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the enforcement of its domestic quarantines. This is particiUarly 

 true of our white pine blister rust quarantines. 



CONVICTIONS FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE PLANT QUARANTINE ACT. 



During: the year the solicitor of the department reported 49 con- 

 victions for violations of the plant quarantine act, 11 in regard to 

 the gipsy moth and brown-tail moth quarantine, 34 in regard to 

 the white pine blister rust quarantine, 2 in regard to the Mediter- 

 ranean fruit fly and melon fly quarantine, and 1 each in regard to 

 the European corn borer quarantine and the avocado or alligator 

 pear quarantine. Fines aggregating $1,920 and costs were imposed. 



NEW AND REVISED PLANT QUARANTINES. 



The following quarantines and other restrictive orders have been 

 either promulgated or revised during the period, July 1, 1922, to the 

 date of the preparation of this report, October 1, 1923 : 



Domestic quarantines. — The European corn borer quarantine, 

 amended July 28, 1922, September 2, 1922, November 16, 1922, and 

 March 26, 1923 ; the Mediterranean fruit fly and melon fly quarantine,, 

 revised October 9, 1922; the black stem rust quarantine, amended 

 December 26, 1922; the white pine blister rust quarantine (No. 54), 

 amended March 2, 1923 ; the pink bollworm quarantine, revised May 

 19, 1923, and amended October 8, 1923 ; the Japanese beetle quaran- 

 tine, revised April 9, 1923 ; and the gipsy moth and browntail moth 

 quarantine, amended June 6, 1923, and August 21, 1923. 



Foreign quarantines. — The nursery stock, plant, and seed quaran- 

 tine, amencled October 13, 1922, and December 18, 1922, and revised 

 April 5, 1923; the European corn borer quarantine, revised August 

 4, 1923; the seed or paddy rice quarantine, promulgated July 17» 

 1923; and the fruit and vegetable quarantine, promulgated August 

 1, 1923. 



Other restrictive orders. — Regulations governing the importation 

 of cotton and cotton wrappings into the United States, revised 

 February 24, 1923; and regulations governing the importation of 

 potatoes into the United States, amended January 17, 1923 (with- 

 drawn February 13, 1923). 



The Federal Horticultural Board is now enforcing 22 foreign and 

 15 domestic quarantines. 



A list of the domestic and foreign quarantines and other restrictive 

 orders as now in force follows. 



