76 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
Instructions to Collectors of Customs 
Revised Regulations Supplemental to Rice Quarantine No. 55, Revised, 
Governing the Importation of Seed and Paddy Rice, Published in T. D. 
46S09, Amended (T. D. 47229) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Washington, D. C, August 21, 1934. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of amendment no. 1 to the rules and regulations supple- 
mental to Notice of Quarantine No. 55 (rice quarantine) issued by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture, effective August 1, 3934, permitting the importation of 
rice straw and rice hulls, with treatment as a condition of entry, at approved 
ports, is published for the information and guidance of customs officers and 
others concerned. 
Frank Dow, 
Acting Commissioner of Customs. 
(Then follows the full text of the amendment.) 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO SUGARCANE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 15) 
SUGARCANE QUARANTINE REVISED 
(Press notice) 
September 24, 1934. 
A revision of Quarantine 15, which will regulate importation of bagasse, the 
fibrous refuse from sugarcane mills, was announced today by Secretary of 
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. The revision, which becomes effective October 
1, provides for the importation of specific lots of bagasse under conditions 
judged by the Department to be safe. 
The original measure, put into effect June 6, 1914, shut out all living canes 
of sugarcane or cuttings thereof from all foreign countries, except such as were 
imported by the Department itself for use in its cane-improvement program. 
Such importations have been made with unusual care to avoid the introduc- 
tion of numerous foreign insects and diseases, and a special quarantine green- 
house at the Arlington Farm is devoted entirely to making foreign cane varie- 
ties safe to distribute to our cane areas. 
A recent increase in inquiries regarding the introduction of foreign bagasse 
has convinced the Department that the danger of pest introduction in this 
material, especially if distributed into cane-growing areas, is important enough 
to justify bringing bagasse as well as other cane parts under control. 
REVISION OF SUGARCANE QUARANTINE NO. 15 (FOREIGN) 
introductory note 
The principal aim in this revision is to bring under the quarantine bagasse 
and other parts of the sugarcane plant in addition to living canes, for the 
reason that such materials are regarded as effective carriers of cane diseases, 
and the importation of foreign bagasse and other plant parts of sugarcane, 
especially into our cane-growing areas, would subject our cane cultures to a 
definite and unnecessary risk. The former exemption of Hawaii and Puerto 
Rico is not continued because it seems desirable to provide Federal authority 
,for control over foreign importations into these Territories. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
