1935] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 17 
control areas. A control-area permit is therefore now required under regulation 
3 before shipping currant and gooseberry plants to Minnesota. Application 
should be made to the Commissioner of Conservation, State Office Building, 
St. Paul, Minn. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 63 
(Approved Mar. 9, 1935; effective Mar. 15. 1935) 
Under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
(37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 
(39 Stat. 1134, 1165), it is ordered that regulation 3 of the revised rules and 
regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 63, an account of the 
white pine blister rust, which were promulgated on September 10, 1932, be and 
the same is hereby amended to read as follows : 
Regulation 3. Control of Movement of Currant and Gooseberry Plants 
(a) No European black currant plants (Ribes nigrum) and no plants of the 
wild native western species known as R. bracteosum and R. petiolare shall be 
moved or allowed to be moved interstate in 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. 
(6) No currant or gooseberry plants of any species or variety shall be moved 
or allowed to be moved interstate from an infected State or District unless 
they have either been dipped (except the roots) immediately prior to shipment 
in lime-sulphur solution of a strength of 4.5° B. 2 or are shipped in a dormant 
and defoliated condition. Such lime-sulphur dip shall be plainly visible on said 
plants and be easily detectable by odor, the judgment of the inspector to be 
final as to adequacy of the dip and as to the condition of the plants as to 
dormancy and defoliation. 
(c) No currant or gooseberry plants of any species or variety shall be moved 
or allowed to be moved interstate into any of the States of Connecticut, Idaho, 
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode 
Island, or Vermont, unless the container shall bear on the outside thereof a 
control-area permit issued by an inspector designated to act for the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine in such State. (See appendix.) Such per- 
mits may be issued on condition that the plants are destined for points outside 
the legally established blister rust control areas of the States concerned. 
(d) Except as provided in paragraphs (a) and (c) hereof, currant and 
gooseberry plants may be shipped from noninfected States to any destination 
without restriction under these regulations. 
This amendment shall be effective on and after March 15. 1935. 
Done at the city of Washington this 9th day of March 1935. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] H. A. Wallace. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Appendix 
states which have legally established blister rust control areas 
The following States have legally established blister rust control areas in 
which the planting and possession of currant and gooseberry plants is pro- 
hibited by State law or regulation. Before currant or gooseberry plants may 
be shipped into the States listed, each shipment must bear a control-area 
permit (form 415) from the officer named. Applications for such permits 
2 Prepare this solution by diluting 1 part of commercial concentrated lime-sulphur 
solution of 32° P>. with 8 parts of water. 
