22 ANNUAL BBP0BT8 OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1 
Fruits, vegetables, moss, and cut flowers certified daring the seasonal Quaran- 
tine on these articles were as follows: 
Fruits it nd vegetable! package*— 4, 020, noo 
bale«__ 2. r.js 
Cut HowiTB packages-. 
Investigations irere made of 1,361 apparent violations of the Japanese I 
quarantine regulations. These included interceptions by transit inspectors «>f 
the Bureau stationed at postal and common-carrier terminals and by highway 
inspectors examining road vehicles, in the course of the year prosecutions 
were successfully terminated in the United States district courts against 2 
individual and '3 corporate violators. 
TRANSFER OF HEADQUARTERS 
Following transfer on September 10. 1034, of supervision of Dutcli elm 
disease eradication work to L, H. Worthley, field headquarters of the Bureau 
directing Japanese beetle quarantine enforcement was removed In November 
from Harrisburg, Pa., to White Plains, X. Y. The new field headquarters is 
strategically situated in the areas jointly affected by the Japanese beetle, Dutch 
elm disease, and European corn borer, and is conveniently located near the 
gypsy moth infested zone. 
COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISES 
Four Canadian officials attended a tour of the heavily infested southern 
New Jersey territory on July 16, 1934, and the Syracuse, N. Y., district super- 
visor made field observations on the Niagara peninsular district with the 
Canadian officials preliminary to their 1934 trapping program. Cooperation 
was again accorded the Canadian Department of Agriculture in purchasing 500 
Japanese beetle traps from a Philadelphia manufacturer. 
Limited numbers of traps were operated for control purposes under State or 
municipal auspices in Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode 
Island, and Massachusetts. 
State appropriations were available for Japanese beetle quarantine or control 
operations in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland. Massachusetts, New Jersey. 
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia. Trapping operations in 
Maine. Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri were financed from funds allotted by 
the respective States or cities in which the work was performed. 
INSECTS AFFECTING FOREST TREES 
COOPERATIVE SERVICE 
As in the past, one of the most important activities of the Division of 1 
insect Investigations has continued to he the cooperative service rendered to 
the several Federal agencies administering timberlands, such as the Forest 
Service, National Park S(U-vice, and Bureau Of Indian Affairs, as well as t<> 
such emergency agencies as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the conservation 
program of the National Recovery Administration, and the >helterbelt program. 
Private owners have also been aided, but to a lesser degree. This cooperative 
service, for the most part, consists in surveys of bark beetle infestation, esti- 
mates Of loss, recommendations as tO methods Of control, estimates of tht 
of such operations, and technical direction o\ control projects. It might be 
added that such duties have more than doubled within the last few years, 
owing to the increased activity in forest-insect control in Connection with 
emergency activities. 
CONTROL PROGRAMS 
MOUNTAIN PINK HI ITU : 
III California the epidemic of the mountain pine beetle which stalled in the 
STosemite National Park and adjacent forests in 1981 and took a heavy toll of 
the fine sugar pine has been brought under control. Other projects against the 
Same beetle in iodgepole pine stands in Crater Lake and Mount Rainier National 
Parks have been entirely successful. In the Rocky Mountain region the moun- 
tain pine beetle Still continues its alarming destruction in some areas, while in 
others it is on the wane. On the Occur d'Alene and Kootenai National Forests 
the control efforts begun in I960 have resulted in the preservation Of the 
valuable commercial white pine stands. 
