ANNUAL BE POSTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRK'L'LTL'HK, 1940 
trees inspected as compared with the previous season. This year 
* 448.24G Christmas trees were inspected in the lightly infested gypsy 
motli prea. Thifl was a 30-percent increase over 1038. when 344,066 
trees were similarly certified. Only 1 egg cluster was removed from 
a Christmas tree in connection with this year's inspection activities. 
Five hundred and seventy-two egg clusters and 7 pupae were 
removed from 22,236 lots of miscellaneous evergreen products in- 
spected. Segregated as to classes, these shipments comprised — 
Boughs, balsam twigs, and mixed greens boxes or bales 43,187 
Laurel do- — 7.102 
Miscellaneous boxes, bales, pieces.. 5. 702 
Do yards of roping— 17, 000 
Do truckloads__ 6 
Further tests were made with grinding machines used in produc- 
ing sawdust. Certification was granted for sawdust produced by 
mills using machines that destroy eggs on shavings fed into the 
grinders. Preliminary tests were run to determine the toxicity of 
methyl bromide on gypsy moth egg clusters. If this proves prac- 
ticable, a method of fumigation of heavily infested products will 
be devised. 
Large quantities of lumber salvaged from trees felled by the 
hurricane of September 1938 were inspected and certified for move- 
ment to noninfested States. There were certified during the year 
32,847 shipments of forest products. From these, 2.781 egg clusters, 
219 larvae, and 125 pupae were removed. Products in this classifi- 
cation certified during the year were as follows: 
Barrel parts, crates, crating cases, bundles XI. 247 
Logs, piles, posts, poles, ship knees, and ties pieces — 423, 6o?> 
Fuel wood cords— 10.101 
Pulpwood do 33. 652 
Miscellaneous wood do 212 
Lumber board feet — 01. 480. 440 
Empty cable reels number 45,257 
Shavings bales.. 100, 801 
Shrub and vine cuttings boxes 7.737 
Lags bundles 8, 137 
Miscellaneous pieces. _ 256, T>46 
Do carloads 66 
Do bundles, bags, boxes__ 14. ^41 
Do ton s l,lfro 
Do truckloads 5 
Stone and quarry products comprising 17.771 shipments were ex- 
amined From these there were removed 10 egg clusters and 84 
larvae. The products included in these shipments were as follows: 
Crushed rock tons 201,408 
Curbing running feet__ 39,667 
Feldspar tons__ 1,780 
Granite pieces. _ 138,687 
Do tons.. 20.010 
Monumental stone pieces__ 17,886 
Groat tons__ 4.f>74 
Marble pieces 357 
Paying blocks number.. 219.578 
MiHfvllaneous pieces, _ 11,618 
Do tons.. 1. 
Do carload— 1 
> purine the year investigations were made of apparent viola- 
tions of €be gypsy and brown-tail moth quarantine. 
