1942] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
65 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
B. P. Q. 355, Revised, Supplement No. 4. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, JAMAICA, BRITISH WEST INDIES 
September 11, 1942. 
Cotton Lint or Seed — Restricted Importation Permitted 
Proclamation No. 34, published in the Jamaica Gazette Supplement of June 29, 
1942, prescribed that the importation into Jamaica of cotton lint or seed, or any 
part whatever of the cotton plant or of any plant of any species or variety of 
Gossypium, is allowed only under permit granted by the Director of Agriculture 
and in compliance with the following rules: 
1. No consignment of cottonseed may exceed 1 ton in weight. 
2. All cottonseed imported into this Island shall be placed in the fumigation 
chamber immediately on landing and shall not be removed therefrom until it has 
been fumigated for a period of 1 hour with hydrocyanic acid gas at a concentration 
of 1 ounce of cyanide for every 300 cubic feet of space. 
3. All cottonseed shall before planting be immersed for not less than 3 minutes 
in concentrated sulphuric acid or treated with fungicide approved by the Director 
of Agriculture. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
P. Q. C. A. 310, Supplement No. 6. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF PERU 
July 3, 1942. 
Regulating the Cultivation of Flax in Peru and the Importation of Flaxseed 
[Executive Order of June 3, 1942, Lima] 
All seedings of flax for fiber made in certain coastal valleys are restricted 
generally to a planting season from May 15 to July 31. (This season is extended 
to August 15 in 1942. ) 
The importation of flaxseed by individuals is prohibited. This can be done only 
through the Bureau of Agriculture and Livestock, who will import flaxseed in 
quantities not exceeding 1 kilogram upon application by interested farmers. The 
flaxseed will be passed upon by the technical services of the Bureau and released 
to the farmers concerned if the test proves satisfactory. 
Avery S. Hoyt. 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
ARIZONA PLANT QUARANTINE 4 
(Amendment of Notice dated November 10, 1941) 
Item 6 of the notice of November 10, 1941, published in the Postal Bulletin of 
November 17, 1941, relating to Arizona plant quarantines is amended by removing 
"Plum trees and parts thereof, except fruit pits" from the prohibited list (column 
II) and placing these articles in the restricted list (column III) so that the 
amended item will read : 
(Column I) 
(Column III) 
(Column IV) 
(6) Arizona, California, 
Colorado, New Mexico, 
Oklahoma, Texas, and 
Utah. 
Plum trees and parts thereof, except fruit pits, 
peach and nectarine trees, root stock, grafts, 
buds, or other parts capable of propagation, ex- 
cept fruit pits, admitted under proper certifi- 
cation from State of origin. 
Peach mosaic disease. 
4 The Postal Bulletin, Washington, August 17, 1942. 
