinds moving via refrigerator oar or motor truck from certain heavily 
infested sections of the area continued in effect. The revised regulations ex- 
tended the zone from which refrigerator and truck movements of produce were 
regulated to include the entire State of Delaware rather than a single county as 
theretofore. 
Adult beetle flight in the vicinity of New Jersey spur tracks where potatoes 
and onions were being loaded became so heavy by July 8 that fumigation of the 
cars was required. Fumigation of these commodities, as well as bananas loaded 
at Philadelphia and Baltimore, continued until late in August. Most of the cars 
containing onions and potatoes were fumigated at night. Hydrocyanic acid 
fumigant was sprayed in the cars at the Loading point, after which the cars 
were sealed and then shifted into a central yard where the hatches were opened 
and screened and the cars certified. 
While the adult beetles were in active flight and swarming aboul many of the 
New Jersey railroad sidings where farm commodities were being Loaded, the 
