56 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1934 
Table 29. — Fruits and vegetables imported fiscal year 1984, by ports of entry — Con. 
Kind 
Port and quantity- 
Total 
Turnip ...pounds 
Vaccinium (cranberry, etc.): 
Natural do.. 
Frozen do. . 
Water caltrop do... 
Waterchestnut do... 
Watercress do... 
Waterlily root ..do... 
Waterlily seed pod... do... 
Watermelon do... 
Yam do 
Yam bean root. do 
Boston, 33,000; Calexico, 311; Douglas, 51; Eagle Pass, 
120; El Paso, 317,109; Naco, 5; New York, 20; 
Nogales, 6,924. 
Boston, 15.500: Chicago, 149,000; New York, 297,943; 
Port Huron, 173,600; San Francisco, 8,250. 
Boston, 1,123,590; Detroit, 108,000; New York, 
1,728,090; Port Huron, 404,940; Sault Ste. Marie, 
51,600. 
Boston, 300; Hawaii (all ports), 4,330; Los Angeles, 
15; New York, 1,600; Niagara Falls, 300; San Fran- 
cisco, 7,700; Seattle, 1,300. 
Blaine, 300; Boston, 50,420; Buffalo, 104,085; Chicago, 
50,000; Detroit, 10,000; Hawaii (all ports), 110,913; 
Los Angeles, 102,100; New York, 276,840; Niagara 
Falls, 87,386; Portland, 11,000; San Francisco, 
600,280; Seattle, 485,478. 
Calexico, 65; Douglas, 300; Eagle Pass, 5; Naco, 21; 
Nogales, 4,616. 
Hawaii (all ports), 50; New York, 40,946; Niagara 
Falls, 200; Portland, 1,298; San Francisco, 6,160; 
Seattle, 11,120. 
New York, 166 
Brownsville, 49,860; Calexico, 1,061,027; Douglas, 
1,515; Eagle Pass, 141; El Paso, 12,500; Hidalgo, 
139,750; Key West, 1,800; Laredo, 4,100; Mercedes, 
253; Miami, 2,500; Naco, 230; New Orleans, 26,010; 
New York, 188,210; Nogales, 39,293; Rio Grande 
City, 158; Roma, 1,600; San Ysidro, 2,220. 
Hawaii (all ports), 42,636 
El Paso, 470; Hawaii (all ports), 1,910; Laredo, 60; 
Los Angeles, 1,000; New York, 700; Nogales, 1; 
San Francisco, 16,200. 
357, 540 
644, 293 
416, 220 
15, 545 
5,007 
59, 774 
166 
531, 167 
42, 636 
20, 341 
PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS ENTERED FOR EXPORTATION OR FOR 
TRANSPORTATION AND EXPORTATION 
In addition to the regulated imports for consumption entry recorded in tables 
16 to 29, this Bureau supervised the entry under permit, either for exportation 
or for transportation and exportation, of considerable quantities of plants and 
plant products, as follows: Flower bulbs, corms, and tubers, 397,113; fruit 
trees, 30,452; cacti and succulents, 2,489; orchids, 1,140; miscellaneous plants, 
11,478; miscellaneous seeds, 299 pounds; apples, 10,161 pounds; avocados, 1,936 
pounds; beans, lima, 800 pounds; beans, string, 9,254 pounds; cauliflowers, 
42 pounds; chestnuts, 20,421 pounds; Citrus medica, 100 pounds; cucumbers, 
22,450 pounds; eggplants, 57,250 pounds; garlic, 1,230,175 pounds; ginger root, 
380 pounds; grapes, 191,080 pounds; grapefruit, 11,423,885 pounds; kudzu, 100 
pounds; lemons, 5,154,290 pounds; lily bulbs (edible), 1,200 pounds; limes, sour, 
8,525 pounds; melons, 704 pounds; okra, 700 pounds; onions, 10,799,862 pounds; 
oranges, 1,381,414 pounds; peas, 397,579 pounds; peppers, 90,778 pounds; pine- 
apples, 125,005 crates; potatoes, 10,511 pounds; sweetpotatoes, 1,000 pounds; 
tamarind bean pods, 15,320 pounds; tangerines, 2,480 pounds; tomatoes, 
15,752,989 pounds; waterchestnuts, 1,210 pounds; waterlily root, 439 pounds; 
broomcorn, 910 bales; brooms made of broomcorn, 1,200; corn, shelled, 1,285,602 
pounds; cotton, 62,728 bales, including 1,421 bales of linters and 31 packages; 
cotton waste, 267 bales and 5 packages; cottonseed cake, 1,422,000 pounds; 
cottonseed meal, 186,412 pounds; seed or paddy rice, 403,488 pounds; rice straw, 
15 bales; and wheat, 5,500 pounds. 
MARITIME-PORT INSPECTION 
SHIP INSPECTION 
Ships from foreign countries and from Hawaii and Puerto Rico are inspected 
promptly upon arrival for the presence of restricted or prohibited plant material. 
The inspection at ports in California, Florida, Hawaii, and at certain ports in 
Puerto Rico has been performed by State and Territorial officials serving as 
collaborators of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
A record by ports of the ship inspection appears in table 30. 
