110 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRIGUI/TUBE, 1939 
Tabu 10.- Foreign parcel-post package§ inspected, fiscal year t9S9 
Port 
Inspected 
Refused 
ifiS 
Diverted 
In part) 
mgton 
Released 
under 
permit 

Baltimore 
Boston -.- -. 
. i lie _ 
Buffalo 

-. 
Eagle Pass 

Qalveston 
Guam — 
Honolulu ' 
Houston 3 
Jacksonville l 
Laredo 
Los Angeles ' * 
Miami ' 
New Orleans 
New York 
Nogales 5 
elphia... 
Portland « 
Puerto Rico (all ports). 
St. Paul 
San Diego • 
San Francisco • 
Seattle 
Tampa > 
Washington 
77 
1.2.50 
" ■■ 
1,061 
5. 569 
485 
&42 
5 
7; 
2. Iis 
224 
88 
1.048 
4,965 
105 
347 
335.114 
351 
34, 563 
1,047 
34 
27, .56.5 
32 
5,627 
1,594 
1 
19.282 
26 
'■ 
1 
:' 
- 
- 

26 


293 
3 
11 
22 
71 
15 
8 
416 
11 
91 
19 
1 
58 
1 
94 
25 
1 
221 
40 
114 

17/ 
" 
106 

23 
i 
o 


10 
31 
13 
18 
106 
4,670 
5 
400 


76 

4 
2 
U 

64 
09 

31 
124 
120 

8 


191 

13 
3 
31 
2 
21 
342 
2 
84 
32 
28 
71 

790 
306 

3.929 
Total 467,718 
1,792 
6.291 
i Collaborators are stationed at these ports. 
2 13 packages were diverted to San Francisco for disposition. 
3 116 packages (cotton samples) were diverted to Brownsville for fumigation. 
* 99 packages were diverted to San Francisco and 1 to Seattle lor disposition. 
» 12 packag s were diverted to San Francisco for disposition. 
• 7 packages were diverted to Seattle for disposition. 
It has been the practice for a number of years to admit shamrocks 
through the mails provided they are free from soil. Large numbers 
are brought in in this manner each year, and they are included in 
table 16. 
MEXICAN-BORDER SERVICE 
At the beginning of the year certain of the newer typos of boxcars, 
which are so constructed as to make it practically impossible for 
cottonseed to become concealed in them, were added to the list of cars 
which are exempted from fumigation provided that they are found, 
upon inspection, to be free from cottonseed. This added exemption, 
together with the decrease in the number of freight car- coming out 
of Mexico, was responsible for a decided decrease in the number of 
car- fumigated. All cars found contaminated with cottonseed were 
required to be cleaned before entry was permitted. The usual fee of 
Si was charged (<>v each car fumigated, and all fees collected were 
covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
A summary of the railway-car inspection and fumigation is shown 
in table IT. 
