1934] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 23 
B.P.Q.-346 (Revised Mar. 15, 1934) March 15, 1934. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER 
State Regulations 
The following is a summary of the current quarantines relating to the European 
corn borer, of which notices have reached this Bureau from the various States. 
Since the summary was revised in March 1933 new regulations on the part of 
Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, and revisions of former regulations on the part of 
Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin have been issued, which 
place no requirements on vegetables and floral plants shipped from Indiana, 
Michigan, and Ohio. The regulations of these eight States, with the exceptions of 
Kansas and Nebraska, also exempt from any requirements, during a part of the 
year, green corn and certain floral plants from any of the infested States. The 
part-year exemption also applies to beans, beets, and rhubarb in the regulations 
of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. A recent revision of the Utah quarantine 
places a complete embargo on the restricted articles from the infested States, 
and a quarantine by Idaho dated February 15, 1933, has reached this Bureau, 
which provides for acceptance of State certification of such articles. 
This compilation is not intended to be used independently of or as a substitute 
for the quarantines and is not to be interpreted as legally authoritative. It 
should also be understood that the Bureau is not in a position to give explanatory 
information concerning State quarantines. Inquiries as to the interpretation of 
such restrictions, or requests for the full text of orders, should be addressed to the 
appropriate official of the State concerned. (See list of State officials on p. 29.) 
To secure a Federal certificate required under regulations of certain States as 
shown in the summary, inspection may be arranged by addressing the Bureau of 
Plant Quarantine, 2101 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, Pa. For the State 
certificate, address the plant quarantine officer or State nursery inspector of 
your own State. 
Wherever the term " certificate" is used in the following summary, it refers to a 
special certificate showing that the articles have been inspected and found free 
from the European corn borer. A general State nursery inspection certificate 
does not fulfill the requirements with respect to these quarantines. 
SUMMARY OF REGULATIONS 
Method of use. — In using the following summary it is suggested that the 
shipper mark in the second column (with a colored pencil or otherwise) the State 
from which he ships, wherever it occurs in the column. Also in column 3 the 
group number of the articles he expects to ship wherever he finds they are entered. 
Column 4 shows whether a State or Federal certificate may be used, and the 
nature of other restrictions or exemptions. For example, it will be seen that a 
Connecticut florist shipping cut flowers of gladiolus must attach a certificate of the 
United States Department of Agriculture for shipments to Arizona, California, 
Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, and Oregon; that a State certificate is 
acceptable for shipments to a number of other States; that a part-year exemption 
from any certification or other requirement is provided in shipments to Indiana, 
Michigan, and Ohio; and that these flowers are not admissible to Utah or Wyo- 
ming from the quarantined States under any condition. 
The kinds of articles restricted vary somewhat and they are accordingly 
arranged in groups in a list given at the top of each page. The designation of the 
classes of beans covered, however, shows so much diversity among the different 
State orders that the exact phraseology is given in the third column after each 
State name. 
