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Table 4 shows the quarantined articles, intended for shipment from 
the regulated area and for use in certified greenhouses or surface 
soil in nursery plots, in heeling-in areas, or in plunging areas, which 
were fumigated or sterilized during the 12-month period. 
Table 4. — Materials fumigated or sterilized under Japanese beetle quarantine 
regulations, fiscal year 1939 
Treatment 
Plants 
Potting 
soil 
Sand 
Surface 
soil 
Surface 
soil with 
plants 
Berries 
Number 
48, 543 
4,564 
75, 587 
Cubic 
yards 
Cars 
Square 
feet 
550, 394 
21, 560 
Square 
feet 
122, 406 
Crates 
2,775 
37 
4,868 
80 
509 
39, 089 
17, 352 
74 
47 
Treatment 
Plants 
Potatoes 
Sweet- 
potatoes 
Onions 
Tomatoes 
Mixed 
ship- 
ments 
Empty 
cars 
Methyl bromide 
Number 
302, 388 
Cars 
5,596 
81 
Cars 
61 
1 
Cars 
64 
55 
Cars 
8 
3 
Cars 
3 
1 
Number 
2 
Hydrocyanic acid 
5.629 
Treatment 
Apples 
Bananas 
Carrots 
Cucum- 
bers 
Egg- 
plant 
Peppers 
Methyl bromide 
Bushels 
Cars 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Hydrocyanic acid 
75 
633 
25 
50 
129 
1,331 
Nursery and ornamental stock, sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and 
manure were certified for shipment from class III establishments in 
the regulated area in the following quantities : 
Plants number— 33, 056, 496 
Sand, earth, and clay carloads.. 1, 815 
Peat pounds— 24,352 
Grass and stolons square feet 3, 612 
Manure and compost carloads.. 3 
Fruits, vegetables, and cut flowers certified during the seasonal 
quarantine on these articles were as follows : 
Fruits and vegetables packages.. 5, 016, 025 
Cut flowers do 71, 063 
A total of 248,586 shipments were made by class I establishments to 
points in nonregulated territory and between establishments in the 
regulated area. 
Investigations wore made of 2,250 apparent violations of the Japa- 
nese beetle quarantine regulations. Convictions were secured for four 
of these violations. Three of them covered as many truckloads of 
uninspected sweetpotatoes intercepted at Rochester. X. V. In the 
fourth case beetle infestation was found in the soil accompanying an 
uncertified forsythia plant intercepted at Los Angeles by an inspector 
of the California Department of Agriculture. 
