118 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
Domestic Plant Quarantines 
quarantines applying to the continental united states 
Date palms. — Quarantine No. 6, effective March 24, 1913, as amended ef- 
fective December 1, 1932: Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and 
regulations supplemental thereto, the interstate movement of date palms and 
date-palm offshoots from Riverside County, Calif., east of the San Bernardino 
meridian ; Imperial County, Calif ; Yuma, Maricopa, and Pinal Counties, Ariz. ; 
and Webb County, Tex., on account of the Parlatoria scale (Parlatoria 
blanchardi) . 
Black stem rust. — Quarantine No. 38, revised, effective August 1, 1931, as 
amended, effective February 20, 1935: Prohibits, except as provided in the rules 
and regulations supplemental thereto effective August 1, 1931, the movement 
into any of the protected States, namely, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, 
Wisconsin, and Wyoming, as well as the movement from any one of said pro- 
tected States into any other protected State, of the common barberry {Berberis 
vulgaris), or other species of Berberis or Mahonia or parts thereof capable of 
propagation, on account of the black stem rust of grains. The regulations place 
no restrictions on the interstate movement of Japanese barberry (B. thun- 
bergii) or any of its horticultural varieties, or of cuttings (without roots) of 
Mahonia shipped for decorative purposes. 
Gypsy moth and brown-tail moth. — Quarantine No. 45, effective July 1, 1920: 
Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
revised effective October 2, 1934, the movement interstate to any point outside 
of the infested area, or from points in the generally infested area to points in 
the lightly infested area, of stone or quarry products, and of the plants and the 
plant products listed therein. The quarantine covers Rhode Island and parts 
of the States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and 
Vermont. 
Japanese beetle. — Quarantine No. 48, revised, effective December 1, 1933: Pro- 
hibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
effective December 1, 1933, the interstate movement of (1) fruits and vegetables ; 
(2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock and other plants; and (3) sand, 
soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure, from the quarantined areas to or 
through any point outside thereof. The quarantined area includes the entire 
States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware, 
and the District of Columbia, and portions of the States of Maine, New Hamp- 
shire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West 
Virginia. 
Pink bolUcorm. — Quarantine No. 52, revised, effective December 23, 1933 : 
Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
effective December 23, 1933, and amended effective October 31, 1934, the inter- 
state movement from the regulated areas of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, 
Florida, and Georgia, of (1) cotton, wild cotton, including all parts of either 
cotton or wild cotton plants, seed cotton, cotton lint, linters, and all other 
forms of unmanufactured cotton fiber, gin waste, cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, 
cottonseed cake and meal; (2) bagging and other containers and wrappers of 
cotton and cotton products; (3) railway cars, boats, and other vehicles which 
have been used in conveying cotton or cotton products or which are fouled with 
such products; (4) hay and other farm products; and (5) farm household goods, 
farm equipment, and, if contaminated with cotton, any other articles. 
Satin moth. — Quarantine No. 53, revised, effective January 1, 1929: Pro- 
hibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
revised effective December 1, 1931, the interstate movement to points outside 
of the regulated areas in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island. Connecticut, and Washington, of all species or varieties of 
poplar and willow trees or parts thereof capable of propagation. 
Thurberia weevil — Quarantine No. 61, revised, effective August 1, 1927: 
Prohibits the interstate movement of Thurberia, including all parts of the 
plant, from any point in Arizona, and prohibits, except as provided in the 
rules and regulations supplemental thereto, effective October 2, 1933, the inter- 
state movement from the regulated area of Arizona of (1) cotton, including 
all parts of the plant, seed cotton, cotton lint, linters, and all other forms 
of unmanufactured cotton lint, gin waste, cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, and 
