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Table 2. — Tons of citrus fruit sterilized in Texas, fiscal years 1939-1944 
Fiscal year 
High-temperature 
method 
Low-temperature 
method 
Grapefruit 
Oranges 
Grapefruit 
Orange.s 
1939.. 
44, 150 
8, 927 
9, 937 
3,619 
23, 394 
62, 372 
2.25 
. 75 



26 

298.6 
53.6 



1 
2. 1 
168.8 




1940.. 
1941 
1942... 
1943.. . 
1944 . 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE AND CONTROL 
TRAP SCOUTING IN NONREGULATED TERRITORY 
Trapping to determine the spread of the Japanese beetle in 1943 
largely paralleled that of the previous year. With the necessity for 
conservation of traps and labor, most of the act ivities were confined to 
localities in which combined trapping and soil-treating work had been 
carried on in previous years, or in which incipient or appparently 
negligible infestations had been discovered. This left a few traps for 
setting in localities not previously trapped. From the 55.354 inexpen- 
sive scout traps used in 1942 it was possible to salvage 41,993 for the 
current year's activities. As in 1942, trapping was performed in 17 
States, but the number of localities was reduced from 242 to 161. 
Beetles were captured in 107 communities, in 12 of them for the first 
time. 
An important development of the year was the discovery of a heavy 
infestation at Blowing Rock, N. C, in the mountains in the northwest - 
ern section of the State. Over 17,000 beetles were trapped at this 
point, which is remote from any other known infestation. At Hender- 
sonville, N. C, where 1,718 beetles were trapped in 1942, only 785 
beetles were collected this season. Beetles were collected in 17 other 
North Carolina localities where they had been trapped in previoiis 
years. 
Cooperative Federal-State trapping in Maryland showed relatively 
heavy infestations in Hancock, Hughesville. and Siebert, in addition to 
four other negligible infestations in the nonregulated area. 
In New York State trap captures in Canandaigua, Dunkirk. Lyon-. 
Medina, Newark, North Tonawanda, and Plattsburg were of a tVw 
beetles each. Infestations persisted in Avon, Jamestown, Silver 
Creek, and Waterloo. In Newark and Niagara Falls, where treatments 
had been applied in previous years, the captures were reduced to 1 and 
71 beetles, respectively, compared with G5 and 21G beetles in 1942. 
Beetles collected at Geneva and Ogdensburg indicate increased infest a 
t ion there. Trapping in Westfield disclosed 27 beetles. 
In Ohio negligible first-record collections were made at Fostoria, 
Fowlers Mill, Lima, and Willard. In Bellevue. East Conneaut. Gal- 
li polis. Rockbridge, and South Zanesville fewer beetle- were turned up 
than in 1942. Increases were noted in Ashtabula and Marietta. The 
remaining infestations persisted at about the 1942 level. 
In Pennsylvania trapping was limited to a group of traps in Green- 
ville, where 14 beetles were caught. 
