1932] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 91 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING IN REFERENCE TO THE EXCLUSION, OR RESTRICTION 
ON THE ENTRY, OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS USED AS PACKING MATERIALS, 
FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND LOCALITIES 
August 31, 1932. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that certain injurious plant 
diseases and insect pests, not now present or not widely prevalent or distributed 
within and throughout the United States, exist in various foreign countries and 
localities, and that their introduction into or spread within the United States 
may result from the movement thereinto of certain plants and plant products, 
to wit: 
Rice straw and rice hulls, from all countries; wheat straw, chaff, and hulls, 
from all countries known to have flag smut; cereal straw, chaff, and hulls in 
general (wheat, oats, barley, rye, emmer, spelt) from all countries; corn and 
allied plants (maize, sorghum, broomcorn, Sudan grass, Johnson grass, napier 
grass, Job's tears, teosinte, Polytoca, Sclerachne, Chionachne), all vegetative 
parts, from all countries; cotton and cotton products (lint, waste, seed cotton, 
cottonseed, and cottonseed hulls) from all countries; sugarcane, all parts includ- 
ing bagasse, from all countries; bamboo, leaves and small shoots, from all coun- 
tries; willow twigs, from all countries of Europe; leaves of plants, from all 
countries; forest litter, from all countries; grasses, hay, and similar indefinite 
masses of weeds and herbaceous plants, from all countries; earth containing 
an appreciable admixture of vegetable matter, except peat, from all countries; 
when used as packing materials for other commodities shipped therefrom. 
It appears necessary, therefore, to consider the advisability of forbidding or 
restricting the importation of the plants and plant products specified from the 
said foreign countries and localities when used in the manner aforesaid so as to 
prevent the introduction into or spread within the United States thereby of the 
plant diseases and insect pests referred to. 
Notice is, therefore, hereby given that, in accordance with the plant quarantine 
act of August 20, 1912, as amended, a public hearing will be held before the 
Bureau of Plant Quarantine of the United States Department of Agriculture, in 
the auditorium of the United States National Museum, Tenth Street and Con- 
stitution Avenue NW., Washington, D. C, at 10 a. m., October 26, 1932, in 
order that any person interested in the exclusion or restriction of the above- 
mentioned materials may appear and be heard, either in person or by attorney. 
C. F. Marvin, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING IN REFERENCE TO THE EXCLUSION, OR RESTRICTION 
ON THE ENTRY, OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS USED AS PACKING MATERIALS, 
FROM THE TERRITORIES OF HAWAII AND PUERTO RICO 
August 31, 1932. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that certain dangerous plant 
diseases and insect pests, not now present or not widely prevalent or distributed 
within or throughout the United States, exist in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and 
that their introduction into or spread within the continental United States may 
result from the movement thereinto of certain plants and plant products, to wit: 
Rice straw and rice hulls; cereal straw, chaff, and hulls in general (wheat, 
oats, barley, rye, emmer, spelt) ; corn and allied plants (maize, sorghum, broom- 
corn, Sudan grass, Johnson grass, napier grass, Job's tears, teosinte, Polytoca, 
Sclerachne, Chionachne) all vegetative parts; cotton and cotton products (lint, 
waste, seed cotton, cottonseed, and cottonseed hulls); sugarcane, all parts in- 
cluding bagasse; bamboo, leaves and small shoots; leaves of plants; forest 
litter; grasses, hay, and similar indefinite masses of weeds and herbaceous 
plants; earth containing an appreciable admixture of vegetable matter, except 
peat; when used as packing materials for other commodities shipped therefrom. 
It appears necessary, therefore, to consider the advisability of quarantining 
the said Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, so as to prevent the introduction 
into, or spread within, the continental United States, by such means, of the 
plant diseases and insect pests aforesaid. 
Notice is, therefore, hereb3 7 given that, in accordance with the plant quaran- 
tine act of August 20, 1912, as amended, a public hearing will be held before the 
Bureau of Plant Quarantine of the United States Department of Agriculture in 
the auditorium of the United States National Museum, Tenth Street and Con- 
stitution Avenue NW., Washington, D. C, at 10 a. m., October 26, 1932, in 
order that any person interested in the establishment of such quarantine may 
appear and be heard, either in person or by attorney. 
C. F. Marvin, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
