6G 
ANNUAL BEPO DEPABTMBNT OF AGRICTJLTUBB, 1935 
White pine blister nisi Infectloii was found on b white pine being shipped 
lM ;in »"i'»»--t-i State, it la altogether probable that other shipment* imcr- 
nsit inspection carried injurious plam pests onder quarai 
A thorongh examination of plants and soil In such shipments would clou 
furnish Interesting and valuable Information as to the present ts but 
the time pi transit Inspectors can be employed more profitably in determining 
whether the numerous shipments passing through the terminals during the 
day j ha . d heen ^spected and certified at origin In compliance with quarantine 
Many of the Important stations where transit Inspection Is carried on are 
equatelj manned, and a few strategic points through which freight ex- 
press, and parcel-post shipments are consigned to extensive and important 
agricultural areas are totally without Inspection becaus • Bmall amount 
of funds appropriated for this project. 
Active cooperation Is rendered by several of the States in which ti 
inspection is conducted. The Btate Inspectors engaged In the work are 
appointed collaborators of the Department The adequate enforcement of 
Federal plant quarantine regulations Is vital to State protection and 
ration should be extended to other points bow worked only by Federal 
Inspectors. In such cooperative work, the transit Inspectors report to the 
state authorities shipments of nursery stock moving without State nursery 
inspecti.-n certificates or with invalid or expired certificates, although such 
shipments are not intercepted and returned because of the a tutory 
authority. As the direct result of several years of this work, a continued 
decrease is noted In the number of noncertified shipments moving through 
transit-inspection points. 
In tables 20 and 21 it will he noted that during the fiscal year 1935, - 
shipments were Inspected for quarantine compliance at 25 points and that 
1.740 were found moving in apparent violation of Federal quarantine regula- 
tions. The tables include not only stations where Federal Inspection ; s main- 
tained, but also stations worked cooperatively with the states, and with other 
projects of the Bureau. Year-round inspection with a full-time force was 
carried on only at Boston. Chicago, Jacksonville, New York. Philadelphia, 
Washington, D. C. Inspection during nursery-stock shipping seasons was 
maintained at Kansas City. Omaha, St. Paul. Portland, Oreg., Seattle, and 
Spokane. The Pittsburgh work did not begin until May 1. Other point- in 
the table represent either part-time cooperative inspection or places where 
only a few days' work was done to determine the status of a city as a transit- 
Inspection point. 
Tabu 20. — Summary of shipments of nursery stock and other idant* and plant 
products inspected in transit during the fiscal in ar (935 
Station 
Atlanta 
Boston 
Chicago 
Cincinnati.. 
eland... 

Detroit.... 
Fort Worth. 
Indianapolis 
•i villo. 
City 
Mempl 
Milwaukee.. 
Shipments 
Carloads 
Ku mber 
•i. 228 
X umber 
■',:. 186 
102,480 
67 
208 
10, 2. r .:i 
10,642 
nu 
83 
14,692 
87, is: 
I 
Station 
Shipments C 
Xew York 
Omaha and Council 
Bluffs 
Philadelphia 
Pittsbur 

St. Louis... 
st Paul and Minn* 
Seattle 
Sj>okane 
WasMngtOKL 
Total ... 
Xumbrr 
137.054 
i- 
87.178 
10,048 
'umber 
U 
1 
27 
1881081 
1 Waybill Information. 
• Of « in- above shipment are consigned by pared pi 
