126 PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [April-June. 
Under the provisions of paragraph 1, section 467, Postal Laws and Regula- 
tions, you will please be careful to see that no trees, branches, limbs or twigs 
of any variety of the pine trees mentioned in the order are accepted for 
mailing at your office. 
Sincerely yours. 
R. S. Regar, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ADDED TO COUNTRIES WHICH MAY SHIP POTATOES TO 
THE UNITED STATES 
Evidence has recently been submitted to the Department of Agriculture, 
through the State Department, that the Dominican Republic has met all of 
the general conditions set forth in regulation 2 of the regulations governing 
the importation of potatoes into the United States, including the establishment 
of the fact that it is free from the potato wart and other injurious potato 
diseases and insect pests new to or not widely prevalent or distributed within 
and throughout the United States. This administration is, therefore, now in 
position to issue permits for the entry of potatoes from the Dominican Republic. 
PARCELS CONTAINING PLANTS ACCEPTED IN VIOLATION OF JAPANESE BEETLE 
AND OTHER QUARANTINES 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, April 17, 1929. 
The United States Department of Agriculture has informed this office that 
a large number of parcels of plants and plant products were accepted for 
transmission in the mails during the past year in violation of the quarantines 
established by that department on account of the Japanese beetle and other 
injurious insect infestations or plant diseases. The reports show that the 
wrongful acceptance in the majority of the cases was due to negligence of 
window clerks to inquire as to the nature of the contents of the parcels when 
offered for mailing, or ignorance on the part of postal employees of the 
quarantine requirements. 
The Department of Agriculture states that this is a very serious matter, 
since failure to comply with the prohibitions and restrictions of quarantine 
orders is likely to result in the spread of injurious insect infestations and 
plant diseases and thus lead to disaster of the first magnitude, and that in 
addition to the injurious effect on the agriculture of the region involved, 
would probably necessitate large Federal and State appropriations. 
Postmasters and postal employees are, therefore, admonished that all plant 
quarantine orders in effect in their respective States must be rigorously en- 
forced, careful inquiry being made to ascertain the nature of the contents 
of parcels mailed, and close study made of the conditions governing all 
quarantines in effect in their particular State or county. 
Postmasters must see to it that all window clerks in their offices are thor- 
oughly instructed with respect to the requirements of the quarantines in 
effect in their particular locality, and if any plant material should be ac- 
cepted in violation of such quarantines must take suitable action to prevent a 
repetition. 
R. S. Regar, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
CONVICTIONS FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE PLANT QUARANTINE ACT 
The following convictions for violations of the plant quarantine act were 
reported to the administration during the period April 1 to June 30, 1929 : 
JAPANESE-BEETLE QUARANTINE 
In the case of the United States v. W. E. Marshall & Co. (Inc.), New York, 
N. Y., in the interstate shipment of 1 calla, 1 amaryllis, and 2 large crinum 
