BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE 
Table 10. — Road-traffic inspection, fiscal year 1934 
31 
Month 
Trucks 
inspected 
Fruit passed, packed in boxes and baskets 
Fruit passed in 
Fruit 
re- 
Fruit 
Passed 
Not 
passed 
Grapefruit 
Oranges 
Total 
sacks 
turned conns- 
to cated 
area 
September.. 
Num- 
ber 
529 
573 
1,262 
1, 958 
2,132 
2,118 
2,118 
244 
Num- 
ber 


5 
2 
6 
i 
1 
Boxes 
6,175 
5,632 
11. 779 
13.410 
13, 474 
14, 843 
11,859 
1,247 
Bush- 
els 
40, 181 
34, 346 
66,404 
86, 199 
116,261 
108, 610 
92, 004 
8,777 
Bush- 
Boxes els 
76 6, 048 
109' 15, 194 
333| 48,205 
3, 6691100, 168 
4, 170 92, 365 
2, 838 89, 529 
5,201 93,450 
883 8, 475 
Boxes 
6,251 
Bushels 
46.229 
Num- 
ber 
207 
62 
56 
529 
352 
1,757 
3,241 
388 
Pounds 
15, 240 
4,960 
3,120 
30, 660 
26,290 
98, 740 
229, 585 
26,280 
Bush- 
els 
Bush- 
els 
October 
5,7411 49,540 
15,1121 114,609 
17, 079 186, 367 
17,644 208,626 
17, 681 1 198,139 
17, 060 185. 430 
2, 130i 17, 252 
November.. 
December... 
January 
February... 
March 
April 
192 
38 
16 
11 
11 
Total . 
10,934 
25 
81,419 
552, 782 
17,279 453,440 
98,698 1,006,222 
6,592 
434, 875 
230 38 
Two State laws, the Fruit Standardization Act and the Maturity Act, were 
in effect during the season, requiring the checking of trucks moving over the high- 
way for the enforcement of their provisions. Arrangements were made, there- 
fore, to have the inspectors at the road station enforce the regulations of the 
three organizations concerned. 
No reports were received of fruit trucks using the ranch roads to the northwest 
in leaving the valley, and therefore no patrols were placed on these roads. 
CENSUS OF FRUIT TREES 
In order to know the number of trees over which it is necessary to maintain 
supervision, a census is made each spring of the growing trees in the quarantined 
area. On account of the large number of trees killed by the storm of September 
4, a particularly close check was made of the trees this spring. The corrected 
figures show that there are in orchard form 8,201,211 citrus trees in the lower 
Rio Grande Valley in Texas, 203,529 fewer than were in orchard form on April 1, 
1933. The storm killed 580,419 trees, but this loss was partially offset by the 
planting of 376,890 trees during the period April 1, 1933, to March 31, 1934. 
The figures given above do not include the dead trees or the resets in groves in 
which only an occasional tree was lost, nor do they include 176,812 trees classified 
as noncommercial. The mortality among the trees will undoubtedly continue 
for some time. 
VIOLATIONS 
The usual minor infractions of the regulations were encountered and corrected 
during the year. Five reports from the transit inspectors of small shipments of 
fruit in violation of the regulations of the Mexican fruit fly quarantine were 
received and investigated. One attempt to smuggle storm-blown fruit by the 
road station was apprehended but, in view of the circumstances surrounding the 
case, the offender was released with a reprimand after being required to bury 
the contraband fruit. The nearest approach to a willful violation of the quaran- 
tine was the case of the owner of about an acre of trees in the Lyford community. 
This grower refused at the opening of the host-free period to remove from his 
i small amount of ripe and off-bloom fruit. He was finally prevailed upon 
to allow the State inspectors to clean the trees. 
INFESTATIONS IN MEXICAN TOWNS ALONG 1UK BORDEB 
The control work on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande was expanded during 
the year to include regular trapping operations in Reynosa, across from McAllen, 
Tex., and in a number o( ranches scattered along the river from Matamoros to 
Rio Rico. A number of traps were operated for a short time in Xuevo Laredo, 
across from Laredo, Tea Matamoros continued to be the center of control 
operations, as it received far more fruit from fly-infested districts of Mexico 
than any town directly across the Rio Grande from the citrus-growing area of 
Texas. 
