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Total shipments equivalent to 4,661 carloads were certified during the season. 
Approximately 32 percent of this fruit was moved by truck. While the majority 
of truck shipments went to Texas points and were certified under the State regu- 
lations, 1,816 master permits were issued for shipments by road vehicles destined 
to 24 other States and the District of Columbia. In addition, many out-of-state 
truckers secured loads of valley fruit in the markets of San Antonio, Dallas, 
Houston, and other Texas cities. 
ROAD TRAFFIC INSPECTION 
Traffic-inspection stations were maintained on the two highways leading out 
of the valley from the first of November to the first of March. As will be seen 
from table 10, a total of 38,839 vehicles were inspected of which 14,071 were 
carrying fruit. Of the latter, 1,390 were transporting fruit in violation of the 
State or Federal regulations. These tourists were given the option of returning 
the fruit 'to the valley for proper certification, or of having it destroyed at the 
stations. Only two complaints were registered during the year by travelers who 
were required to destroy the fruit they were carrying. 
Table 10. — Road traffic inspection, fiscal year 1933 
Month 
Total vehicles 
Vehicles 
having 
properly 
packed and 
tagged fruit 
Vehicles 
haying 
contraband 
fruit 
Packages of 
fruit passed 
in— 
Pack- 
ages 
de- 
stroyed 
Packages returned 
to area 
In- 
spected 
Hav- 
ing 
fruit 
Trucks 
Pas- 
senger 
autos 
Trucks 
Pas- 
se ager 
autos 
Trucks 
Pas- 
senger 
autos 
Boxes i 
Boxes 
Bush- 
els 
Sacks 
November.. 
December... 
January 
February... 
7,025 
9,654 
11,392 
10, 768 
2.303 
4,121 
4, 103 
3,544 
1,151 
1,917 
2,072 
1, 946 
887 
1,889 
1,550 
1,284 
26 
2 12 
1 
265 
312 
480 
314 
121, 756 
160, 878 
L86, 700 
169,002 
1,634 
4,107 
2, 935 
2,728 
22J4 
49 
60^ 
44 
"~2h 
35 
- 
853 4 
5 
Total... 
38, 839 
14, 071 
7,086 
5,610 
19 
1,371 
638, 342 
11, 404 
176 
2h 
5 
i Field box equivalent to 1 bushel. 
« Part of load O.K. 
The ranch roads leading out of the valley to the northwest were patrolled 
during December. No fruit was observed moving out of the valley by these 
routes. 
CENSUS OF FRUIT TREES 
For administrative reasons it is necessary to know the number of trees coming 
into bearing from year to year over which it will be necessary to maintain super- 
vision. Such information is gathered each spring by the various district inspectors. 
This census shows that 540,740 citrus trees were planted in orchard form, between 
April 1, 1932, and March 31, 1933, bringing the total number of citrus ti 
the quarantined area to 8,404,740. Of the new trees planted, 427,153, or 79 per- 
cent, were grapefruit; 105,291, or 19 percent, were oranges, and 8,296, or 2 percent, 
were miscellaneous citrus. Of the citrus trees in orchard form 4,813,040, or 57 
percent, are of bearing age. 
Most of the trees planted during the past year were set out by individuals rather 
than by development companies as has been the case in prei i Q8. Indi- 
vidual growers took- advantage of the low-price of trees to round out their plantings, 
while the general economic conditions in the country deterred the land com; 
from expanding their holdings. 
VIOLATIONS 
About the usual number of minor infractions of the Federal regulatioi 
encountered during the season, but none of them could be considered willful or 
deliberate. 
Of a more serious nature was the refusal of a nunc wits in the I. v ford 
community in Willacy County to clean the ripe and offbloom fruit from their 
trees at the opening of the host-free period prescribed under State law. The 
plantings in this eomminiU are of the hack-yard type from which wry little, if 
