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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1933 
Table 4. — Materials fumigated or sterilized under Japanese-beetle-quarantine 
regulations, fiscal year 1933 
Number treated with— 
Material treated 
Arsenate 
of lead 
Carbon 
disul- 
phide 
gas or 
emulsion 
Naph- 
thalene 
Steam 
Hydro- 
cyanic 
acid 
Plants 
number.. 
...cubic yards.. 
417, 548 
4 
Potting soil 
2,639 
369 
25 
717 
Mushroom soil 
.do.... 
do.... 
34 
15 
80 
do 
Sand 
do.... 
do 
1,191 
5 
14, 881 
Peat 
Surface soil 
...square feet.. 
.—do— . 
bunches .- 
314, 827 
2, 671, 070 
2,159 
Surface soil with plants 
94, 459 
crates. 
14, 966 
Nursery and ornamental stock, sand, earth, peat, compost, and manure were 
certified for shipment from the regulated areas during the fiscal year in the fol- 
lowing quantities: 
Plants. .number.. 34,268,557 
Sand, earth, and clay - carloads.. 3,809 
Peat... - — - do 83 
Manure and compost do 174 
Fruits, vegetables, moss, and cut flowers certified during the seasonal quaran- 
tine on these articles were as follows: 
Fruits and vegetables -..packages.. 3,629,434 
Moss bales.. 355 
Cut flowers packages.. 49,737 
Over 1,000 reports of apparent violations of the Japanese-beetle-quarantine 
regulations were received from all sources during the 12-month period. Investi- 
gations were made of all such irregularities, and proceedings were instituted in 
United States district courts for eight violations of the Plant Quarantine Act 
arising from shipments contrary to the regulations. 
STATE AND MUNICIPAL COOPERATION 
Mutually satisfactory relations continued with officials in cooperating States. 
Appropriations for regulatory and control work were available from the States of 
Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia. In addition, the State of South 
Carolina supplied lead arsenate for the treating work in Florence, and the Michi- 
gan State and city authorities concerned cooperated in financing the treating work 
in Detroit. Numerous community spraying campaigns locally financed in 
heavily infested cities were again repeated in .1932. Considerable spraying 
work was performed by private contractors in the environs of Philadelphia. 
Beetle-collecting contests were held by a number of garden clubs or local officials 
in newly infested territory. The application of lead arsenate in large quantities 
to lawns on infested estates and to private golf courses in Philadelphia suburbs 
has come to be a common practice. 
PINK BOLLWORM 
ERADICATION MEASURES IN FLORIDA 
The pink bollworm (Peclinophora gossypiella Saunders) was discovered infest- 
ing a species of wild cotton in southern Florida in June 1932. Such of this cotton 
as grew along the highways and in other easily accessible places constituted an 
especial danger, as tourists and other travelers could unintentionally distribute 
the insect to new localities. The eradication of this roadside cotton was therefore 
immediately begun and was soon completed to the extent that one could pass 
through the area without finding wild cotton, unless he should take special pains 
to do so. 
