67 



areas, especially in such long stretches of country as the valley of 

 the Rio Grande and its tributaries. 



HUNTINC; WILD FOWL IN PLANES FORBIDDEN. 



The director of military aeronautics has forbidden the shooting 

 of wild fowl with machine guns from airplanes and has directed 

 that airplane flights along the Atlantic coast or at any place 

 where migratory wild fowl may be found shall be conducted in 

 such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the habits 

 and feeding of the wild fowl. Conlmanding officers are instruct- 

 ed to use every means to carry out the regulations and to bring 

 to trial any offenders that may be guilty of breaking any of them. 

 Complaints of the shooting of wild fowl with machine guns from 

 airplanes were received some time ago by the Department of 

 Agriculture from several places along the Atlantic coast. The 

 attention of the War Department was called to the fact that such 

 shooting was in violation of the Federal migratory bird law en- 

 acted last year to give effect to the treaty between the United 

 States and Great Britain. — Weekly News Letter. 



New Quarantine on Plants 



The effective date — June 1, 1919 — of Plant Quarantine No. 37 

 will mark the operation of new and strict regulations governing 

 the importation into the United States of plants and plant pro- 

 ducts. The quarantine order has been promulgated by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture to check so far as possible the introduction of 

 more dangerous crop enemies. Experts of the Department of 

 Agriculture estimate that the losses caused by the pests already 

 introduced, for the most part through the agency of imported 

 plants, aggregate half a billion dollars annually. 



OUTSTANDING FEATURES SUMMARIZED. 



Important provisions of the new quarantine are as follows : 



Requires permits and compliance with regulations for importa- 

 tion of lily bulbs, lily-of-the-valley, narcissus, hyacinths, tulips, 

 and crocus; stocks, cuttings, scions, and buds, of fruits for propa- 

 gation ; rose stocks for propagation, including Manetti, Multi- 

 flora, Brier Rose, and Rosa Rugosa ; nuts, including palm seeds, 

 for propagation ; seeds of fruit, forest, ornamental, and shade 

 trees, seeds of deciduous and evergreen ornamental shrubs, and 

 seeds of hardy perennial plants. 



Leaves unrestricted, except in special cases, importations of 

 fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant products imported for 

 medicinal, food, or manufacturing purposes ; and field, vegetable, 

 and flower seeds. 



Excludes all other classes of plants for propagation, including 

 fruit trees, grapevines, bush fruits, grafted and budded roses, 

 forest, ornamental, and deciduous trees, ornamental and decidu- 

 ous shrubs, pine trees of all kinds, broad-leaved evergreens (such 



