BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 119 
Iii addition to the commodities listed in table 13, 507 lots of plant 
material were entered at Canadian border ports where no plant- 
quarantine inspectors are stationed, through the cooperation of the 
customs officers and of the Division of Foreign Pests Suppression of 
the Canadian Department of Agriculture. These importations con- 
sisted of 22 lots, containing 90 lugs of tomatoes and 3.418 bunches 
of bananas: 170 lots, consisting of 5,485 bales of bagging, cotton, 
and cotton waste: 162 lots, totaling 381,499 bushels of shelled corn; 
3 lots, consisting of 48 broomcorn brooms: and 150 lots of nursery 
stock, consisting of 691 containers and 1,670 individual plants. 
At the Mexican border ports there were several thousand importa- 
tions of fruits and vegetables in such small quantities that no entries 
were required by customs and no plant-quarantine record of them 
was kept, hence they do not appear in the table. All these small 
importations were carefully inspected before being released, and their 
handling represented a great deal of work, especially at the larger 
ports. 
Many of the ports have devoted considerable time to the inspection 
of packing materials used in connection with commodities not subject 
to plant-quarantine restriction. When prohibited packing material 
is discovered, it must be treated or removed and destroyed under the 
supervision of a plant-quarantine inspector. Shipments of imported 
liquors have continued to arrive packed with straw jackets which 
have been contaminated with vetch plants bearing seeds infested 
with living bruchids. All jackets in which living bruchids were 
found had to be removed and destroyed or given to fumigation ap- 
proved for imported vetch seed found to be infested with living 
bruchids. 
DISINFECTION* 
Disinfection is required of certain commodities as a condition of 
entry and of other commodities when inspection reveals the presence 
of injurious insects or plant diseases. The following plant material 
was treated under the supervision of inspectors and collaborators of 
this Bureau : 
Bagasse 66 bales. 
Bagging 2, 720 bales. 
Broomcorn . 967 packages. 
Chestnuts 10, 634 eases. 
Cipollini 23. 920 cases. 
Cotton 162. 232 bales. 
Cotton linters 64, 103 bales. 
Cotton samples 10, 012 packages. 
Cotton waste 24, 128 bales. 
Grapes 2, 432 containers. 
Kndzn seed 63 bags. 
Lima beans 14, 888 containers. 
Miscellaneous plants 837 containers, 45,424 units. 1 
Narcissus 13 containers, 2,763 units. 1 
Peaches 606 containers. 
Pigeonpeas 5, 578 containers. 
Rags 30 bales. 
Rice fiber 196 bales. 
String beans 1, 471 hampers. 
Tree seed 154 packages. 3,176 pounds. 
\etch seed 492 bags. 
defers to plants, cuttings, bulbs, roots, or other propagating units concerned. 
