112 AXNTAI. REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF 
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All Importations <>f plants and plant products subject to plant-quarantine 
restrictions art' Inspected at tin- port of entry or the port of first arrival. A 
; of Mich Importations by ports appears in table '•'>'->. 
Tabu 39. Inspection of shipments <>f plants '//"/ plant prodw ■■ <i for 
( ntni. ftseal year 1936 
Port 
Baltimore... 
Bellingham • 

Browu^ville. 
Buffalo 2 
ico 
• •-ton.. 
Chicago 
Detroit 
Douglas 
Eagle ; 
ISO 
Galveston... 
Hidalgo 
Honolulu 3 __ 
in- 
Ship- 
entry 
permit 
Number 
Number 
252 
1 

32 

1..T 
1 
1,007 

652 
9 
513 

114 

37 
1 
538 
9 
32 


- 2 

22 

440 
o 
468 
42 | 
Port 
Houston.. 
Jacksonville 1 —. 
Key V. '. 
Laredo 
Mercedes 
Miami 3 ._ 
Mobile 
New ( >rleans... 
NeA York 

Norfolk 
Pensacola 3 
Philadelphia. _. 
Port Arthur. ... 
Port Huron 3 ... 
Portland, I >reg. 
Bhip- 
m- 
and 
under 
permit 
9 
- 
102 
2, 124 
1 
97 
107 
Ship- 
entry 
Number 
3 




- 

- 
44 
11 
1 

4 

1 
2 
Port 
Puerto R 
Rio Grande 
City.* 
Roma 
San Diego 3 
Ban Francisco 3 . 
• ro 3 
Iro 
Savannah 
Seattle 
Tampa 3 
Total 
ments 
in- 
and 
entered 
permit 
Number 
9 
472 
12 
3 
00 
26 
Ship- 
ments 
refused 
entry 
Number 


165 
i Includes entries made at Sumas. 
J Includes entries made at Niagara Falls. 
1 Col. 1 it these ports. 
* Pot .-. 28, 1036. 
In addition to the importations credited to the Mexican border ports, there 
were several thousand importations which wore so small thai do duty was 
a ed by customs and no record of them kept. All of these small importa- 
tion-, however, were carefully inspected before being released. Considerable 
time was also devoted ;it several ports to the Inspection of miscellaneous carg 
to determine their true status and to the supervision of the cleaning of ship- 
ments containing prohibited packing material or contaminated with objectionable 
materia] such as soil. 
DISINFECTION 
Disinfection is required of certain commodities as a condition of entry and of 
other commodities when Inspection reveals the presence of Injurious Insects • 
plan; diseases. During the fiscal year L986 the following plant material was 
treated under the supervision of Inspectors of this Bureau: Cotton, 141,972 
: cotton waste, 77,396 bales; cotton (inters, 18,546 halo; parcels of cotton, 
cotton [inters, cotton waste, and bagging, 2,071; broomcorn, 3,827 bales; rice 
fiber, L.652 bales; grapes, -"..Til barrels and i«» half barrels; chestnuts, 1*738 
cases and barrels; cipollini, .".lis containers; seeds, 425 containers; i 
laneous plants, mi tots; narcissus bulbs Imported under Bpecial permit. 200,878; 
and bulbous Iris, 960,881. 
In addition to the aJDOVe, various Shipments of plant material and <«»tton 
samples were treated at the Inspection house In Washington, i>. C, as Bhown in 
table 44. The record of cotton samples Id this table refers to parcels containing 
Bamples of cotton, cotton tin era, and cotton waste. 
MRP] wi in-im « ITON 
The two outstanding incidents in connection with airplane inspection during 
the fiscal year 1936 were the establishment of airplane service with the Orient, 
by way of Hawaii and the Philippine islands, and the Inauguration of regular 
e between Germany and the Tinted States by means of the new a 1 renin 
• nburg. 
