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taken :tt an Isolated Infestation. Laborers to assist In applying the : 
spray were supplied by the local relief administration. The city fire department 
leaned hose lines, state and city officials Bccorded excellenl cooperation in 
facilitating the work. Results of scouting of nurseries and greenhouses within 
a LO-mile radius of St. Louis were negative a State quarantine on the i 
ment of host material from infested sections is now enforced. 
As soon as applications of lead arsenate were Completed in St. Louis, the spray 
equipment was transferred to Indianapolis. Ind.. where 88.6 acres wore treated 
at the rate of L,000 pounds of the soil insecticide per acr< operation 
tended from November 7 to it. 
Five tons of lead arsenate wore applied between December ."> and 7 to the 
premises in Charlottesville, Va., on which oo Japanese beetles were trapped 
during the summer of 1934. The treated sections comprise 10 acres in a 
dential section near the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad freight yards ami the 
Pullman cleaning yards. Arrangements were made by the City D 
Charlottesville for relief labor and the use of necessary city equipment to 
augment two Federally owned spray outfits. 
Trapping by the park department of the city of Springfield, Mass., resulted 
in the capture of 45,000 beetles. In 1933, 30.000 beetles were caught in the 
same area. One encouraging feature of the control work is that very few 
beetles were caught in traps placed in the sections which several years ago 
received lead arsenate treatments. In West Springfield, where some 
beetles were trapped in 1933, the traps collected only approximately 2 
beetles. As was the case in Springfield, practically no beetles were caught 
in traps operated in blocks previously poisoned. 
HIGHWAY INSPECTION SERVICE 
Vehicular-inspection stations at the border of the regulated territory were 
already in operation on July 1 at 20 locations. Seven posts were located on 
the southern border of the Virginia regulated section, two on the Maryland* 
West Virginia State line, one in West Virginia, seven on the Pennsylvania-West 
Virginia and Pennsylvania-Ohio State lines, and three in Pennsylvania to c >ver 
the highways leading from the regulated area of that Slate. In addition, three 
inspectors furnished with cars alternated between seven less important nigh- 
way stations in tin 1 latter State. The highway Inspection force numbered 
32 men. Closing of these road stations began on October 9. All stations on 
the border of or within Pennsylvania were discontinued by November 2. The 
single station maintained near Keyser, W. Va.. was closed on October 15. Five 
of the nine stations Inspecting southbound traffic were closed just prior to or 
shortly after Armistice Hay. Continued southern movement of holiday plant 
material justified operation until November 10 of the stations on United States 
Highways Nos. 1 and 17 south of Fredericksburg, Ya. Posts on United States 
Routes Nos. 50 and 211, west of Fairfax. Ya.. continued to inspect southbound 
traffic until December 22 and 23, respectively. The final interception of infested 
contraband during 1934 was made on November 1. 
Late in March 1935 the four Virginia stations that were last to close in 1934 
were reopened. Resumption of activities at 14 other established posts in 
Virginia and on the State lines northward quickly followed, with the north- 
ernmost Pennsylvania-Ohio state line post opening on April 10. These included 
a new Virginia post on state route no. 7. Guarding of the roads leading 
intrastate from the Pennsylvania regulated territory began on April 29. 
Pennsylvania Inspectors were assigned by May in to the last o\' 11 stations 
to bo operated during the season. An additional post was involved in the 
L935 Pennsylvania intrastate set-up. Engaged in this work at the end of the 
fiscal year were 29 Federal and 4 Pennsylvania Inspectors. 
Interceptions were made at the road posts of 98 lots of plant material or 
other products containing Japanese beetle Infestation. From these contraband 
products there were removed 184 larvae and to adults. This is a considerable 
Increase over the preceding year, when U2 larvae of the insect were collected. 
The largest number of Interceptions of Infested material was made at the 
Inspection station located just south of Fredericksburg, Va., on United states 
Route No. 1. Other stations at which numerous lots of Infested products were 
caught were located on United states Routes Nos. 50 and 211. west *^' Fairfax, 
\a . aid on United stales Highway No. K), west ^\ West Alexander, Pa. 
M:my important interceptions were made. Anion- them 16 Japanese beetle 
larvae wore removed from 50 potted plants en route from Wawa, Pa., to Lower 
