1933] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 147 
Regulation 5. Types of Soil Authorized for Packing 
The following types of soil or earth are authorized as safe for packing: 
(1) Peat, (2) peat moss, and (3) Osmunda fiber. 
The above rules and regulations shall be effective on and after July 1, 1933. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of February, 1933. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS 
Quarantine with Regulations to Prevent the Introduction into the 
United States of Insects and Diseases Associated with Packing Mate- 
rials of Plant Nature (T. D. 46267) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Washington, D.C., March 11, 1933. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of Notice of Quarantine No. 69 with regulations (packing 
materials quarantine), issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to become 
effective July 1, 1933, is published for the information and guidance of customs 
officers and others concerned. 
Frank Dow, 
Acting Commissioner 'of Customs. 
(Then follows the full text of the quarantine.) 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO PHONY PEACH DISEASE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 67) 
February 6, 1933. 
PHONY PEACH DISEASE QUARANTINE REVOKED 
(Press release) 
Federal plant quarantine no. 67, issued in 1929 to prevent the spread of 
the phony peach disease, has been revoked, effective March 1, according to an 
announcement by the Secretary of Agriculture today. In the opinion of the 
Department, the further spread of this disease can be controlled more satisfac- 
torily by improved and modified nursery-inspection methods in the various 
States than by the enforcement of the type of Federal quarantine regu- 
lations now in effect. The Department plans to cooperate with the State 
nursery inspectors in developing adequate inspection methods. Officials 
expect that the States will prepare this month to make the required inspections. 
Lee A. Strong, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine, says that when the 
quarantine was placed by the Department it was believed, as a result of 
surveys made in 1926, 1927, and 1928, that the disease was confined to the 
States of Georgia and Alabama, although it was known to have been present 
in Georgia for some 50 years. Surveys in 1929 and 1930 disclosed infections 
in Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, and 
South Carolina. Surveys in 1931 revealed infections in Florida and Illinois. 
In all of these States, except Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina, the 
infections were discovered only in limited areas and the quarantine was 
extended on November 30, 1931, to the entire States of Louisiana, Mississippi, 
and South Carolina, and to parts of the States of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, 
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, as well as to those parts of Alabama 
and Georgia which were not already under quarantine. Surveys in 1932 
revealed a few infected trees in southern Oklahoma and in southeast Miss- 
souri. Scattered infections were also discovered in 1932 in new localities 
in Arkansas, Illinois, and Texas. 
The smallness of the area in which the disease was known to occur when 
the quarantine was first issued, together with the inauguration of an intensive 
eradication campaign by the Department in cooperation with the States, justi- 
fied the original placing of the quarantine, in the opinion of Department 
