18 PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [Jan.-Mar. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO WHITE-PINE BLISTER-RUST 
QUARANTINE (NO. 63) 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF EITHER RE- 
VOKING THE DOMESTIC WHITE-PINE BLISTER-RUST QUARANTINE OR OF 
REVISING THE REGULATIONS TO DESIGNATE THE STATES OF DELAWARE, IOWA, 
MARYLAND, OHIO, VIRGINIA, AND WEST VIRGINIA, AND THE DISTRICT OF 
COLUMBIA, AS INFECTED WITH THAT DISEASE 
February 18, 1932. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that the white-pine blister rust, 
a dangerous plant disease not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within - 
and throughout the United States, which has been known for some time to exist 
in portions of the States of Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, 
Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsyl- 
vania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, has recently been 
discovered in the States of Iowa, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia, 
It appears necessary, therefore, to consider the advisability either (1) of modi- 
fying or revoking the Federal domestic quarantine (No. 63) on account of this 
disease or (2) of extending to the States named the restrictions which apply to 
movement from infected States, and of restricting accordingly the interstate 
movement of 5-leaved pines and currant and gooseberry plants from the said 
States. Consideration will also be given to the advisability of extending such 
restrictions to the State of Delaware and to the District of Columbia which are 
surrounded by infected States. Other modifications of the regulations will be 
given consideration at the same hearing. 
The purpose of this quarantine has been to retard the interstate spread of 
the white-pine blister rust during the investigation of methods of control and 
the dissemination of information as to such methods, to protect blister-rust con- 
trol areas from the replanting of currant and gooseberry bushes, to prevent the 
establishment of new centers of infection with commercial shipments of infected 
nursery stock, and to encourage the development of sources of 5-leaved pine 
nursery stock free from blister-rust infection. It is desired at this conference 
to consider (1) whether the investigations and other activities have reached 
such a stage that the Federal quarantine restricting the interstate movement of 
5-leaved pine trees and currant and gooseberry plants can now be removed, 
(2) whether the continued spore spread by wind carriage and other natural 
means has been so extensive that further expenditure of funds by the Federal 
Government for administration and by shippers for compliance with the regu- 
lations is justified, and (3) whether the State plant quarantine organizations 
of uninfected States and of States having legally established blister-rust control 
areas can hereafter satisfactorily provide any needed protection under State 
authority. 
Notice is therefore hereby given that in accordance with 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), a public hearing will be held 
before the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration in the auditorium of 
the Natural History Building, United States National Museum, Tenth Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, D. C, at 10 a. m., March 26. 1932. in 
order that any person interested in the proposed discontinuance of the quaran- 
tine or in the possible extension or modification of the regulations may appear 
and be heard either in person or by attorney. 
Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS ADDRESSED TO PLACES IN ARKANSAS 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
Washington, February 27, 1932. 
Postmasters in the State of Arkansas are informed that the list of plants 
and plant products now subject to terminal inspection in Arkansas has 
been extended to include : " Sweetpotato, onion, tomato, and cabbage, and other 
cruciferous plants, but excluding other herbaceous plants of all kinds, as well 
as seeds, bulbs, and roots." 
