BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
101 
Table 14 gives data pertaining to shipments intercepted at transit 
inspection points. 
Table 14. — Shipments of nursery stock and other articles intercepted in violation 
of Federal domestic plant quarantines at transit inspection points, fiscal year 
1939 
Shipments intercepted in apparent violation of quarantines relating to — 
Station 
Black 
stem 
rust 
Oypsy 
moth 
and 
brown- 
tail 
moth 
Japa- 
nese 
beetle 
Pink 
boll- 
worm 
Thur- 
beria 
weevil 
White 
pine 
blister 
rust 
Mexi- 
can 
fruit- 
worm 
White- 
fringed 
beetle 
Total 
Atlanta 
1 
468 
35 
1 
73 
264 
206 
33 
1 
39 
114 
Boston 
732 
Chicago 
5 
9 
9 
1 
6 
3 
6 
27 
25 
1 
l 
260 
Cincinnati. 
74 
Dallas 
34 
Detroit... 
9 
1 
4 
4 
383 
13 
64 
14 
111 
4 
2 
5 
2 
11 
Indianapolis. -. 
1 
.. 
2 
Jacksonville 
126 
48 
571 
103 
160 
469 
54 
69 
7 
48 
131 
Kansas City 
2 
1 
10 
4 
1 
5 
48 
103 
New York 
964 
Omaha 
--- 
23 
1 
121 
Philadelphia 
242 
Pittsburgh . 
511 
Springfield, Mass. 
165 
St. Louis 
64 
7 
1 
138 
St. Paul 
1 
22 
15 
39 
State of California 
6 
4 
178 
Total 
1 
1,119 
2,233 
32 
5 
67 
257 
5 
»3,719 
1 Interceptions reported by cooperating State inspectors at several inspection points. 
2 The total number of violations represents 3,628 shipments, 91 of which were in violation of 2 quarantines. 
CONVICTIONS AND PENALTIES IMPOSED FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE 
PLANT QUARANTINE ACT 
The following convictions and penalties imposed for violations of 
the Plant Quarantine Act were reported to the Bureau : 
Avocado seed quarantine: One conviction, with a jail sentence of 
90 days. 
Gypsy moth and brown-tail moth quarantine: Two convictions, 
with fines aggregating $70. 
Japanese beetle quarantine: Four convictions, with fines aggre- 
gating $65. 
White pine blister rust quarantine: One conviction, with fine of 
$100. 
Quarantines affecting Mexican plants and plant products: Fines 
aggregating $401.25 were imposed by customs officials on the Mexican 
border against 379 persons caught attempting to smuggle in pro- 
hibited plants and plant products from Mexico. 
FOREIGN PLANT QUARANTINES 
The Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines is engaged in the en- 
forcement of quarantines and regulatory orders of the Department 
prohibiting or restricting the entry from foreign countries or the 
movement from Puerto Rico and Hawaii to the mainland of the 
United States of various plants and plant products, and restricting 
the movement of nursery stock into and out of the District of Colum- 
