[Reprint of decision in re Potato quarantine/ 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



Office of the Secretary. 

 Federal Horticultural Board. 



Notice of Quarantine No. 11 (Foreign). 



Potato Quarantine. 



The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture that 

 injurious potato diseases, including the powdery scab {Spongospora sub- 

 terranea), new to and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within 

 and throughout the United States, exist in the Dominion of Canada, 

 Newfoundland, the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, Great Britain, 

 Ireland, and Continental Europe, and are coming to the United States 

 with imported potatoes. 



Now, therefore, I, David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, 

 under the authority conferred by section 7 of the act of Congress approved 

 August 20, 1912, known as ''The Plant Quarantine Act" (37 United 

 States Statutes at Large, page 315), do hereby declare that it is necessary, 

 in order to prevent the introduction into the United States of such potato 

 diseases, to forbid the importation into the United States, from the coun- 

 tries hereinbefore named, of the common or Irish potato (Solanum tubero- 

 sum) until such time as it shall have been ascertained, to the satisfaction 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture, that the country or locality from which 

 potatoes are offered for import is free from such potato diseases.. 



On and after December 24, 1913, and until further notice, by virtue 

 of said section 7 of the act of Congress approved August 20, 1912, the 

 importation, from the countries hereinbefore named, of the common or 

 Irish potato, except for experimental or scientific purposes by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, is prohibited: Provided, That shipments of such 

 potatoes loaded prior to December 24, 1913, as shown by consular invoices, 

 will be permitted entry up to and including January 15, 1914. 



Done at Washington this 22d day of December, 1913. 



Witness my hand and the seal of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



David F. Houston, 

 Secretary of A griculture. 



[For further ''Notices," Amendments, etc., on this topic apply to 

 the Federal Horticultural Board, U. S. Dept. Agric, Washington, D. C] 



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