BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
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and San Francisco, Calif.: Nogales, Ariz.; Miami, Tampa, and West Palm 
Beach, Fla. ; San Juan, P. R. ; Brownsville, Eagle Pass, El Paso, Laredo, 
and Presidio, Tex. ; and Seattle, Wash. A total of 918 interceptions of pro- 
hibited and restricted plant material were taken from 537 airplane-. 
FOREIGN PARCEL-POST INSPECTION 
Through cooperation with customs and post-office officials, mail packages 
from foreign countries which are found to contain plants or plant products 
are referred to inspectors of this Bureau for examination. Such packages 
arriving at ports of entry where no plant quarantine inspectors are stationed 
are forwarded by the postal officials to the nearest port where inspection can 
be made. 
Table 37 indicates by ports the number and disposition of foreign mail 
packages inspected during the fiscal year. 
Table 37 includes shamrocks, which are permitted entry through the mails 
provided they are free from soil. It has not been the policy to include such 
importations in the annual reports for the past few years but, inasmuch as they 
represent a considerable amount of work, it seems desirable that they now 
be shown. Of the number of packages listed above as inspected, the following 
represent shamrocks : Boston, 8,550 ; Chicago, 4,885 ; Detroit. 640 ; Los Angeles, 
388 ; New York, 31,509 ; Philadelphia, 3.581 ; St. Paul, 561 ; San Francisco, 748 ; 
and Seattle, 128. 
Table 
37. — Foreign parcehpost packages inspected, fiscal year 1935 
Port 
Inspected 
Refused 
entry 
(entire 
or in 
part) 
Diverted 
to Wash- 
ington 
Port 
Inspected 
Refuse d 
entry 
(entire 
or in 
part) 
Diverted 
to Wash- 
ington 
Atlanta l 
Number 
42 
2,400 
10, 306 
595 
67 
8,830 
4,351 
335 
884 
441 
560 
629 
4,949 
40 
1 
Number 
3 
64 
87 
13 
25 
491 
161 
2 
157 
19 
75 
42 
148 
38 
1 
Number 
18 
226 
806 
17 
7 
270 
257 
2 
26 

90 
3 

1 

Number 
58 
237 
45, 908 
423 
10,314 
18 
3 
8,174 
70 
5,428 
1,634 
753 
Number 

20 
1,536 
23 
324 
6 
1 
156 

224 
92 
13 
Number 

Baltimore 
New Orleans 
New York 
99 
Boston.. 
2,401 
5 
Brownsville 
Nogales 
Buffalo 
Philadelphia 
Portland, Oreg. 3 .-. 
Puerto Rico (all 
733 
Chicago 
1 
Detroit 
Eagle Pass 

El Paso 
St. Paul i— 
158 
Honolulu i 
Jacksonville ' 
Laredo 
San Diego « * 
San Francisco > 
Seattle 


2 
Los Angeles 12 
Washington, D. C. 
Total 
Mobile 
107, 450 
3,721 
5,122 
1 Collaborators are stationed at these ports. 
1 394 packages diverted to San Francisco for treatment. 
» 8 packages diverted to Seattle for treatment. 
* 1 package diverted to San Francisco for treatment. 
MEXICAN-BORDER SERVICE 
The increase in the movement of railway cars from Mexico which took place 
during the fiscal year 1934 continued during the fiscal year 1935. A total of 
30,736 freight cars were inspected in the Mexican railway yards. Of this 
number 28,422 entered the United States and 6,841 were fumigated as a condi- 
tion of entry. This represents an increase of 74+ percent in the number of 
cars inspected, 73+ percent in the number of cars that entered, and 26+ 
percent in the number of cars fumigated over the fiscal year 1934. Of the 
total number inspected, 1,507 cars were found to be contaminated with cotton- 
seed. Cleaning was required as a condition of entry. The usual fee of $4 
was charged for each car fumigated and all fees collected were covered into 
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. A summary of the railway-car inspec- 
tion and fumigation is given in table 38. In addition to the freight cars listed 
in table 37, 4,368 Pullman and passenger coaches crossed the border and were 
inspected. 
