BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AXD PLANT QUARANTINE 33 
Cutting of Christmas trees started in New England on October 15. 
Inspection of Christmas trees in the lightly infested gypsy moth area 
was considerably delayed owing to the warm weather prior to Novem- 
ber 25. Twenty temporary inspectors were employed for the period 
of Christmas-tree and greenery inspection, which was completed on 
December *24. There was a 55-percent decrease in the number of 
Christmas trees offered for inspection and certification as compared 
with the number in 1937. Curtailment of cutting operations, due to 
warm weather early in the season, accounted for most of the decrease. 
This reduction is partly accounted for, also, by the lad thai a large 
oversupply of trees in 1937 glutted the markets and made the buyers 
more conservative in their 1938 bookings. The situation is further 
explained by the removal from the lightly infested regulated area of 
26 towns in New Hampshire and Vermont. 
From 18,457 separate lots of evergreen products examined 1.164 egg 
clusters, 3 larvae, and 1 pupa were removed. The record removal in 
connection with the season's inspections of evergreen-bough material 
consisted of 500 egg clusters found on 5 tons of boughs inspected at 
Cape Porpoise, Maine. Products in this category certified during the 
year consisted of the following : 
JBoughs, balsam twigs, and mixed greens boxes or bales— 39, 641 
Christmas trees number— 344. 066 
Laurel boxes or bales— 7, 126 
Miscellaneous do 6,262 
Do yards of roping 4, 950 
Do truckloads 1 
During the year 21.441 shipments of forest products were inspected 
and certified. From these, 821 egg masses, 82 larvae, and 73 pupae 
were removed. Individual items certified in these shipments were as 
follows : 
Barrel parts, crates, crating cases, bundles— 59, 727 
Logs, piles, posts, poles, ship knees, and ties pieces — 1. 038, 717 
Fuel wood cords__ 1, 902 
Pulpwood do 30,934 
Miscellaneous wood do 134 
Lumber board feet— 40, 380, 770 
Empty cable reels number— 42, 417 
Shavings bales— 29, 581 
Shrub and vine cuttings boxes— 808 
Xags bundles— 7, 999 
Miscellaneous pieces 286, 453 
Do carloads— 80 
Do bundles, bags, boxes 1,033 
Do carloads and truckloads 14 
A practicable method of ridding wood edgings of gypsy moth 
infestation in the process of converting them into chips or shavings 
was successfully worked out in consultation with an engineering firm. 
Need for such a procedure was imperative to facilitate the certification 
of a large quantity of wood shavings being shipped to Brooklyn. 
X. V.. by a Lumber company in the heavily infested area. By instal- 
lation of a new type of cutter and blower, shavings came through 
free of all traces of egg masses or individual eggs. 
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