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roughage of all kinds, straw, leaves, leafrnolds; (6) cordwood, pulpwood, stump 
wood, and logs; (7) lumber, timbers, posts, poles, cross ties, and other build- 
ing materials; (S) brick, tiling, stone, and concrete slabs and blocks; (9) 
used implements and machinery, scrap metal, junk, and utensils or containers 
in contact with the ground. 
Copies of the quarantine notice (Quarantine No. 72) may be obtained from 
the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington, D. C, or the 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Box 989, Gulfport, Miss. 
H. A. Wallace. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[The above notice was published in the following newspapers : The Birmingham News, 
Birmingham, Ala., December 24, 1938; the Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville. Fla., Decem- 
ber 26, J9o8 : the Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., December 26, 1938 ; the News, Jackson, 
Miss., December 24, 1938.] 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
FLORIDA STATE PLANT QUARANTINE 
(citeus canker disease) 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, November 7, 1938. 
Pursuant to the act of June 4. 1936, embodied in amended section 596, Postal 
Laws and Regulations, the State of Florida has promulgated a plant quarantine, 
on account of a plant disease known as citrus canker, which prohibits the ship- 
ment into that State from all other States and the District of Columbia of any 
and all kinds of citrus trees and parts thereof, including budwood and scions, 
known to be hosts of this disease, except, however, that citrus nursery stock 
shipped from Washington, D. C, by the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 
Department of Agriculture, may be admitted when accompanied with an inspec- 
tion certificate. New or rare varieties of citrus plants of demonstrated com- 
mercial value will also be admitted provided the shipper has first secured a 
special permit therefor from the State Plant Board, at Gainesville, Fla. The 
prohibition does not relate to fruits of citrus plants or trees. 
Postmasters are therefore requested to observe the Florida State quarantine 
and regulations, refusing to accept for mailing any parcels containing citrus 
plants or parts thereof offered for shipment in violation of such quarantine, 
and invite the attention of mailers thereto. See amended section 596, Postal 
Laws and Regulations. Inspection service is maintained at Gainesville, Fla. 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
THE PLANT QUARANTINE ACT AND QUARANTINE NO. 37 
By Lee A. Strong, Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United 
States Department of Agriculture 
[Address given before Section of Plant Quarantine and Inspection, American Association 
of Economic Entomologists, meeting at Richmond, Va., December 29, 1938] 
Over a period of some 20 years there has been so much prominence given 
to Quarantine 37 that the fact is almost always completely disregarded that 
the plant quarantines placed by the United States Department of Agriculture 
must be placed under authority of the Plant Quarantine Act passed by Congress 
more than 26 years ago. When any change is made or suggested in nursery 
stock import requirements there invariably comes a flood of telegrams and peti- 
tions, all saying the same thing in just about the same words : "Maintain 
Quarantine No. 37 as is." In general, these demands come from certain groups 
interested in some one class of nursery stock. They could not come from people 
familiar with Quarantine 37 because such people would not want Quarantine 37 
maintained as is. If they were really interested in keeping the country free of 
