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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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and districts, by special quarantines and other orders, and of plants or portions 
of plants used as packing material in connection with shipments of such fruits 
and vegetables from all foreign countries and localities other than the Dominion 
of Canada, on account of injurious insects, including fruitflies and melonflies 
(Trypetidae). Includes and supersedes Quarantine No. 49 on account of the 
citrus blackfly. 
Flag smut. — Quarantine No. 59, effective February 1, 1926: Forbids the impor- 
tation of all species and varieties of wheat (Triticum spp.) and wheat products, 
unless so milled or so processed as to have destroyed all flag-smut spores, from 
India, Japan, China, Australia, Union of South Africa, Italy, and Spain. 
Packing materials. — Quarantine No. 69, effective July 1, 1933, as amended, 
effective July 1, 1933 : Forbids the entry from all foreign countries and locali- 
ties of the following materials when used as packing for other commodities, 
except in special cases where preparation, processing, or manufacture are 
judged by an inspector of the United States Department of Agriculture to have 
eliminated risk of carrying injurious insects and plant diseases: Rice straw, 
hulls, and chaff ; cotton and cotton products ; sugarcane, including bagasse ; 
bamboo leaves and small shoots ; leaves of plants ; forest litter ; and soil contain- 
ing an appreciable admixture of vegetable matter not therein provided for by 
regulation. All parts of corn and allied plants are likewise prohibited except 
from Mexico and the countries of Central America, the West Indies, and South 
America. This quarantine also brings under restriction, involving inspection 
at will by the Department but requiring no permit or certificate, the following 
when used as packing: Cereal straw, chaff, and hulls (other than rice) ; corn 
and allied plants from Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South 
America ; willow twigs from Europe ; grasses, hay, and similar dried plant mix- 
tures from all countries ; and authorized soil-packing materials from all countries. 
This quarantine does not cover such widely used packing materials as excelsior, 
paper, sawdust, ground cork, charcoal, and various other materials which, because 
of their nature or process of manufacture, are unlikely to transport plant 
parasites. 
Dutch elm disease. — Quarantine No. 70, revised, effective January 1, 1935 : 
Forbids the importation from Europe, on account of a disease due to the fungus 
Oraphium ulmi, of seeds, leaves, plants, cuttings, and scions of elm or related 
plants, defined to include all species and genera of the family Ulmaceae; logs of 
elm and related plants ; lumber, timber, or veneer of such plants if bark is present 
on them ; and crates, boxes, barrels, packing cases, and other containers, and other 
articles manufactured in whole or in part from the wood of elm or related 
plants if not free from bark. 
Coffee. — Quarantine No. 73, effective April 1, 1940: Prohibits the importa- 
tion into Puerto Rico from all foreign countries and localities of (1) the seeds 
or beans of coffee which, previous to importation, have not been roasted to a 
degree which, in the judgment of an inspector of the Department of Agri- 
culture, will have destroyed coffee borers in all stages, (2) coffee berries or 
fruits, and (3) coffee plants and leaves, on account of an injurious coffee insect 
known as the coffee berry borer (Stephanoderes [coffeae Hgdn.] liampei Ferr.) 
and an injurious rust disease due to the fungus Hemileia vastatrtx B. and Br. 
Provision is made for importations of samples of unroasted coffee seeds or beans 
and for shipments of unroasted coffee seeds or beans in transit to destinations 
other than Puerto Rico. 
OTHER RESTRICTIVE ORDERS 
The regulation of the entry of nursery stock from foreign countries into the 
United States was specifically provided for in the Plant Quarantine Act. The 
act further provides for the similar regulation of any other class of plants or 
plant products when the need therefor shall be determined. The entry of the 
plants and plant products listed below has been brought under such regulation. 
Nursery stock. — The conditions governing the entry of nursery stock and other 
plants and seeds from all foreign countries and localities are indicated above 
under "Foreign plant quarantines." (See Quarantine No. 37.) 
Potatoes. — The order of December 22. 1913, and the regulations issued there- 
under, revised, effective March 1, 1922, and amended, effective December 1, 
1936, restrict the importation of potatoes from all foreign countries and locali- 
ties except the Dominion of Canada and Bermuda, on account of injurious 
