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ending June 30, 1929. Of this number, more than 55 per cent were shipped by 
persons having no previous knowledge of the quarantine restrictions. Sixty- 
two per cent of the violations by commercial concerns, and 80 per cent of those 
by other consignors were moving by parcel post and most of the remainder 
were shipped by express. Violations by nurserymen decreased from 131 in the 
spring of 192S to 61 during the present season, a decrease largely due, in all 
probability, to the modilication of a former regulation which required the label- 
ing of containers to show contents. One shipment of black currants from 
Canada was found in transit in violation of Federal quarantine No. 7 pertain- 
ing to the importation of blister-rust host plants from foreign countries. During 
the course of inspection, one of the inspectors at Chicago intercepted a ship- 
ment of Pinus ponderosa diseased with a rust known as Pcridermium harknessi 
which is not believed to be established in the eastern United States. The ship- 
ment was consigned from a Pacific Coast State into New York. 
State inspectors reported 7 violations of the blister-rust quarantine and 2 of 
the narcissus-bulb quarantine, while Federal inspectors not regularly engaged 
in transit inspection found 13 violations of the former quarantine and 1 of 
the latter. 
Table 12 summarizes the violations of the various domestic quarantines inter- 
cepted by transit inspectors during the first six months of the calendar year 
1929. 
Table 12. — Shipments intercepted by white-pine blister-rust inspectors, January 1 
to June 30, 1929 
Commer- 
Quarantinc cial 
shippers 
Noncom- 
mercial 
shippers 
Quarantine 
1 
Commer- 
cial 
shippers 
Noncom- 
mercial 
shippers 
No. 38— Black stem rust 1 8 
No. 43.— European corn borer. is 24 
No. 45. — Gipsv moth and 
No. 66.— Asiatic beetles 
Violations of both No. 48 and 
No. 66 
4 
f;i 


67 
brown-tail moth 5 
17 
1? 
Violation of both No. 52, 
Pink bollworm, and No. 61, 
No. 48.— Japanese beetle 3 
No. 53.— Satin moth 
1 
No. 62.— Narcissus bulb 1 37 
No. 63. — White pine blister 
Total 
1«3 
244 
rust 61 
77 
In addition to the figures given in Table 12, the transit inspectors at New 
York City stopped 19 intrastate shipments moving in New York in violation 
of the Japanese-beetle quarantine established by that State to protect its un- 
infested areas. Shipments found moving in violation of Federal quarantines 
are systematically turned back, this practice in itself often constituting no small 
penalty, at least in the case of commercial shipments. Prosecutions .ire also 
instituted when the situation justifies that action. 
Table 13 gives the number of shipments inspected at the various stations. 
Table 13. — Shipments inspected for violations of Federal quarantines, January 1 
to June 30, 1929 
Station 
Parcel 
post 
Freight 
Total 
Chicago 
Kansas City 
Omaha and Council Blufls 
New York 
St. Paul 
Denver 
Ogden.. 
Portland 
Seattle 
Spokane. 
Total. 
49, 615 
7,831 
3,244 
701 
36,650 
2,717 
797 
7,683 
1,841 
831 
3,820 
1,687 
2,209 
400, 362 56, 000 
1,672 
439 
70 
517 
2> 
120 
402 
3, 802 
212,684 
57,880 
10,087 
37,042 
5, 102 
20, 7iy 
