128 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 1940 
CERTIFICATION FOR EXPORT 
During the year 5,080 certificates covering 1.419.387 containers oi 
plants and plant product > were issued to meet the sanitary require- 
ment- of foreign countries. 
Export certificates were issued at 32 ports covering 09 different com- 
modities which were exported to 80 foreign countries. Some of the 
more important commodities certified were the following: Apples, 
553 shipments consisting of 267,782 boxes, 22,870 barrels, 640 baskets, 
and 28 straps: pears. 206 shipments consisting of 185.361 boxes and 
L,300 half-boxes; potatoes, 1,326 shipments consisting of 435,074 bags, 
74,590 crates, 5,796 barrels, 23 boxes, 216 baskets, and 26 packages. 
Many of the shipments of apples and pears were certified under 
the cooperative arrangement with the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics of the Department, whereby licensed inspectors of that Bureau 
located at shipping points make inspections and issue reports which 
are accepted by the plant-quarantine inspectors at the ports of export 
as a basis for issuing the required export certificates. 
A brief summary of the export-certification work appears in table 19. 
Table 19. — Certification for export, by port, fiscal year i9J t 
Baltimore 
Boston 
Brownsville 
Buffalo 
Calexico . 
Canal Zone . .. 
Chicago 
Detroit.. 
El Paso 
Hidaleo 
Houston 
Laredo 
Los Angeles . . 
Mayaguez 
Miami . 
Mobile 
New Orleans .. 
Certi- 
ficates 
issued 
Xu ruber 
19 
33 
11 
3 
42 
4 
5 
182 
49 
lfi 
3 
11 
112 
1 
4 
5 
46 
Total 
contain- 
ers cer- 
tified 
Xumber 
73 
20, 550 
6. 132 
48 
29. 234 
6 
553 
6, 951 
isr, 
377 
I 
2, 823 
11, 116 
1 
810 
2. 101 
11. 547 
Com- 
modi- 
ties 
certi- 
fied 
Xnmber 
5 
3 
3 
3 
4 
1 
2 
6 
to 
5 
1 
3 
11 
1 
3 
3 
9 
Foreign 
coun- 
tries 
Xu ruber 
4 
Port 
Newport N'ews 
Nev York 
Nogales 
Norfolk „ 
Pensacola 
Philadelphia. 
Portland 
San Diego 
San Francisco. 
San Juan 
San Pedro 
Savannah 
Seattle 
Tampa.. 
Washington . 
Total . . . 
Certi- 
ficates 
issued 
Nit mber 
93 
3.870 
21 
17 
4 
4 
223 
1 
250 
2 
190 
1 
155 
10 
290 
Total 
contain- 
ers cer- 
tified 
.Vm mber 
5. 853 
808, 870 
1. 306 
5VJ 
225 
89. 605 
9 
94. 765 
2 
S3. 057 
54 
241.619 
2VJ 
339 
1,419,387 
Com- 
modi- 
ties 
certi- 
fied 
Xumber X umber 
3 1262 09236 6334 
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