1932] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 39 
all importations of plants authorized under regulation 14 shall be addressed to 
the United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine and Control 
Administration, at the port designated in the permit. In addition to the 
address, as indicated, such shipments shall be marked with the permit number 
and name of the importer. (For detailed instructions relative to entry con- 
ditions of such shipments, see P. Q. C. A. — 249, p. 4.) 
All nursery stock and other plants and seeds offered for import must he free 
from sand, soil, or earth, and all plant roots, rhizomes, tubers, etc., must be 
freed by washing or other means from such sand, soil, or earth : Provided, 
That this requirement shall not apply to plants imported from Canada under 
regulation 15 : Provided further, That sand, soil, or earth may be employed 
for the packing of bulbs and corms when such sand, soil, or earth has b^en 
sterilized or otherwise safeguarded in accordance with the methods prescribed 
by the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration and is so certified by the 
duly authorized inspector of the country of origin. The use of such sand, soil, 
or earth as packing for plants other than bulbs and corms is not authorized. 
All packing materials employed in connection with importations of nursery 
stock and other plants and seeds are subject to approval as to such use by the 
Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. Snch packing material must 
not previously have been used as packing or otherwise in connection with living 
plants, and except as provided in the preceding paragraph for bulbs and corms, 
must be free from sand, soil, or earth, and must be certified as meeting these 
conditions by the duly authorized inspector of the country of origin. 1 
If a package of nursery stock and other plants and seeds offered for entry 
includes any prohibited article, or if any of the plants have not been freed from 
earth, the entire package may be refused entry. 
This amendment shall be effective on and after July 1. 1982. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of June, 1932. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. 
[SEAL.] 
Arthur M. Hyde. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO PINK-BOLLWORM QUARANTINE 
(NO. 52) 
MODIFICATION OF PINK-BOLLWORM QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
In the following amendment, a new method of using roller equipment for 
the compression of cotton lint or linters under the provisions of the pink boll- 
worm quarantine regulations is approved. Amendments No. 2 and Xo. 3 are 
incorporated herein and are superseded by this order. 
Lee A. Strong. 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 52 
(Approved May 20, 1932 ; effective June 15, 1932) 
Under authority conferred by the plant quarantine act of August 20. 1912 
(37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4. 1917 
(39 Stat. 1134, 1165). it is ordered that regulation 5 of the revised rules and 
regulations supplemental to notice of quarantine No. 52, on account of the 
pink boll worm, which were promulgated December 26,. 1929, be, and the same 
is hereby, amended to read as follows: 
*For detailed instructions relative to pat-kins materials, including sterilized soil for 
bulbs and corms. see HB-132, revised June 8, 1921. 
