68 SIXTEENTH BIENNI AL REPORT 



QUAKANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN CORN BORER AND 

 OTHER DANGEROUS INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES 



Notice of Quarantine No. 41, vvith Regulations 



The fact has lieen determiued by tbe Secretary of Agriculture, and notice is 

 hereby giveu, that dangerous plant pests, including the so-called European corn 

 borer (Pyrausta nubilalis Hubn.), and also other dangerous insects, as well as 

 plant diseases not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and through- 

 out the United States, exist, as to one or more of such pests, in Europe, Asia, 

 Äfrica, Dominion of Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and other 

 foreign coutries and localities. and may be introduced into this country through 

 importations of the stalks or other parts of Indian corn or maize, broom corn 

 and related plants. 



Now, therefore, I. E. T. Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture, under the authority 

 conferred by the Act of Congress approved August 20, 1912, known as the Plant 

 Quarantine Act (37 Stat, 315), do hereby declare that it is necessary, in order to 

 prevent the further introduction of the dangerous plant pests mentioned aliove, 

 to forbid, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental hereto, 

 the importation into the United States from all foreign countries and localities 

 of the stalk and all other parts, whether used for packing or other purposes, in 

 the raw or unmanufactured State, of Indian corn or maize (Zea Mays L.), broom 

 corn (Andropogon sorghum var. technicus). sweet sorghums (Andropogon Sor- 

 ghum), grain sorghum (Andropogon sorghum), Sundan grass (Andropogon Sor- 

 ghum sudanensis), Johnson grass (Andropogon halepensis), sugar cane (Saccha- 

 rum officinarum), including Japanese varieties. pearl millet (Pennisetum 

 glaucum), napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum), teosinte (Euchalaena luxur- 

 ians), and Job's tears (Coix lachryma-Jobi). 



Hereafter, and until further notice, by virtue of said Act of Congress ap- 

 proved August 20, ini2, the importation into the United States of the stalk and 

 all other parts of the plants enumerated above from all foreign countries and 

 localities, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental hereto, 

 is prohibited. 



Done in the District of Columbia this 21st day of February, 1920. 



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



[Seal] E. T. MEREDITH, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Rules and Regulations Supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 41, Governing 



the Importation of Indian Com or Maize, Broom Corn 



and Related Plants 



Regulation 1. Sorghum Hay, Grain and Seeds for Which Permit Is not Re- 

 quired,. Sorghum hay from Canada, and clean shelled or threshed grain (from 

 any country) of the plants covered in this quarantine, except as to such grain 

 or seeds covered by special quarantine and other restrictive Orders now in force, 

 or such as may hereafter be made subject to special quarantines, may be imported 

 without permit or other compliance with these regulations.* 



Regulation 2. Broom Com for Manufacturing Purpo es Permitted Entry under 

 Regulation. The importation of broom corn for manufacturing purposes inay be 

 permitted under the conditions hereinafter set forth in these regulations. 



* The entry of the following plants and plant prorluets is prohibited or restricted by 

 specific quarantines and other restrictive Orders now in force : 



(a) Living canes of sugar cane, or cuttings or parts tliereof, including seed from all 

 foreign countries. 



(b) Seed and all other portions in the raw or unmanufactured State of Indian corn 

 or maize (Zea mays L. ), and the closely related plants, including all species of Teosinte 

 (Euchlaena), Job's tears (Coix), Polytoca, Chionachne and Sclerachne, from South- 

 eastern Asia (including India, Slam, Indo-China and China), Malayan Archipelago, 

 Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Philippine Islands, Formosa, Japan and adjacent 

 Islands. 



