646 ANXUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



LIST OF CURRENT QUARANTINE AND OTHER RESTRIC- 

 TIVE ORDERS. 



QUARANTINE ORDERS. 



The numbers assigned to these quarantines indicate merely the chronological 

 order of issuance of both domestic and foreign quarantines in one numerical 

 series. The quarantine numbers missing in this list are quarantines which 

 have either been superseded or revoked. For convenience of reference these 

 quarantines ai-e here classified as domestic and foreign. 



DOMESTIC QUARANTINES. 



Date palms. — Quarantine No. 6: Regulates the interstate movement of date 

 palms and date-palm offshoots from Riverside County, Calif., east of the San 

 Bernardino meridian ; Imperial County, Calif. ; Yuma, Maricopa, and Pinal 

 Counties, Ariz. ; and Webb County, Tex. ; on account of the Parlatoria scale 

 (Parlatoria blanchardi) and the Phoeuicococcus scale (Plioenicococcua mar- 

 latti). 



Hatcaiian fruits. — Quarantine No. 13, revised: Prohibits or regulates the 

 importation from Hawaii of all fruits and vegetables, in the natural or raw 

 state, on account of the Mediterranean fruit fly and the melon fly. 



Sugar cnne. — Quarantine No. 16: Prohibits the importation from Hawaii and 

 Porto Rico of living canes of sugar cane, or cuttings or parts thereof, on 

 account of certain injurious insects and fungous diseases. 



Five-leafed pines, Ribes and Grossutaria. — Quarantine No. 26, as amended: 

 Prohibits the interstate movement of five-leafed pines, currant, and gooseberry 

 plants from all States east of and including the States of Minnesota, Iowa, 

 Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana to points outside of this area ; prohibits 

 further (1) the interstate movement of five-leafed pines and black-currant 

 plants to points outside the area comprising the States of Maine, New Hamp- 

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

 (2) to protect the State of New York, the movement from the New England 

 States, on account of the white pine blister rust. 



Sweet potato and yam. — Quarantine No. 30: Prohibits the movement from 

 the Territories of Hawaii and Porto Rico into or through any other Territory, 

 State, or District of the United States of all varieties of sweet potatoes and 

 yams (Ipomoea batatas and Dioscorea spp.), regardless of the use for which 

 the same are intended, on account of the sweet-potato weevil {Cylas formi- 

 carius) and the sweet-potato scarabee {Euscepes batatce). 



Banana plants. — Quarantine No. 32 : Prohibits the movement from the Ter- 

 ritories of Hawaii and Porto Rico into or through any other Territory, State, 

 or District of the United States of any species or variety of banana plants 

 (Musa spp.), regardless of the use for which the same are intended, on account 

 of two injurious weevils, Rhabdocnemis obscurus and Metamasius hem,ipterus. 



Black stem rust. — Quarantine No. 38 as amended : Prohibits the movement 

 interstate to any point outside of the quarantined area of the common bar- 

 berry and its horticultural varieties as well as certain other species of Berberis 

 and Mahonia. on account of the black stem rust of wheat, oats, barley, rye, and 

 many wild and cultivated grasses. 



European corn borer. — Quarantine No. 43 (second revision) as amended: 

 Regulates the movement interstate to any point outside of the quarantined 

 area of (1) corn and broomcorn (including all parts of the stalk), all 

 sorghums, sudan grass, celery, green beans in the pod, beets with tops, spinach, 

 rhubarb, oat and rye straw as such or when used as packing, cut flowers or 

 entire plants of chrysanthemum, aster, cosmos, zinnia, hollyhock, and cut 

 flowers or entire plants of gladiolus and dahlia, except the bulbs thereof, 

 without stems, from infested areas in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 

 and Rhode Island, and (2) corn and broomcorn (including all parts of the 

 stalk), all sorghums, and sudan grass from infested areas in New York, Penn- 

 sylvania, Ohio, and Michigan on account of the European corn borer (Pyrausta 

 nubilalis) . 



Gipsy moth and broion-tail moth. — Quarantine No. 45, as amended: Regulates 

 the movement interstate to any point outside of the quarantined towns and 

 territory, or from points in the generally infested area to points in the lightly 

 infested area, of stone or quarry products, and of the plants and the plant 

 products listed therein. The quarantine covers all the New England States. 



