96 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
Since the Federal quarantine on the European corn borer was revoked on 
July 15, 1932, the Department has been inspecting and certifying products to 
meet requirements of various State quarantines on this pest. As a condition of 
movement into the State the various quarantines require inspection and 
certification of many kinds of products, such as corn, broomcorn, Sudan grass, 
chrysanthemums, asters, hollyhocks, dahlias, beets with tops, celery, beans, 
rhubarb, and oat and rye straw, which are likely to carry the corn borer from 
known infested areas. 
The work of the Department has been carried on with funds provided through 
annual appropriations made to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
for this purpose. Funds provided for the current fiscal year are less than one- 
half of the amount available during preceding years and are inadequate to pro- 
vide inspection necessary to give service throughout the fiscal year. Since July 
of this year, the inspection and certification work have continued without re- 
duction in efficiency, but available funds will be exhausted by December 31, 1941, 
when the work will be discontinued. 
Officials of the States having quarantines requiring that restricted products 
from the area where the corn borer occurs be certified by employees of the Depart- 
ment have advised the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine that their 
quarantines will be modified to accept such products upon certification by State 
officials. With these modifications in State quarantines there should be no 
interruption in normal movement of restricted articles or increase in pest risk. 
States or parts of States in the infested area are Connecticut, Delaware, 
Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, 
Xew Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, 
Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. States requiring Federal certification are 
Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, and Tennessee. Utah and Wyoming have 
embargoes against restricted materials. 
B. E. P. Q. 3S2, Revised, Supplement No. 2. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY 
December 26, 1941. 
Standards Established for Certain Seeds 
Although not a plant quarantine order, the following information may be of 
interest to exporters of the seeds concerned to Uruguay. It is quoted from the 
Foreign Commerce Weekly for December 13, 1941. 
VEGETABLE SEEDS: PURITY AND GERMINATION IMPORT STANDARDS ESTABLISHED 
"Standards for purity and germination for certain vegetable seeds imported 
into Uruguay have been established by a decree of October 29, 1941, published in 
the Diario Oficial, Xovember 14, 1941, Montevideo. The following are the 
required percentages of purity and germination, respectively: Chicory, endive, 
and carrots, 90 percent purity and 55 percent germination; onions, leeks, aniseed, 
celery, asparagus, peppers, watermelon, squash, artichoke, fennel, parsley, salsify, 
and spinach, 95 percent purity and 55 percent germination; beets, melon, cucum- 
ber, lettuce, cress, radishes, tomatoes, and eggplant, 95 percent purity and 70 
percent germination; and cabbage, chickpeas, cauliflower, turnip, lentils, beans, 
peas, broad beans, and sweet corn, 95 percent purity and 80 percent germination." 
P. N. Annand, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. -406, Revised, Supplement Xo. 3. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, BRITISH COLONY OF MALTA 
Xovember 19, 1941. 
Area Quarantined on Account of Colorado Potato Beetle Increased 
The 35th Supplement to the List of Prohibited Articles as published in the 
Bulletin of the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, July 15, 
