20 ANNUAL BEPOBT8 OF DEPABTMENT OF AGBIOULTUBE, 1 
treatments. Growers previously have been obliged to raise them for certifica- 
tion in screened greenhouses or in beetle-proof outdoor enclosures. Simplifica- 
tion of azalea treatments offers a valued outlet for these plants to many 
growers who heretofore have considered the conditions of certification t<K> 
rigid for compliance. Similar tests are being made with blueberry, holly, 
j'i mikiiiii'i. mid rhododendron plants. 
Supplemental distributions were made of the Japanese * Beetle Quarantine 
Shipper's Guide, although no new edition of the L r ui(lo wag as the 
territory under regulation remained unchanged. 
As a now departure in the service rendered to classified establishments, there 
was distributed to all such dealers a list showing the Durseiles and greenhouses 
complying with the classification requirements. Monthly supplements mailed to 
tie- dealers keep this Information current. A- classified dealer- whoso premises 
are infested art' required to report all their shipments Of quarantined material 
to other classified establishments within the regulated areas, this List was sup- 
plied to av..;d any noncompliance with this requirement due to lack of informa- 
tion as to those maintaining a classified status. 
CERTIFICATION OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND CUT FLOWERS 
Heavy flights of the beetle during the summer of 1934 a; a number of -pur 
tracks in New Jersey at which Large quantities of agricultural products 
Loaded in refrigerator cars made it necessary to intensify the methods Used to 
prevent such cars from becoming infested. A- booh as the cars were -potted 
for icing and loading, an inspector examined the Ice bunkers and interior of the 
car for live beetles. Upon completion Of the inspection and removal of any 
heetles present, the hatches of the ice hunkers and the doors of the car were 
closed and sealed until loading or icing began. If heetles were flying, the load- 
ing was delayed until the flight had subsided for the day. At (Ydarville, X. J., 
a special heetle-proof canopy sufficiently large to cover an entire truck was 
constructed. This canopy was moved up to the door of a refrigerator car and 
the intervening space between the car and canopy screened with loose mosquito 
netting. The truck load of certified products was then backed into the cage 
and a canvas curtain lowered over the open end of the canopy. Any .heetles 
present in the cage were killed with a contact insecticide applied from a hand 
sprayer. The doors of the car were then opened and the unloading proceeded. 
When one truck had unloaded. 1 ho doors of the car were closed until the next 
load hacked in. when the procedure was repeated until the car was completely 
Loaded. Pending construction of the canopy it was necessary temporarily to 
suspend from July 12 to 16 the shipmenl via refrigerator car of certified beans 
from the ( 'ed.irvifle siding. 
As adult beetles during their heav\ fiighl in Philadelphia were sufficiently 
abundant to reinfest Inspected commodities, the usual 24-hour daily inspection 
service in that city was discontinued from July 11 to August 13, 1934, and the 
hours of inspection were shortened to from i a. m. to 10 a. m. 
A- in 1933, green beans were again shipped in large quantities to drought- 
stricken midwestern markets from the bean-growing districts in southern New 
Jersey, in Morrisvillo and BustletOn, Pa., surrounding Baltimore, lfd\, and on 
the Eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia. All beans shipped under certifica- 
tion from these areas were run through cylindrical Inspection machines to rid 
them of beetles. Most of the 6,030 heetles removed from farm products Inspected 
during the season came from the 512,837 hampers of heans run through the 
machines. 
i disappearance of the adult beetle from agricultural sect ions producing quaran- 
tined unit- and vegetables led to the lifting, effective on and after September Id, 
of the seasonal restrictions on the movement of these articles. This action 
advanced by almost a month the October 16 date prescribed by the regulations 
for the termination of this particular regulatory activity. Cut flowers con- 
tinued to he likely carriers of the adult beetle, bo requirements for Inspection 
and certification of this COmmoditj Continued until tin" later date. 
r. ..i on !'■•"■ i observations, which Indicated the hazards of beetle spread 
peculiar to the movemenl of fruits and vegetables "f all kinds by refrigerator 
• trucks from sections of heavy Li testation to nonlnfested territory, there 
I sued, effective June 1, 1965, a thirteenth revision of the regulations to 
safeguard Buch commerce. Under the new regulations certification i- required 
for fruit- and vegetables "f all kinds when moved via truck or refrigerator car 
from the District of Columbia, and those parts <'f Delaware, Maryland, New 
Pennsylvania, and Virginia known to be continuously and, at peak 
