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HatcaUan and Porto Rican cotton, cottonseed, and cottonseed products. — 

 Quarantine No. 47 : Regulates the movement of cotton, cottonseed, and cotton- 

 seed products from Hawaii and Porto Rico on account of the pink boUworm and 

 the cotton blister mite, respectively. 



Japanese bee«e.— Quarantine No. 4S, revised : Regulates the movement inter- 

 state to anj' point outside of certain portions of the counties of Mercer, Bur- 

 lington, Gloucester, and Camden, N. J., and certain portions of the counties of 

 Delavpare, Chester, Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Bucks, Pa., of the follow- 

 ing articles: (1) The interstate movement of green, sweet, or sugar corn; cab- 

 bage, lettuce, and grapes; and unthreshed grains, straw, and forage crops, 

 •originating in the farm-products area is prohibited between June 15 and 

 October 15, inclusive, except as to direct shipments from the point of production, 

 namely, from the point where grown or a local packing house, to the point of 

 ■destination outside of the farm-products area and under inspection and certifi- 

 cation. The products enumerated may move interstate without restriction be- 

 tween October 16 and June 14, inclusive; (2) the interstate movement of soil, 

 ■compost, and manure from the farm-products area is prohibited except where 

 absolute freedom from infestation is determined by an inspector of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, or when such soil, compost, or manure has been 

 •disinfected or treated under the supervision and to the satisfaction of such 

 inspector; (3) the interstate movement of nursery and ornamental stock, except 

 bulbs and cut flowers, originating within the Japanese beetle area to any point 

 outside the farm-products area, except under inspection and certification, 

 is prohibited, on acount of the Japanese beetle {PopilUa japonica). 



United States quarantined to protect //ait-aif.— Quarantine No. 51 : Regulates 

 the movement from the United States to the Territory of Hawaii, as ships' 

 stores or as baggage or effects of passengers or crews, of sugar cane, corn, 

 •cotton, alfalfa, and the fruits of the avocado and papaya. 



Pink bollworm. — Quarantine No. 52, with revised rules and regulations : Pro- 

 hibits the interstate movement from the regulated areas of Texas, Louisiana, 

 and New Mexico of cotton, including all parts of the plant, seed cotton, cotton 

 lint, linters, gin waste and all other forms of cotton lint, cottonseed, cotton- 

 seed hulls, cottonseed cake and meal, bagging and other containers of the 

 articles enumerated, and also railway cars, boats, and other vehicles which 

 have been used in conveying cotton and cotton products grown in such regu- 

 lated areas or which are fouled with such products, farm products other than 

 hay, farm household goods, and farm equipment, except as provided in the 

 rules and regulations supplemental thereto, on account of the pink bollworm of 

 •cotton (Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders). 



Satin moth. — Quarantine No. 53 : Prohibits the interstate movement to points 

 outside of the infested areas in New Hampshire and Massachusetts of all 

 species or varieties of poplar and willow on account of the satin moth (Stilp- 

 notia salicis L.). 



White-pine blister rust. — Quarantine No. 54, as amended : Prohibits the move- 

 ment from the State of Washington of five-leafed pines, currant and gooseberry 

 plants, on account of the white-pine blister rust. 



FOREIGN QUARANTINES. 



Irish potatoes. — Quarantine No. 3 : Prohibits the importation of the common 

 or Irish potato from Newfoundland ; the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon ; 

 Oreat Britain, including England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland ; Germany ; and 

 Austria-Hungary, on account of the disease kown as potato wart. 



Mexican fruits. — Quarantine No. 5, as amended : Prohibits the importation of 

 oranges, sweet limes, grapefruit, mangoes, achras sapotes, peaches, guavas, and 

 plums from the Republic of Mexico, on account of the Mexican fruit fly. 



Five-leafed pines, Ribes, and Orossularia. — Quarantine No. 7, as amended : 

 Prohibits the importation from each and every country of Europe and Asia, 

 and from tlie Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland, of all five-leafed pines 

 and all species and varieties of the genera Ribes and Orossularia, on account 

 of the white-pine blister rust. 



Cottonseed and cottonseed hulls. — Quarantine No. 8, as amended: Prohibits 

 the importation from any foreign locality and country, excepting only the lo- 

 cality of the Imperial Valley, in the State of Lower California, Mexico, of cotton 

 seed (including seed cotton) of all species and varieties, and cottonseed hulls, 

 on account of the pink bollworm. Cotton and cottonseed from the Imperial 

 Valley may be entered under permit and regulation. 



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