BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
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SHIPMENT OF FRUIT 
The shipping season of 1934-35 opened on Sep ember 26 and the harvesting 
season closed April 2. The last fruit to leave the valley was permitted out in 
May. This was from cold-storage plants. Railroad reports for the season 
show 4,572 solid carloads of fruit and 38 carloads of mixed fruit and vegetables 
leaving the valley. These rail shipments show on our records as 4.67!) equiva- 
lent car lots. The base used in computing equivalent car lots was 372 boxes, 
575 bushels, or 30,600 pounds in sacks. The increase in equivalent car lots over 
actual carloads was due in large part to the fact that fruit shipments in sacks 
averaged considerably higher than 30.600 pounds to the carload. A total of 
17,699 permits for shipment of fruit by truck were issued during the season, 
or 2,801 equivalent car lots. Shipments by express are es.imated at 100 equiva- 
lent car lots. This makes a grand total for the season of 7,571 equivalent 
car lots. 
During the shipping season of 1934-^35 the new 100-pound box was intro- 
duced to the trade, 5 carloads of fruit being packed in such containers. A 
new bushel box was also used to a small extent. The 10-pound sack was 
popular during the holiday period, 15,644 of such containers being used. The 
use of sacks for containers increased greatly during the season, 15 percent 
of the crop being moved in such containers, as compared to 0.5 percent the 
previous season. Of the total fruit shipped, oranges constituted 17 percent. 
ROAD TRAFFIC INSPECTION 
In order to enforce quarantine regulations, it is essential that motor vehicles 
be inspected when leaving the area. A road station is located on the main 
highway at the Brooks County line and this station passed 11,631 trucks from 
November to March, inclusive. These trucks carried 2,283.6 equivalent car 
lots of fruit. The average trucker is well aware of the regulations and, as- 
a result, only 9 trucks were turned back on account of not having correct 
permits. Details of road-traffic inspection will be found in table 7; however,, 
as the road station was open only from November through March, not all 
details of fruit movement by motor vehicles for the entire season are shown 
in this table. 
Table 7. — Road-traffic inspection, fiscal year 1935 
Trucks inspected 
Fruit passed, packed in boxes and baskets 
Month 
Passed 
Not 
passed 
Grapefruit 
Oranges 
Total 
November 
Number 
1,534 
2,569 
2,676 
2,851 
1,991 
Number 
1 
6 

1 
1 
Boxes 
19, 731 
20, 781 
21, 550 
18,204 
26,481 
Bushels 
63, 111 
93, 484 
116, 955 
140, 218 
130, 149 
Boxes 
7,678 
7,711 
5,736 
8,868 
1,627 
Bushels 
62, 153 
130. 616 
122, 348 
122,613 
35,509 
Boxes 
27,409 
28,492 
27,286 
27, 072 
28,108 
Bushels 
125, 264 
December 
224, 10O 
January 
239, 303- 
February 
262, 831 
March 
165,658 
Total 
11,621 
9 
106, 747 
543, 917 
31, 620 
473, 239 
138, 367 
1,017,156 
Fruit passed in sacks 
Fruit 
Month 
Grape- 
fruit 
Oranges 
Total 
confis- 
cated 
November 
Number 
» 1,360 
14,667 
11,471 
23,252 
14,858 
Number 
» 1,361 
>5,000 
3,479 
4,937 
424 
Sacks 
2.721 
9,667 
14,950 
28,189 
15,282 
Pounds 
137,875 
655, 340 
1. 192. 360 
2,255,120 
122, 670 
Packages 
42 
December 
42r 
January 
18 
February 
0- 
March 

Total 
55,608 
15,201 
70,809 
4, 363, 365 
102 
» The total amount of fruit in sacks passed is correct. The kind of fruit in sacks was estimated for Novem- 
ber and December. 
