2 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-Marcli 
QUARANTINE AND OTHER OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERN- 
ING THE IMPORTATION OF COTTON AND COTTON WRAPPINGS INTO 
THE UNITED STATES 
INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS 
cotton and cotton wrappings — application for permits 
amended regulations governing the importation of cottofn and cotton wrap- 
pings into the united states (t. d. 39645 and t. d. 40573) (t. d. 49398) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Washington, February 7, 1938. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of an amendment to the regulations promulgated by the 
Department of Agriculture governing the importation into the United States 
of cotton and cotton wrappings is published for the information and guidance 
of customs officers and others concerned. 
The number of this Treasury decision should be noted as a marginal reference 
for articles 579, 580, 581 (e), and 583 of the Customs Regulations of 1937. 
James H. Moyle, 
Commissioner of Customs. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
B. E. P. Q. 395, Revised ; superseding B. E. P. Q. 383. 
March 18, 1938. 
LIST OF ARTICLES EXEMPT FROM CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
In accordance with the third proviso in Notice of Quarantine No. 48, as revised, 
the following articles, being considered innocuous as carriers of infestation, 
are exempted from the restrictions of this quarantine and of the rules and 
regulations supplemental thereto: 
1. Balsam pillows, when composed of balsam needles only. 
2. Banana stalks, when crushed, dried, and shredded. 
3. Dyed moss and dyed sand, when heat treated, and when so labeled on the 
outside of each container of such materials. 
4. Floral designs or "set pieces," including wreaths, sprays, casket covers, and 
all formal florists' designs. Bouquets and cut flowers not so prepared are not 
exempted. 
5. Greensand or greensand marl, when treated and so labeled on the outside 
of each container of such materials. 
6. Herbarium specimens, when dried, pressed, and treated, and when so labeled 
on the outside of each container of such materials. 
7. Manure, peat, compost, or humus (1) when dehydrated and either shredded, 
ground, pulverized, or compressed, or (2) when treated with crude petroleum 
or any other product having high potency as an insecticide, and when so labeled 
on the outside of each commercial container of such materials, or (3) peat when 
imported and shipped in the unopened original container and labeled as to each 
container with the country of origin. (See also item 15.) 
8. Moss, sheet (Calliergon schriberi) and (Thuridium recognitum) . 
9. Mushroom spawn, in brick, flake, or pure culture form. 
10. Orchids, cut. 
11. Orchid plants, when growing exclusively in Osmunda fiber. 
12. Osmunda fiber, Osmundine, or orchid peat (Osmunda cinnamomea, and 
O. claytoniana) . 
13. Resurrection plant or birdsnest moss (Sclaginella lepidophylla) . 
14. Silica sand or similar material, when processed by crushing, grinding, and 
dehydrating silica or other rock, and when so labeled on the outside of each 
