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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1933 
CARGO INSPECTION 
All importations of plants and plant products subject to quarantine restrictions 
were inspected at the port of entry or the port of first arrival and a record of 
such importations by port appears in table 31. 
Table 31. — Inspection of shipments of plants and plant products offered for entry, 
fiscal year 1933 
Port 
Ship- 
ments 
in- 
spect- 
ed and 
en- 
tered 
under 
permit 
Ship- 
ments 
refused 
entry 
Baltimore... 
Bellingham 
Blaine 
200 
81 
15 
1,033 
437 
299 
353 
61 
19 
102 
333 
41 
351 
5,007 
1 
282 



1 

1 

1 
1 

59 

1 


3 
Boston 
Brownsville 
Buffalo 
Calexico 
Charleston 
Chicago 
Del Rio.. 
Detroit 
Eagle Pass 
El Paso 
Fabens 
Galveston 
Port 
Hidalgo 
Honolulu J-. 
Houston 
Key West »._ 
Laredo 
Mercedes 
Miami > 
Mobile 
Naco 
New Orleans 
New York— 
Nogales 
Norfolk 
Pensacola 1 .. 
Philadelphia 
Port Arthur. 
Ship- 
ments 
in- 
spect- 
ed and 
en- 
tered 
under 
permit 
214 
491 
201 
587 
2,193 
9 
73 
112 
5 
1,684 
11,128 
2,681 
216 
2 
364 
2 
Ship- 
ments 
refused 
entry 

139 




1 
4 

3 
22 
4 
1 

15 

Port 
Port Huron i 
Portland, Oreg... 
Presidio 
Providence 2 
Puerto Rico (all 
ports) 
Rio Grande City- 
Roma 
San Francisco 1 .— 
San Pedro i 
San Ysidro 
Savannah 
Seattle 
Tampa 1 
Total 
Ship- 
ments 
in- 
spect- 
ed and 
en- 
tered 
under 
permit 
Ship- 
ments 
refused 
entry 
53 
19 
9 
19 
637 
6 
27 
1,227 
542 
153 
75 
233 
864 
32, 441 
272 
i Collaborators are stationed at these ports. 
2 Work handled by inspectors stationed at Boston, Mass. 
In addition to the importations credited to the Mexican border ports there were 
several thousand importations which were so small that no duty was assessed 
by customs and no entry made. 
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 supervision of 
inspectors of this Bureau during the fiscal year: Cotton, 108,648 bales (including 
212 bales of linters) and 6,675 cotton samples; cotton waste, 2,665 bales; bagging 
1,818 bales; chestnuts, 15,323 cases; tree seeds, 3,909 pounds and 16 packages; 
miscellaneous plant material, 984 packages; narcissus bulbs imported under 
special permit, 1,076,356; and bulbous iris, 1,106,428. 
It has also been necessary for inspectors at several ports to devote considerable 
time to the inspection of miscellaneous cargoes in order to establish the true 
status of the material and to supervise the cleaning by importers of products 
contaminated with objectionable material such as soil. 
The demand for inspection of docks and ships for the presence of insects in- 
jurious to flour decreased considerably over the previous fiscal year. At Galves- 
ton 8 ship inspections were made, at Houston 24 ship inspections, and at New 
Orleans 23 ship and 1 dock inspections. 
AIRPLANE INSPECTION 
Airplanes from foreign countries were inspected at the following 10 ports of 
entry: Brownsville, El Paso, and Laredo, Tex.; Nogales, Ariz.; Calexico and 
San Diego, Calif.; Miami and West Palm Beach, Fla.; San Juan, P.R.; 
and Seattle, Wash. A total of 3,427 airplanes was inspected during the year, and 
626 interceptions of prohibited plant material were made. 
FOREIGN PARCEL-POST INSPECTION 
Through cooperation with the customs and post-office officials, all mail packages 
from foreign countries which are found to contain plants or plant products are 
referred to inspectors of the Bureau for examination. Such packages arriving at 
