1932] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 57 
Regulation 3. Control of Movement of Currant and Gooseberry Plants 
(a) No European black-currant plants (Ribes nigrum) and no plants of the 
wild native western species known as R. bracteosum and R. petiolare shall be 
moved or allowed to be moved interstate in the continental United States except 
into or within the area comprised in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, 
Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, 
South Dakota, and Texas. 
(b) No currant or gooseberry plants of any species or variety shall be moved 
or allowed to be moved interstate from an infected State or District unless they 
have either been dipped (except the roots) immediately prior to shipment in 
lime-sulphur solution of a strength of 4.5° B. 1 , or are shipped in a dormant and 
defoliated condition. Such lime-sulphur dip shall be plainly visible on said 
plants and be easily detectable by odor, the judgment of the inspector to be 
final as to adequacy of the dip and as to the condition of the plants as to dor- 
mancy and defoliation. 
(c) No currant or gooseberry plants of any species or variety shall be moved 
or allowed to be moved interstate into any of the States of Connecticut, Idaho, 
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, 
or Vermont, unless the container shall bear on the outside thereof a control- 
area permit issued by an inspector designated to act for the Bureau of Plant 
Quarantine in such State. (See Appendix.) Such permits may be issued on 
condition that the plants are destined for points outside the legally established 
blister-rust control areas of the States concerned. 
(d) Except as provided in paragraphs (a) and (c) hereof, currant and goose- 
berry plants may be shipped from noninfected States to any destination with- 
out restriction under these regulations. 
Regulation 4. Marking Requirements 
(a) Every car, box, bale, or other container of articles for which certificates or 
permits are required by these regulations shall be plainly marked with the name 
and address of the consignor and the name and address of the consignee, and 
shall bear attached to the outside thereof the proper certificate or permit issued 
in compliance with regulation 2 or 3 hereof. 
(6) The certificates or permits in the case of carload and other bulk shipments 
shall accompany the waybills, conductors' manifests, memoranda, or bills of 
ading pertaining to such shipments. 
Regulation 5. Provision for Inspection of Nursery Stock and Other 
Plants in Transit 
Any car, vehicle, box, bale, or other container moved interstate or offered to a 
common carrier for shipment interstate, which contains or which the inspector 
has probable cause to believe contains articles the movement of which is pro- 
hibited or restricted by these regulations, shall be subject to inspection by an 
inspector at any time or place. 
Regulation 6. Cancellation of Permits 
Permits issued under these regulations may be withdrawn or canceled and fur- 
ther permits refused, either upon determination of blister-rust infection on the 
premises on which the articles concerned are or have been located, or for any 
failure of compliance with the conditions of these regulations or violation of them 
or of the permittee's agreement, or whenever in the judgment of the Bureau of 
Plant Quarantine the further use of such permits might result in the dissemina- 
tion of the white-pine blister rust. After any such permit is withdrawn or 
canceled the further use of any permit tags issued thereunder is prohibited. 
Regulation 7. Shipments by the United States Department of 
Agriculture 
Articles subject to restriction in these regulations may be moved interstate by 
the United States Department of Agriculture for experimental, educational, or 
scientific purposes on such conditions and under such safeguards as may be pre- 
scribed by the Bureau of Plant Quarantine. The container of articles so moved, 
1 Prepare this solution by diluting 1 part of commercial concentrated lime-sulphur solution of 32° B 
with 8 parts of water. 
