10 AXMWL BEPORTS OT DEPAETMENT OF AGKtOUI/TUSS, 1939 
land to the special area from which the movement of fruits and 
vegetables by motortruck or refrigerator car is regulated. Several 
isolated points in New York and Pennsylvania were placed under 
regulation, but no restrictions were placed on the movement of fruits 
and vegetables from these special areas. Fruit shippers were further 
• I from restrictions on the movement of commercially pa 
peaches and i ingle bunches packed in commercial con- 
tainers, indc.-- they were moved by refrigerator cars or motortruck 
from the heavily infested area. 
R of existing intrastate Japanese beetle quarantine regula- 
- were issued by the States of Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, 
P< onsylvania, and Virginia. 
HIGHWAY INSPECTION SERVK i; 
To meet the peak-month requirements for highway inspection of 
quarantined product-, three stations were added in July to those al- 
ready in operation at the end of the preceding fiscal year. By 
August 1. 1938, 39 roads were posted. Twelve of these were in Vir- 
ginia, 6 in West Virginia, 10 in Ohio, and 11 in Pennsylvania. The 
highest number of road inspectors employed during the summer was 
84. 
Toward the end of August the first of the regular stations was 
closed for the season. As road traffic in quarantined products de- 
creased, additional stations were abandoned. The last of the stations. 
that on U. S. Route No. 1, near Fredericksburg, Va.. was closed on 
November 15. 
In the spring of 1939 highway inspection began during the first 
week of April with the opening of 5 stations in Virginia ami -J in West 
Virginia. Later in the month 9 stations were posted in Ohio and 1 
in Pennsylvania, bringing the total on April 30 to 17. 
One station was opened in May, and 9 additional on June 15, when 
the seasonal restrictions on fruits and vegetables went into effect. AH 
the 27 road stations were being operated at their maximum by the end 
of the month, manned by a total of 75 inspectors. Virginia had 14 
stations, West Virginia 2, Ohio 10, and Pennsylvania 1. 
Approximately 7.7^0 live adult beetles were found in empty trucks 
which were returning to southern points after having made deliveries 
in heavily infested northern sections. One truck that was on its way 
back from New York was found to have 234 beetles. On another truck 
from the same city 213 beetles were found. 
Ninety-one lots of infested plant material were intercepted. From 
this plant material 26 adult beetles, 4 pupae, and 1SS grubs were 
removed. 
Count- of all motor vehicles stopped at the road stations for inspec- 
tion totaled 4,897,793. Of this number, 26,382 were found to be carry- 
ing uncertified quarantined products. 
CERTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF NIKSKHV STOCK 
Continued build-up in beetle population was again responsible for 
addition- to the number of classified nurseries and greenhouses found 
to be infested with t he Japanese beet le. In New England beet les were 
found on the grounds of 71 nurseries and greenhouses in Connecticut, 
l in Massachusetts, l in New Hampshire, and l in Rhode Island. The 
