88 ANNUAL REPORTS OP DEPARTMENT 01 AGBIOULTTJU, lfl 
ION 
All Importations of plants and plant products Bobjecl to plant-qnarantlne 
restrictions were Inspected at the port Of entry or the iM>rt of first arrival. A 
record of such Importations by ports appears in table ::•;. 
In addition to the Importation credited to the Mexican border ports, there 
several thousand Importations that were so small that no duty was 
3ed by customs and no entry made. All these small lots, however, were 
inspected, it was also oecessary to devote considerable time at several ports 
to the inspection of miscellaneous cargoes in order to establish the true status 
of the importation and to supervise the cleaning of shipments containing pro- 
hibited packing material or contaminated with objectionable material, such 
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Tabu .".0. — Inspection of shipment* of plants and plant products offered for 
entry, fiscal year 1935 
Port 
Ship- 
ments 
in- 
spected 
and en- 
tered 
under 
permit 
Ship- 
ments 
refused 
entry 
Port 
Ship- 
ments 
in- 
spected 
Rnd en- 
tered 
under 
permit 
Ship- 
ments 
refused 
entry 
Baltimore 
Nit m ber 
282 
71 
65 
1,490 
981 
541 
208 
147 
31 
1 
11 
526 
26 
1,163 
5,668 
224 
1,585 
449 
167 
79 
569 
3,929 
7 
65 
189 
Number 
1 

1 
1 



2 



6 




2 
48 



14 



Mobile 
Xumber 
81 
11 
1.S01 
11.901 
3,502 
162 

578 
3 
73 
80 
240 
4M 
41 

933 
130 
30 
613 
Number 

Bellingham 
Naco_-_ 

Blaine 
New Orleans.. 
3 
Boston.. 
New York 
152 
Brownsville 
3 
Buffalo 
Norfolk. 

Calexico 
Pensacola ' 

Charleston 
Philadelphia 

Chicago 
Port Arthur 

Corpus Christi ' 
Port Huron 2 

Del Rio 
Portland, Oreg 
2 
Detroit 

Doucrlas 
Puerto Rico fall ports) 
1 
Pass 
Rio Grande Citv 

El Paso.. 
Roma. -. 

C alvcs t on 
San Diego* 

Hidalgo 
34 
Honolulu '. 
San Pedro* 

Houston 
1 
Jacksonville ' . 
Basabe 3 

Key West ' 
Savannah 
1 
Laredo .. 
Seattle 
4 
1 
Tampa' 

Total 
Miami ' 
40. 692 
276 
Port closed Dec. 1, 1084. i Collaborators stationed at those ports. ' Port closed June 15, 1935. 
DISINFECTION 
Disinfection La required of certain commodities as a condition of entry 
and of other commodities when Inspection reveals the presence of injurious 
Insects or plant diseases. During the fiscal year the following plant material 
was treated under the supervision of Inspectors of this Bureau: Ootton, I 
bale-: cotton [inters, 82,256 bales; cotton waste, 64,571 bales: cotton samples. 
946; bagging, 827 bales; cottonseed hull fiber. 153 bales; broomcorn, 50,038 
bale-; rice liber. 4,313 bales J urapt-. 156,542 barrels and 9,314 ball' barrels 
and kegs; chestnuts, 5,087 cases and barrels; tree seeds, 36 cases, 13 bags, 
and .".'_'.") packages; miscellaneous plants. 878 lot-: narcissus bulbs Imported 
under special permit, 753,058; and bulbous Iris, 504,520. 
in addition to the above, there were treated at the Inspection house at Wash- 
ington, i>. «'., various shipments of plant material and cotton samples as shown 
in table 11. 
aikim. v\i: MSP1 I HON 
Three thousand one hundred and fifty airplanes arriving from foreign coun- 
tries and Hawaii were inspected during the fiscal year. These airplanes 
.hi- ed at the following 15 ports of entry: Calexico, Los Angeles, Ban D 
