138 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [January-March, 
Experience having demonstrated that articles made from cobs or other 
parts of the corn plant by methods involving any considerable degree of process 
or manufacture are unlikely to carry the European corn borer or other injurious 
pests, such articles are relieved of all restriction except that of being still 
subject to inspection. Under the new regulations the same status is accorded 
to corn silk, imported in considerable amounts for the manufacture of medicinal 
preparations. 
In making provision for the entry of green corn on the cob in small lots 
for local use only, from adjacent areas of Canada, cognizance has been taken 
of the fact that the infested regions of both countries are practically coinci- 
dent, and that Canada maintains a quarantine to prevent the spread of the 
European corn borer to the Provinces west of Ontario. It is therefore consid- 
ered that the few shipments concerned involve no appreciable risk. 
Under the revised regulations commercial shipments of corn on the cob, 
green or mature, from the borer-free western Provinces of Canada, and shelled 
corn and seeds of the other plants covered by this quarantine from any part of 
Canada, are permitted entry under proper safeguards, which include permit, 
entry inspection, and a certificate of freedom from corn borer issued by the 
Canadian authorities. This certificate and entry inspection may be waived 
at the discretion of the department for shipments originating in borer-free 
areas. 
According to the most recent information available to the department the 
European corn borer appears to be absent from the countries of the West 
Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America, and importation is 
now permitted from these areas of corn on the ccb, green or mature; in 
addition the presence of bits of cob or other fragments of the corn plant in 
importations of shelled corn will be disregarded. Permit and other require- 
ments of the regulations are still continued, however, as a protection against 
other pests. 
The revised regulations now provide for mail importations of corn and the 
seeds of the other plants covered by this quarantine. Inasmuch as these are 
enterable in commercial quantity by freight or express, it would appear that 
under the safeguards provided entry by mail can justly be authorized in order 
to facilitate the import of the small quantities often needed for seed purposes. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 41, WITH REGULATIONS (SECOND REVISION) 
(Effective June 1, 1926) 
The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and notice 
is hereby given, that dangerous plant pests, including the so-called European 
corn borer (Pyrausta nubilalis Hubn.), and also other dangerous insects, as 
well as plant diseases not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within 
and throughout the United States, exist, as to one or more of such pests, in 
Europe, Asia, Africa, Dominion of Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, 
and other foreign countries and localities, and may be introduced into this 
country through importations of the stalks or other parts of Indian corn or 
maize, broomcorn, and related plants. 
Now, therefore, I, W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, under the 
authority conferred by the act of Congress approved August 20, 1912, known 
as the plant quarantine act (37 Stat. 315), do hereby declare that it is neces- 
sary, in order to prevent the further introduction of the dangerous-plant pests 
mentioned above, to forbid, except as provided in the rules and regulations 
supplemental hereto, the importation into the United States from all foreign 
countries and localities of the stalk and all other parts, whether used for 
packing or other purposes, in the raw or unmanufactured state, of Indian corn 
or maize (Zea mays L.), broomcorn (Andropogon sorghum var. technicus), 
sweet sorghums (Andropogon sorghum), grain sorghums (Andropogon sor- 
ghum), Sudan grass (Andropogon sorghum sudanensis), Johnson grass (Andro- 
pogon halepensis), sugarcane (fiaccharum officinarum) , including Japanese 
varieties, pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), napier grass (Pennisetum 
purpuneum), teosinte (Euchlaena luxurians), and jobs-tears (Coix lachryma- 
Jobi). 
