64 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1933 
crease over last year of approximately 71 percent in the number of shipments 
certified and approximately 210 percent in the number of individual containers. 
The more important commodities inspected and certified were: Apples, 2,242 
shipments, consisting of 1,225,428 boxes, 90,110 barrels, and 39,543 baskets; 
pears, 1,065 shipments, consisting of 663,592 boxes, 37,644 baskets, and 527 
barrels; potatoes, 791 shipments, consisting of 159,058 bags, 8,402 barrels, and 
43 crates and baskets; miscellaneous fruits and vegetables, 899 shipments, 
consisting of 96,406 packages; and nursery stock, including seeds, 292 shipments, 
consisting of 846 lots. 
Through the cooperation of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, most of the 
apples and pears were inspected at shipping point by Federal-State inspectors, 
and certified at the port of export on the basis of such inspection. 
A charge of $1 was made for each certificate issued, and all fees collected were 
covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
QUARANTINE CHANGES 
Various changes made during the year affecting foreign plant quarantines, 
among which the fruit and vegetable quarantine of Puerto Rico is included for 
practical enforcement reasons, are here summarized. 
The avocado fruit order of February 27, 1914, together with its regulations, 
was revoked, effective July 1, 1932, thus allowing avocado fruits to come under 
the fruit and vegetable Quarantine No. 56, and avocado nursery stock to fall 
under the provisions of the nursery stock, plant, and seed Quarantine No. 37. 
Quarantine No. 19, on account of citrus canker and other citrus diseases, was 
modified, effective July 1, 1932, to release citrus seeds from a prohibited status 
and thus permit their entry under the regulations of Quarantine No. 37. 
Regulation 3 of Quarantine No. 37, the nursery stock, plant, and seed quaran- 
tine, was revised, effective July 1, 1932, to permit entry of all species of Fritil- 
laria; to permit the entry of mango seeds from North America, Central America, 
South America, and the West Indies; to allow entry for propagation purposes of 
certain plant materials admitted for consumption under Quarantine No. 56; to* 
provide for the entry of oriental fruit cuttings, scions, and buds, released from a 
prohibited status by the revocation of Quarantine No. 44; and to provide like- 
wise for citrus seeds excepted from Quarantine No. 19. 
Regulation 7 of this quarantine was also revised, effective July 1, 1932, to 
waive the requirement of freedom from sand, soil, and earth in connection with 
Canadian-grown plants. 
A considerable liberalization of the restrictions on the entry of corn and related 
plants was brought about in a revision, effective March 1, 1933, of the regula- 
tions of Quarantine No. 41, governing the importation of Indian corn or maize, 
broomcorn, and seeds of related plants. 
By the revocation of Quarantine No. 44, effective July 1, 1932, provision was 
made that stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds of fruits from the Orient should 
hereafter be enterable under Quarantine No. 37. 
The seed- or paddy-rice Quarantine No. 55, was revised, effective July 1, 1933, 
to include rice straw and rice hulls. 
By amendment no. 5 to regulation 2 of the fruit and vegetable Quarantine 
No. 56, effective July 15, 1932, it was made possible to relax restrictions in refer- 
ence to a particular portion or area of a foreign country when it is considered that 
importation from that portion can be safely permitted. 
Amendment no. 1 to the regulations of Quarantine No. 58, the fruit and 
vegetable quarantine of Puerto Rico, effective January 1, 1933, affected regula- 
tion 3 only, and provided for the admission to the rest of this country of a con- 
siderable number of fruits and vegetables additional to the limited number listed 
in the original regulation. 
A new quarantine, no. 69, on packing materials, came into effect on July 1^ 
1933. This quarantine prohibits the entry as packing of certain plant ma- 
terials, of which rice straw is the most important, and brings under a moderate 
type of restriction several other materials, among which cereal straw other than 
rice, and grasses and hay, are the most commonly used for packing purposes. 
Amendment no. 1 to this quarantine, effective July 1, 1933, permits exceptions 
to be made in the case of prohibited materials when these have been so prepared,, 
manufactured, or processed that their entry is judged to involve no pest risk. 
