1935] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 97 
LIST OF CURRENT QUARANTINES AND OTHER RESTRICTIVE 
ORDERS AND MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS 
[The domestic and foreign quarantines and other restrictive orders summarized herein are issued under 
the authority of the Plant Quarantine Act of Aug. 20, 1912, as amended. The Mexican border regulations 
and the export-certification regulations are issued under specific acts of Congress.] 
QUARANTINE ORDERS 
The numbers assigned to these quarantines indicate merely the chronological 
order of issuance of both domestic and foreign quarantines in one numerical 
series. The quarantine numbers missing in this list are quarantines which have 
either been superseded or revoked. For convenience of reference these quaran- 
tines are here classified as domestic and foreign, the domestic quarantines being 
divided into (1) those applying primarily to the continental United States, and 
(2) those applying primarily to shipments from and to the Territories of Hawaii 
and Puerto Rico. 
Domestic Plant Quarantines 
quarantines applying to the continental united states 
Date palms. — Quarantine No. 6, effective March 24, 1913, as amended ef- 
fective December 1, 1932: Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regu- 
lations supplemental thereto, the interstate movement of date palms and date- 
palm offshoots from Riverside County, Calif., east of the San Bernardino merid- 
ian; Imperial County, Calif.; Yuma, Maricopa, and Pinal Counties, Ariz.; 
and Webb County, Tex., on account of the Parlatoria scale (Parlatoria blanchardi). 
Black stem rust. — Quarantine No. 38, revised, effective August 1, 1931, as 
amended, effective February 20, 1935: Prohibits, except as provided in the rules 
and regulations supplemental thereto effective August 1, 1931, the movement 
into any of the protected States, namely, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, 
Wisconsin, and Wyoming, as well as the movement from any one of said pro- 
tected States into any other protected State of the common barberry (Berberis 
vulgaris), or other species of Berberis or Mahonia or parts thereof capable of 
propagation, on account of the black stem rust of grains. The regulations place 
no restrictions on the interstate movement of Japanese barberry (B. thunbergii) 
or any of its horticultural varieties, or of cuttings (without roots) of Mahonia 
shipped for decorative purposes. 
/ Gypsy moth and brown-tail moth. — Quarantine No. 45, revised, effective No- 
vember 4, 1935: Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations sup- 
plemental thereto, revised effective November 4, 1935, the movement interstate 
to any point outside of the infested area, or from points in the generally infested 
area to points in the lightly infested area, of stone or quarry products, and of 
the plants and the plant products listed therein. The quarantine covers Rhode 
Island and parts of the States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire, and Vermont. 
Japanese beetle. — Quarantine No. 48, revised, effective December 1, 1933: Pro- 
hibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
revised effective June 1, 1935, the interstate movement of (1) fruits and vegetables; 
(2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock and other plants; and (3) sand, 
soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure, from the quarantined areas to or through 
any point outside thereof. The quarantined area includes the entire States of 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware, and the 
District of Columbia, and portions of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
Pink bollworm. — Quarantine No. 52, revised, effective December 5, 1935: 
Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
revised effective December 5, 1935, the interstate movement from the regulated 
areas of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Florida, of (1) cotton, wild cotton, 
including all parts of either cotton or wild cotton plants, seed cotton, cotton 
lint, linters, and all other forms of unmanufactured cotton fiber, gin waste, cotton- 
seed, cottonseed hulls, cottonseed cake and meal; (2) bagging and other containers 
and wrappers of cotton and cotton products; (3) railway cars, boats, and other 
vehicles which have been used in conveying cotton or cotton products or which 
are fouled with such products; (4) hay and other farm products; and (5) farm 
