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prevent the introduction into tlie United States of the disease 

 known as Potato wart, Potato canker or Black scab, and forbids 

 the importation into the United States from JSTewfoundland, 

 Islands of St. Pierre and Miguelon, Great Britain and Ireland, 

 Germany and Austria-Hungary, of the common Irish potato 

 (Solanum tuberosum). This is a very important quarantine for 

 these Islands, as most of our Irish potatoes are imported, and 

 what few potatoes are grown here ,are free from any very 

 serious disease. 



Quarantine No. 4, revised and amended as No. 10 and pub- 

 lished June 24, 1913, describes and quarantines the districts in 

 JSTew England infested by the Gypsy Moth and Brown Tail Moth, 

 and makes regulations governing the movement in interstate com- 

 merce of plants and plant products which may be infested from 

 the areas quarantined. 



Quarantine No. 5, published January 15, 1913, prevents the 

 introduction into the United States from Mexico of the insect 

 known as the Mexican fruit fly (Trypeta ludens), and prohibits 

 the importation from that country into the United States of 

 oranges, sweet limes, mangoes, sapotes, peaches, guavas and plums. 

 It was amended February 8, 1913, to in include also grapefruit 

 and its horticultural varieties. 



Quarantine No. 6 was published March 1, 1913, for the pur- 

 pose of preventing further distribution in the United States of 

 two serious date palm scale insects {Phoenico coccus m.a\rlatti and 

 Paralatoria hlanchardi). It quarantines certain counties in Cali- 

 fornia, Arizona and Texas, where these pests exist, and makes 

 regulations governing the interstate movement of date palms 

 grown within the areas quarantined. 



Quarantine No. 8 was published on May 28, 1913, to prevent 

 the introduction into the United States of the Pink Boll Worm 

 (Gelechia gossypiella) of cotton, and forbids the importation into 

 the United States of cotton seed of all species and varieties and 

 cotton seed hulls from any foreign locality and country, excepting 

 only the locality of the Imperial Valley in the State of Lower 

 California, Mexico. 



Quarantine No. 9 was published June 24, 1913, and applies 

 to the Territory of Hawaii and prevents the exportation of all 

 cotton seed and cotton seed hulls from this Territory into or 

 through any other State, Territory, or District of the United 

 States, also on account of the Pink Cotton Boll worm, which exists 

 in Hawaii. 



Quarantine No. 11 was published December 22, 1913, to pre- 

 vent the introduction into the United States of serious diseases of 

 the Irish potato, including the powdery scab (Spongospora suh- 

 terranea), known to exist in Canada, JSTewfoundland, the Islands 



