1938] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS Q\ 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Posimaster General, 
Washington, July 8, 1938. 
Quarantine Order No. 63 of the United States Department of Agriculture on 
account of the white-pine blister rust has been revised effective July 1, 193S, so 
as to modify the restrictions on the interstate movement of five-leaved pines, and 
to extend the control-area permit requirement relating to the shipment of currant 
and gooseberry plants. 
Under the revision an embargo is placed on interstate movement of five-leaved 
pines into Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, and into that part of 
California lying south of the south line of the counties of Humboldt, Trinity, 
Tehama, Butte, Plumas, and Lassen, from all other parts of the continental 
United States. No restrictions are placed on the interstate movement of such 
pines from or between any of these 11 entire States, nor the part of California 
described, except that no pines or their parts which are visibly infected with 
blister rust may be shipped into any State or District unless in a preservative 
or under a special authorization of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine. United States Department of Agriculture. 
With regard to currant and gooseberry plants, the requirements as to dor- 
mancy, defoliation, or dipping in the prescribed lime-sulphur solution 4 now 
apply in the case of shipments to the 12 protected pine-growing States as de- 
scribed above. An embargo is placed on shipments of European black-currant 
plants and currant plants of the wild native western species from any part of 
the continental United States except into or within the area comprised in the 
States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana. Mississippi, Missouri, 
Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. 
No parcel containing currant or gooseberry plants of any species or variety 
shall be accepted for mailing interstate into any of the States of California, 
Connecticut. Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Maryland. Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne- 
sota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West 
Virginia, or Wisconsin unless accompanied with a Federal control-area permit 
issued therefor by an inspector designated to act for the Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of Agriculture, in the State 
to which the parcel is sent. 
Mailers desiring to secure control-area permits (Form 415) should apply to 
the officer of the State into which shipments are to be made stating the kind of 
plants to be shipped and the names and addresses of the sender and addressee. 
The addresses of such officers are shown below : 
Federal inspector designated to act in the State into which shipment is to 
State he made 
California Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. Sacramento, Calif. 
Connecticut State Entomologist, Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn. 
Georgia State Entomologist, Atlanta, Ga. 
Idaho Director, Bureau of Plant Industry. Boise, Idaho. 
Maine State Horticulturist, Augusta. Maine. 
Maryland State Plant Pathologist, College Park. Md. 
Massachusetts Director. Division of Plant Pest Control, Statehouse, Boston, Mass. 
Michigan Inspector in Charge, Orchard and Nursery Inspection, Department of 
Agriculture, Lansing, Mich. 
Minnesota Commissioner of Conservation, State Office Building, St. Paul, Minn. 
Montana Chief. Division of Horticulture. Missoula, Mont. 
New Hampshire State Nursery Inspector, Durham. N. H. 
New Jersey Chief. Bureau of Plant Industry, Trenton, N. J. 
New York Director, Bureau of Plant Industry. Albany, N. Y. 
North Carolina State Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. 
Ohio Chief, Division of Plant Industry. Columbus, Ohio. 
Pennsylvania Chief, Division of Forest Protection. Barrisburg, Pa. 
Rhode Island state Entomologist, 310 Statehouse, Providence. R. I. 
Tennessee Stale Entomologist and Plant Pathologist, 400 Morrill Hall, University 
of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Vermont Forest Commissioner. Montpelier, Vt. 
Virginia State Entomologist, 11TJ State Office Building, Richmond. Va. 
Washington Supervisor of Horticulture. Department of Agriculture, Olvmpia, Wash. 
West Virginia Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Charleston, W. Va. 
Wisconsin State Entomologist, Madison, Wis. 
4 Prepare this solution by diluting 1 part of commercial coneentrattd lime sulphur solu- 
tion of 32° B. with 8 parts of water. 
