BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
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Table 8. — Car-lot shipments of citrus fruit from the lower Rio Grande Valley, 
Tex., and total production in stated i/ears 
Shipments by rail 
Equivalent 80-pound boxes 
Shipping season 
Grape- 
fruit 
Oranges 
Mixed 
citrus 
Mixed 
fruit 
and 
vege- 
tables 
By rail 
By truck 
By ex- 
press 
Canned 
Total 
1921-22 
Carlots 
7 
44 
107 
508 
290 
706 
1,042 
1,604 
3,491 
2,502 
5,318 
2,666 
1,602 
4,248 
3,730 
Carlots 
1 
.. 
1 
11 
27 
26 
116 
98 
194 
93 
63 
138 
325 
Carlots 
5 
7 
7 
11 
Carlots 
Boxes 
4,030 
15, 810 
35, 340 
161, 200 
90, 210 
234, 360 
314, 960 
610, 392 
1, 384, 692 
1, 002, 588 
2, 114, 796 
1, 125, 594 
670, 275 
1, 743, 240 
1, 750, 368 
Boxes 
Boxes 
620 
Boxes 
Boxes 
4,650 
1922-23 .. 
15,810 
1923-24.... 
35, 340 
1924-25 
310 
56, 865 
59, 768 
58, 820 
81, 202 
82, 775 
74,026 
53, 493 
36,424 
35, 590 
85, 891 
96,120 
161.510 
1925-26.... 
147, 075 
1926-27 
39 
86 
124 
372 
222 
492 
257 
121 
186 
557 
119" 
146 
62 
29 
38 
118 
294, 12S 
1927-28. 
98, 710 
IH860 
221, 676 
312, 504 
664, 680 
527, 980 
760, 549 
1, 017, 322 
949, 291 
472, 490 
1928-29 
846, 454 
1929-30 
20,000 
55, 850 
102, 800 
45, 605 
86, 320 
407, 300 
605, 504 
1, 709, 143 
1930-31 
1,441,968 
1931-32 
2, 935, 769 
1932-33. 
1, 735, 603 
1933-34 
1, 552, 734 
1934-35. 
3, 253, 753 
1935-36 
3, 401, 283 
Most of the crop moved to market in the standard 80-pound box. Eight 
carloads were shipped in the new 100-pound box and 10 carloads in the new 
50-pound or bushel box. The equivalent of 866 carlots were shipped in water- 
proof mesh sacks. Oranges constituted 25 percent of the total fruit shipped. 
A total of 3,793 shipments were made by truck during the year to points out- 
side of Texas. The States, together with the number of shipments to each, are 
as follows : Oklahoma, 1,376 ; Arkansas, 397 ; Missouri. 442 ; New Mexico, 103 ; 
Nebraska, 118; Kansas, 542; Colorado, 269; Louisiana. 464; Illinois, 12: North 
Dakota, 1 ; South Dakota, 5 ; Mississippi. 23 : Indiana, 8 ; Maryland, 1 ; Michigan, 
9 ; Minnesota, 2 ; Ohio, 3 ; Alabama, 1 ; Georgia, 1 ; Kentucky, 2 ; Maine, 1 ; 
Montana, 3: New York, 3; Tennessee, 3; Wisconsin, 1; Virginia, 1; Pennsyl- 
vania, 1 ; and Iowa, 1. 
WEST INDIAN FRUITFLY AND CITRUS BLACKFLY 
The Second Deficiency Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935 provided 
an appropriation of $36,000 for cooperation with the State Plant Board of 
Florida on the eradication and control of the West Indian fruit fly and the 
citrus blackfly. The State plant board has continued its work on the West 
Indian fruitfly and the citrus blackfly, the Bureau cooperating in both these 
activities. The work on the citrus blackfly conducted on the island of Key 
West bad previously been carried on solely with funds provided by the state. 
These activities involved spraying of various host trees to eradicate the in- 
festation of the blackfly. which was recently discovered on this island. Oppo- 
sition on the part of residents to spraying operations hampered the work and 
for a while spraying was discontinued. During the latter part of the year the 
courts rendered decisions favorable for continuing the work, and the eradication 
activities were resumed, but since then the expenses of operation have been 
supported by State funds. 
The active work to eradicate the two tonus of the West Indian fruitfly 
known to occur in Key West was continued during the Bummer and early tali. 
in cooperation with the State plant board. This included the clean-up of 
h< st fruits, the spraying of host trees with sweetened poison, and the operation 
o'' traps containing attractants. Some trapping was also carried en in other 
southern parts of the State, and early in the winter of 1935 adult specimens 
of both forms of the West Indian fruitfly were collected in traps in a number 
of locations in the southern part of Florida. Following this, trapping opera- 
tions on the mainland were intensified and revealed the presence of fruitflies 
in some '20 different localities. The discovery of the presence of adult fruit- 
flies in various locations on the mainland led to the revocation, by the St ;1 te 
