BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE 
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CARGO INSPECTION 
All importations of plants and plant products subject to plant-quarantine 
restrictions were inspected at the port of entry or the port of first arrival. A 
record of such importations by ports appears in table 31. 
Table 31. — Inspection of shipments of plants and plant products offered for entry, 
fiscal year 1934 
Port 
Baltimore 
Belliugham 
Blaine 
Boston 
Brownsville.. . 
Buffalo 
Calexico 
Charleston 
Chicago 
Corpus Christ i 
Del Rio 
Detroit 
Douglas 
Eagle Pass 
El Paso 
Fabens 
Galveston 
Hidalgo 
Honolulu i 
Houston 
Jacksonville L. 
Key West L... 
Laredo 
Mercedes 
Miami ■ 
Mobile 
Ship- 
ments 
inspected 
and en- 
tered 
under 
Ship- 
ments 
refused 
entry 
permit 
209 

71 

68 

1,529 

455 

330 
2 
165 

134 

30 
1 
2 

15 

278 
6 
20 

729 

5,098 

73 

376 

110 

340 
52 
203 
1 
44 

547 

2,8S4 

512 

80 

71 

Port 
Xaco 
New Orleans 
New York 
Nogales 
Norfolk 
Pensacola » 
Philadelphia 
Port Arthur.-- 
Port Huron • 
Portland, Oreg 
Presidio 
Providence > 
Puerto Rico (all ports) . 
Rio Grande City 
Roma 
San Diego ■ 
San Francisco ' 
San Pedro ' 
San Ysidro 
Sasabe 
Savannah 
Seattle... 
Tampa ' 
Total. 
Ship- 
ments 
inspected 
and en- 
tered 
under 
permit 
3 
1.568 
. 
1. 576 
270 
1 
445 
1 
75 
44 
338 
13 
515 
42 
50 
1 
1.009 
607 
90 
1 
106 
304 
32, 333 
SI ip- 
refused 
entry 
112 
i Collaborators are stationed at these ports. 
2 Work handled by inspectors stationed at Boston, Mass. 
In addition to the importations credited to the Mexican border ports there 
were several thousand importations which were so small that no duty was assessed 
by customs and no entry made. 
Disinfection is required as a condition of entry of certain commodities and of 
other commodities when inspection reveals the presence of injurious insects or 
plant diseases. The following plant material was treated under the supervision 
of inspectors of this Bureau during the fiscal year: Cotton, 137,506 bales; cotton 
linters, 2,997 bales; cotton samples, 672; cotton waste, 41,426 bales; bagging, 
1,868 bales; chestnuts, 10,864 cases; tree seeds, 39 bags, 207 packages, and 24 
; broomcorn, 34") bales; miscellaneous plants, 219 lots; narcissus bulbs im- 
ported under special permit, 183,304; and bulbous iris, 7S,50t>. 
It has also been necessary to devote considerable time at several ports to the 
inspection of miscellaneous cargoes in order to establish the true status oi the 
importations and to supervise the cleaning by importers of shipments containing 
prohibited packing material or contaminated with objectionable material such as 
soil. 
AIRPLANE INSPECTION 
Three thousand and fifty-one airplanes arriving from foreign countries were 
inspected during the fiscal year. The inspections were made at the ports of 
Brownsville, El Paso, and Laredo, Tex.; Nogales, i alexieo, San Diego, 
and Los Angeles, Calif.; Miami, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, Fla.; Seattle, 
Wash.; and San Juan, P. R. A total of 923 interceptions of prohibited plant 
material was made. 
