60 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1934 
FOREIGN PARCEL-POST INSPECTION 
Through cooperation with customs and post-office officials, mail packages from 
foreign countries which are found to contain plants or plant products are referred 
to inspectors of this Bureau for examination. Such packages arriving at ports of 
entry where there are no representatives of this Bureau are forwarded by the 
postal officials to the nearest port at which a plant-quarantine inspector is 
stationed. 
Table 32 indicates by ports the number and disposition of foreign-mail packages 
inspected during the fiscal year. 
Table 32. — Number of inspections of foreign parcel-post packages, fiscal year 1934 
Port 
Atlanta L._. 
Baltimore.- 
Boston 
Brownsville 
Buffalo 
Chicago 
Detroit 
Douglas 
Eagle Pass.. 
El Paso 
Honolulu L. 
Jacksonville 
Key West i. 
Laredo 
Los Angeles 
Miami i 
In- 
Refused 
entry 
Divert- 
ed to 
spected 
(entire 
Wash- 
part) 
ington 
55 
2 
15 
925 
42 
63 
3,539 
174 
1,476 
704 
4 

48 
26 
7 
4,592 
526 
89 
3,825 
164 
264 
3 


218 
3 

657 
141 
60 
573 
25 
2 
457 
61 
108 
1 

1 
146 
21 
5 
4,482 
147 
1 
11 
9 
2 
Port 
Mobile 
Naco 
New Orleans 
New York 
Nogales 
Philadelphia 
Portland, Oreg 
Presidio 
Puerto Rico (all ports) 
St. PauH 
San Diego ' 
San Francisco ' 
Seattle 
Total 
In- 
spected 
1 
65 
127 
4,266 
215 
7,773 
16 
3 
6 
5,834 
24 
4,501 
1,891 
44, 958 
Refused 
entry 
(entire 
or in 
part) 
1 

25 
579 
19 
227 
9 

3 
302 
1 
232 
128 
2,871 
Divert- 
ed to 
Wash- 
ington 


39 
835 
1 
351 
8 


214 



3,541 
1 Collaborators are stationed at these ports. 
2 270 packages were diverted to San Francisco for treatment. 
MEXICAN-BORDER SERVICE 
The movement of railway cars showed a decided increase over that during the 
last fiscal year. A total of 17,592 freight cars was inspected in the Mexican 
railway yards. Of these 16,415 entered the United States, 5,408 being fumigated 
as a condition of entry. Seven hundred and eighty-six cars were found to be 
contaminated with cottonseed. Cleaning was required as a condition of entry. 
The usual fee of $4 was collected for each car fumigated, and all fees collected 
were covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
A summary of the railway-car inspection and fumigation is given in table 33. 
Table 33. — Inspection and fumigation of railway cars crossing the border from 
Mexico, fiscal year 1934 
Port 
Cars in- 
spected 
Cars with 
cottonseed 
Cars en- 
tered 
Cars fumi- 
gated 
Fees col- 
lected 
Brownsville 
Number 
262 
509 
1,886 
3,672 
7,131 
660 
3,410 
62 
Number 
33 
7 
127 
191 
265 
38 
107 
18 
Number 
246 
509 
1,770 
3,350 
6,721 
660 
3,097 
62 
Number 
16 
21 
613 
i960 
2,861 
1 
904 
43 
Dollars 
64 
Douglas.. 
84 
Eagle Pass 
2,300 
El Paso. 
4,568 
Laredo 
11, 160 
Naco 
4 
Nogales 
3,600 
Presidio • 
172 
Total.. 
17, 592 
786 
16, 415 
5,419 
2 21,952 
' Includes 11 cars not from Mexico. 
2 The apparent discrepancy in fees collected and the number of cars fumigated may be explained by the 
fact that it is customary for the railroads to purchase fumigation coupons in advance. 
