BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
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During the fiscal year a total of 2,996 airplanes arriving from foreign countries 
and Hawaii were inspected. These airplanes arrived at the following 16 ports 
of entry: Nogales and Naco, Ariz.; Calexico, Los Angeles. San Francisco, and 
San Diego, Calif.; Miami and West Falm Beach, Fla. ; Boston, Mass.; Phila- 
delphia, Pa.; San Juan, P. R. ; Brownsville, El Paso, Laredo, and Presidio, 
Tex.; and Seattle. Wash. 
A total of 1,168 interceptions of prohibited and restricted plant material 
were taken from 722 airplanes. 
FOREIGN PARCEL-POST INSPECTION 
Through cooperation with customs and post-office officials, mail packages from 
foreign countries which are found to contain plants or plant products are 
referred to inspectors of this Bureau for examination. Such packages arriving 
at ports of entry where no plant-quarantine inspectors are stationed are for- 
warded to the nearest port where inspection can be made. 
There was a decided increase in this activity during the year, as indicated by 
the total number of packages inspected at all ports, 191,740, compared with 
107.450 for the fiscal year 1935. A record by port of the number and disposition 
of the foreign parcel-post packages inspected appears in table 40. 
Table 40. — Foreign parcel-post packages inspected, fiscal year 1936 
Port 
In- 
spected 
Refused 
entry 
(entire 
or in 
part) 
Di- 
verted 
to 
Wash- 
ington 
Port 
In- 
spected 
Refused 
entry 
(entire 
or in 
part) 
Di- 
verted 
to 
Wash- 
ington 
Atlanta 1 
Number 
65 
1,440 
13, 792 
624 
1,037 
12, 580 
3,693 
515 
735 
1,152 
193 
243 
477 
4,497 
117 
Number 
7 
50 
73 
5 
36 
384 
105 
1 
141 
46 
2 
42 
47 
99 
72 
Number 
24 
201 
2,776 

346 
391 
164 

39 

14 
34 
7 
1 
10 
Naco __ 
Number 
43 
187 
120, 213 
660 
8,726 
135 
18 
12, 231 
84 
5,303 
1,700 
6 
1,274 
Number 

26 
1,408 
16 
161 
13 
3 
131 
3 
99 
56 
5 
20 
Number 

Baltimore 
47 
Boston 
New York 
6,206 
Brownsville 
7 
Buffalo 
1,231 
Chicago 
Portland, Oreg. 8 
1 
Detroit 
Puerto Rico (all ports)... 
St. Paul 

Eagle Pass 
100 
El Paso 2 
San Diesro 1 .. 

Honolulu J 
1 
Houston. 
Seattle 

Jacksonville 1 . 

Laredo .. 
Washington, D. C 
Total 

191, 740 
3,051 
11,600 
1 Collaborators are stationed at these ports. 
1 49 packages diverted to San Francisco for disposition. 
1 245 packages diverted to San Francisco for disposition. 
* 6 packages diverted to San Francisco for disposition. 
* 5 packages diverted to Seattle for disposition. 
Following the policy adopted last fiscal year, shamrocks, which are permitted 
entry through the mails provided they are free from soil, are included in table 
42. Of the number of packages listed as inspected the following represent 
shamrocks: Baltimore, 148; Boston, 9.500: Chicago, 5,510; Detroit. 640: Los 
Angeles, 602; New York, 51,745; Philadelphia, 2,128; St. Paul. 'M7> ; San Fran- 
cisco, 892 ; Seattle, 95. 
MEXICAN-BORDER SERVICE 
A total of 27,259 freight cars entered the United States from Mexico during 
the year. This represents a decrease of 3,477 from the fiscal year 1985, which 
may be accounted for, in a large part, by the decrease in the entry of corn 
and other feeds for which there was an unusual demand during the droughl 
conditions of 1934. However, the number of cars requiring fumigation as a 
condition of entry continued to increase, as has been the case during each suc- 
cessive year since 1933. A total of 8,181 cars were fumigated during the year, 
representing an increase of 1,340 cars, or 194- percent, over the number fumi- 
gated during the fiscal year 1035. All cars found to be contaminated with 
cottonseed were required to be cleaned before entry was permitted. The usual 
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