4S SIXTEEXTH BIENNIAL REPORT 



United States Department of Agriciilture, Notice of Quarantine No. 26 



The fact has lieeii determined by tlie Secretary of Agriculture tliat it is 

 iieeessary, in orrter to prevent the further spread of a daiigerous plant disease 

 known as the White Pine Blister Rust ( Peridermium strobi Kleb.), not heretofore 

 widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United States, to 

 quarantine all states east of and including the states of iMinnesota, Iowa. Mis- 

 souri, Arkansas and Louisiana. 



Now. therefore, I, David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, under the 

 authority eonferred by Section 8 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 

 (37 Stat., 315), as amended by the Act of Congress approved March 4. 1!)17 

 (Public No. 390, 64th Congress), do hereby quarantine all the states east of and 

 including the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and 

 by this Notice of Quarantine No. 26 do order that no five-leafed pines. or currant 

 or gooselierry plants (Ribes and Grossularia) shall be moved or allowed to 

 move Interstate to points outside the quarantined area ; and, further, that no 

 five-leafed pines or lilack currant plants shall Ije moved or allowed to move 

 Interstate to points outside the area comprising the states of Maine, New Hamp- 

 shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. 



Restrictions now or hereafter enforced by any State on the entry into such 

 State of the plants named in this quarantine are in no wise affected liy this 

 quarantine. 



This qviarantine shall not apply to the movement by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of the plants named for experimental or scientific purposes. 



This notice of quarantine shall become and be effective on and after June 1, 

 .1917. 



Done at Washington this twenty-first day of April, 1917. 



Witness my band and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



D. F. HOUSTON, 

 '• Secretary of Agriculture. 



United States Department of Agriculture, Amendment No. 1 to Notice of 



Quarantine No. 26 



The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture that it is 

 necessary, in order to prevent the further spread of a dangerous plant disease 

 known as the White Pine Blister Rust ( Peridermium strobi Kleb. ) , not hereto- 

 fore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United States, 

 to quarantine immediately the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. 



Now, therefore, I, David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, under the 

 authority eonferred by Sectiou S of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 

 (37 Stat, 315), as amended by the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 

 (Public No. 390, 64th Congress), do hereby amend Notice of Quarantine No. 26, 

 promulgated April 21, 1917, effective on and after June 1, 1917, and by this 

 amendmeut do order that from and after the date hereof no five-leafed pines 

 or black currant plants shall be moved or allowed to move Interstate to points 

 outside the area comprising the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. 



Done at Washington this first day of May, 1917. 



Witness my band and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



D. F. HOUSTON, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



