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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1933 
Table 38. — Number of interceptions of contraband plants and plant products, fiscal 
year 1933 
Port 
Baltimore 
Bellingham 
Blaine 
Boston 
Brownsville 
Brunswick » 
Buffalo 
Calexico 
Charleston 
Chicago 
Columbus 2 
Corpus Christi— 
Del Rio 
Detroit a 
Douglas 
Eagle Pass 
El Paso 
Fabens 
Galveston 
Gulfport* 
Hidalgo 
Honolulu 5 
Houston 
Jacksonville 5 
Key Wests 
Laredo 
Los Angeles 5 
Mercedes 
Miami s 
Mobile 
Naco 
In 
bag- 
gage 
In 
cargo 
In 
mail 
In 
quar- 
ters 
In 
stores 
31 

92 
36 
59 
23 



2 
1,745 




331 
1 
194 
103 
3 
1,965 

6 






1 
442 

27 


2,333 




3 
1 

116 
9 

4 
555 

16 
83 







7 

498 




564 
59 
245 


508 




1,994 




6,192 

118 


176 





4 

54 
19 



5 
3 
722 




724 
145 
108 

4 
35 
2 

8 
25 


19 
6 
25 
375 


92 
14 
3,872 

18 




114 


343 




624 
14 
31 
432 
36 
7 
4 
2 
62 
53 
276 

1 


Port 
New Orleans 
New York 
Nogales 
Norfolk 
Pensacola 5 
Philadelphia 
Port Arthur 6.... 
Port Huron s 
Portland, Oreg... 
Presidio 
Providence 7 
Puerto Rico (all 
ports) 
Rio Grande City 
Roma.. 
St. Pauls 
San Diego 6 
San Francisco ». _. 
San Pedro 5 
San Ysidro 
Sasabe 
Savannah 
Seattle 
Tampa « 
West Palm 
Beach s 
Ysleta 
Zapata 
Total 
In 
gage 
314 
1,370 
2,312 
10 
1 
37 
1 
239 
2 
131 
63 
162 
60 
278 

10 
284 
33 
6,775 
177 
1 
105 
2 

244 
17 
36, 494 
In 
cargo 
8 
322 



21 

3 


1 
1 



7 
29 
6 



1 




In 
mail 
8 
572 
1 


467 


2 





203 

50 




51 
1 



633 2,885 
In 
quar- 
ters 
378 
82 

105 
4 
82 
25 

1 


3 



8 
457 
18 


41 

5 
11 


2,141 
In 
store 
81 
19 

65 
14 
118 
12 

7 


1 



42 
148 
51 


4 
1 
11 
20 


1 Work handled by inspector stationed at Savannah, Ga. 
2 This port closed June 14, 1933. 
3 Interceptions in baggage are recorded at 1 customs station only, and the number reported represents 
only part of the total for Detroit. 
i Work handled by inspectors stationed at Mobile, Ala. 
* Collaborators stationed at these ports. 
e Includes interceptions made at Beaumont and Sabine, Tex., and Lake Charles, La. 
i Work handled by inspectors stationed at Boston. 
s Records cover the period October 1932 to June 1933, inclusive. 
PESTS INTERCEPTED 
During the fiscal year the inspectors and collaborators of the Bureau collected 
from foreign plants and plant products insects belonging to 958 recognized species 
and others distributed among 789 genera and families, fungi and bacteria be- 
longing to 175 recognized species, nematodes belonging to 10 recognized species, 
and numbers of interceptions of diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, nematodes, 
or other agents that could be referred to family, genus, or other group only. 
Many of these interceptions were of considerable economic or scientific importance. 
A total of 21,190 interceptions of insects and plant diseases were made during 
the fiscal year 1933. A summary of these interceptions appears in table 39. 
