102 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1936 
In addition, the B 
tton Unters, cotton waste, and bagging Imported by fi 
- i 
The Importations of cotton, cotton waste, and bagging show - over 
ear's Importations, aa follows: Cotton, LO; cotton waste, 22; .- 1 1 1 < 1 ba 
"] percent The figure tor bagging Includes 5,646 bales <•; mated 
with cotton In Its various forms. Because of thia contamination entry was 
permitted subject to compliance with the entry requirements imposed by the 
cotton regulations on foreign cotton covers The Importations <>f cottonseed 
cake, meal, and oil show ;i decided decrease from last year's anprecedentedly 
heavy Importations. Of outstanding Interest, however, are 'lit* large Importa- 
tions of cottonseed hulls, 18,918,375 pounds, and bolly hulls for fertilizer, 
4,320,000 pounds, from the imperial Valley, Baja California, Mexico, the only 
area from which such commodities may enter the United states. 
IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN, BROOMS. AND BROOMCORN 
Table 34 shows the importations of shelled corn inspected under the provi- 
sions of Quarantine No. 41, ami table 35 shows the importations of brooms and 
linHimcorn. 
Table 34. — Importation of clean shelled com under Quarantine X<>. 
country of growth, fiscal year ' 
/, by 
a try 
Pounds 
Country 
Pounds 
Cou 
Pounds 
Argentina ... 
642, 02 
4,169,313 
398, 790 
12, 287, 469 
2 
l 
5,000 
5,687 
B 
;",ooo 
Union of South 

19.465.436 

Canada 

rv . . 
United States (re- 
■ . 
99. ! 
Dominican Repub- 
lic 
Total 
Paraguay 
7S9.5S1. 179 
England 
Table 35. Importation of brooms and broomcorn under Quarantine No, .//. by 
mtry <>i origin, fiscal year 1986 
Coir 
Brooms 
Broom- 
corn 
Country 
Brooms 
Broom- 
corn 
:. i 
Number 
Bcles 
1,949 
Number 
lales 
298 
6,912 
Total 
Japan. _. 
13,153 
2,247 
In addition Inspection was madi Quarantine No. 11, which restricts the 
Importation o1 corn and related plant unds; 
corn -hi i lie <■<'!). green, tT.i 17 pounds. 
The Bureau also d the entry under Quarantfc of rice straw. 
1,856 bales ami 5 bundles; articles made ol aw, 5,064; and seed or paddy 
• l pounds. 
The Importations under Quarai ihow :i decided d« i 
from lasl year's Importations. No shipments by freight or express were made 
under Quarantine No. 24. The Lmportath elled corn under Quarantine 
No. M continued heavy, however, and represent the second Largest since shelled 
corn was placed under restriction by that quarantine on January I, 1927. 
Sped I Ion has been made for the entry of parcel-post shipmeu 
shelled corn and C related plants. The figures in tables 84 and :u> include 
such parcel p<'-t shipment b, 
IMPORTATION Ol BAGJ I UNDER QUARANTINE N08. 18 wn II 
importations of bagasse from foreign countries under Quarantine No 18 
totaled 29,274 bales and 9 parcels. Only <"> pounds were shipped i<> continental 
i • Quarantine No. u\. 
