50 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 194 4 
minimizing 1 1 it* likelihood of spread of the pink bollworm to domestic 
plantings in the Cotton Belt. All west-coast Locations and many 
Keys were covered three times. The Cap*- Sable area, in which many 
plants OCCUr, and the other keys were covered twice. In all. 20,425 
plants with mature bolls and 297,519 current year seedlings, a total of 
r>2G.044 plants, were destroyed. This was a reduction of m arly 11.000 
in the number of plants maturing bolls, as compared with the 1943 
season. Since the inception of wild-cotton eradication in Florida, a 
total of 1G.429.G71 plants have been removed. 
DOG FLIES CONTROLLED AT ARMY AIR FORCES BASES 
To prevent serious interruptions of military training programs 
along the Gulf coast of northern Florida, the United State- Army 
Air Forces for the third consecutive season provided fund- for the 
control of outbreaks of dog flies (stableflies) in this area in the sum- 
mer and fall of 1943. By spraying the breeding places of the flies — 
beach deposits of marine grasses — with 25 percent of creosote in bay 
water along 562 miles of shore line, the fly populations were greatly 
reduced and military operations were permitted to function normally. 
The United States Public Health Service cooperated in the work. 
A similar program was being conducted in the summer of 1944. 
TRANSIT INSPECTION 
Because of citrus sterilization requirements in the Rio Grande 
Valley of Texas during the spring of 1944. additional transit inspec- 
tors were assigned at gateways from the valley for several months. 
Intensive inspection of shipments of restricted fruit leaving the valley 
resulted in interception of 339 apparently unsterilized shipments. 
Throughout the year inspection was conducted at IS transfer points 
strategically located with respect to movement of restricted articles 
by common carrier from areas regulated by Federal dome-tic plant 
quarantines. There were examined 1.234.471 mail, express, and 
freight shipments: 2.22G apparent violations of 7 of the 9 Federal 
domestic plant quarantines and 38 violations of the District of Co- 
lumbia plant-shipping regulations were reported. Six hundred and 
eight apparent violations of state quarantines, including those per- 
taining to phony peach and peach mosaic diseases and the sweetpotato 
weevil, were reported to State officials, 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF MAIL SHIPMENTS 
The State- maintaining terminal inspection of mail shipments of 
plants and plant products under the procedure carried out in cooper- 
ation with the Post Office Department, which provides for turning 
back or disinfecting shipments it" found infected, are Arizona. Cali- 
fornia, Florida, Idaho. Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, 
Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. The District of Colum- 
bia, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico also maintain this procedure. The 
States th.it have availed themselves of the provisions of the terminal- 
inspection procedure for the enforcement of their. plant quarantines 
air Arizona, Arkansas, California. Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi, 
Montana, and ( Oregon. 
