22 A N XI'AL RK PORTS OF DKPARTMKXT OF AGBIOULTTJBE, 1940 
Nursery and ornamental stock, -and. soil, earth, peat, compost, and 
manure were certified for shipment from the regulated area- during 
the year in the following quantities: 
Plants number 3t »..":»"». VA(\ 
Sand, earth, and clay carloads_ _ 288 
Peat do 12 
( 'oinpost and manure do L's.H 
Stolons i square feet— 3,237 
Fruits, vegetables, moss, and cut fl >wers cert died during the seasonal 
quarantine on these articles were as follows: 
Fruits and vegetables packages _ .'!. "J(K». o27 
Moss pounds— 20.301 
Cut flowers packages 35,968 
In addition 242.741 shipments were made by class I establishments 
to points in nonregulated territory and between establishments in 
the regulated area. 
Investigations were made of 1,869 apparent violations of the Jap- 
anese beetle quarantine regulations. These included interceptions by 
transit inspectors of the Bureau stationed at postal and common-car- 
rier terminals and by highway inspectors examining road vehicles. 
A conviction was secured for one of these violations. 
COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISES 
S f ate funds for cooperative control or quarantine activities were 
provided by Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois. Indiana, M 
Maryland, Massachusetts. Michigan, Missouri. New Hampshire, X jw 
Jersey, New York, North Carolina, < mio, Pennsylvania, Rh< de [sland, 
Vermont. Virginia, and West Virginia. 
Total contributions from State, city, and Federal welfare agencies 
for trapping and soil treatments during the year amounted to $296,189. 
Experimental work with the nematode Neoaplectana glaseri in con- 
t rolling established infestations of the Japanese hectic was continued 
at the laboratory at White Horse, X. J., under the joint cooperation 
of this Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. 
CONTROL OF PEACH MOSAIC AND PHONY PEACH DISEASES 
Cooperative activities for the control of peach mosaic and phony 
peach were conducted with regular appropriations, emergency-relief 
allotments, and substantia] contributions from the States. More than 
16,400,000 orchard trees on 193,500 properties were inspected in 
counties of 22 of the Southern States from the Atlantic to the Pa jific. 
More than 104,000 diseased trees were found on ''.Too proper! ies, almost 
91,000 of which were destroyed. Trees infected with mosaic were 
found in 2 counties and trees infected with phony peach in .*> counties 
where these diseases had not been found before. Mosaic infected tree- 
were found in 8£ counties in 7 State- and trees infected with phony 
peach in 186 count ies in 11 States. No trees infected with mosaic were 
found in L8 counties of I States and no tree- with phony peach in L57 
Counties in L5 States where these diseases had previously been found 
tO exist. Four entire States and 86 counties in 4 other State- have 
qualified for removal from the phony peach quarantine statu- Bince 
1M(>, f> counties having qualified during the year. 
