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Snow, high winds, subzero temperatures, and impassable roads were responsi- 
ble for a decrease in the quantity of material inspected throughout the regulated 
areas during February and March. Nursery shipments were completely sus- 
pended, and all activities in wood lots and quarries were either discontinued or 
greatly curtailed until the weather moderated in April. 
Nursery stock certified for movement from the regulated areas totaled 80 
carloads, 1,683 truck loads, and 27,700 individual containers. In the course of 
the inspection of this stock, 9 gypsy moth egg clusters and 5 larvae were removed 
from 3 carloads, 2 truck loads, and 4 individual shipments. 
Permits were issued for the movement of 3,467 individual or bulk lots of quaran- 
tined products brought into the regulated areas for reshipment to noninfested 
territory. Two hundred and sixty-three firms or individuals dealing in products 
manufactured, processed, or stored in a manner to eliminate all possible infesta- 
tion, shipped under permit during the fiscal year 30,939 bulk or individual lots 
of restricted materials. 
All the spare time of inspectors not occupied in actual inspection and certifi- 
cation was utilized in infestation surveys in the vicinity of nurseries and tourist 
camps in their respective districts. Inspections were made of 443 camps. Gypsy 
moth infestations were observed in 137 of these camps, and winter webs of the 
brown-tail moth were found in 41 camps. The necessity for the destruction of 
the infestation was called to the attention of the manager of each infested property. 
SCOUTING IN LIGHTLY INFESTED AREA 
Late in May, six temporary inspectors made a rough field survey of towns 
in the lightly infested area of Maine adjacent to the generally infested section of 
the State. An average of 12 hours' scouting was performed in each of 46 towns. 
Large numbers of egg clusters were noted in a strip of territory approximately 
three towns wide, north of the generally infested zone of Maine. 
ROAD PATROL 
Road-patrol operation on the principal exit highways leading from the lightly 
infested area of Connecticut began on April 14. Permanent stations on the 
Boston Post Road and the principal entrance highway to New Haven from Hart- 
ford and Meriden, were supplemented by two mobile patrols covering a total of 
8 less-frequented highways. These line stations were discontinued on May 26. 
The principal westbound-exit highways were thus guarded during the peak of the 
1934 spring nursery-shipping season. While the road-inspection work was in 
progress, inspections were made of 13,992 vehicles, 1,341 of which were found to 
be transporting uncertified quarantined products. 
VIOLATIONS 
Through personal visits by district inspectors or correspondence with the 
consignors and agents of the common carriers involved, investigations were made 
of 230 apparent violations of the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth quarantine 
intercepted by transit inspectors of the Department. A few of the violations 
occurred through unintentional carelessness on the part of a commercial shipper. 
Approximately two-thirds of the uncertified shipments were made by private 
individuals who were uninformed of the requirements for certification. In the 
absence of evidence of deliberate attempts to evade the inspection requirements, 
no legal action was instituted in any of the cases investigated. 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE AND CONTROL 
CONDITIONS OF INFESTATION 
Marked deficiencies in rainfall during June and July 1932, contributed to 
notable reductions in the 1933 populations of adult Japanese beetles {PopiUia 
japonica Newm.) in some heavily infested sections. Similar unfavorable climatic 
conditions were factors in the disappearance of many small isolated infestations 
determined in 1932, and in the reduced numbers in which adults reappeared in 
other scattered infestations. 
In the formerly heavily infested section of Philadelphia the reduction in beetle 
population was pronounced. Reduced infestation from the swarm conditions 
of former years was also apparent in various sections of I he continuously infested 
territory in east-central New .Jersey. Intense foliage damage was found in a 
large part of southern New Jersey, in a localized east-and-west band across the 
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