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B. K. I'. Q.-Q. 73 ^9/^ Kffcrtive April 1. HUt) 
United StMtai Dlpign^mtntU^JAgriciillure 
bureau olttV)M()i ah.\ ami riA^jiiy AK AMINE 
COFl^EaLJA(^l<TINE 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 73 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
The coffee Industry In Puerto Ui«'<> established early in the history of the 
island has fortunately remained free from al leas! two of the world's most 
destructive coffee pests, the coffee berry borer and the coffee rust. The object 
of the present quarantine Is to ensure the continued freedom of Puerto EUcao 
coffee cultures from these and other coffee Insects and diseases by prohibiting 
or restricting entry into the island of tin. so coffee materials which might be the 
means of Introducing such p< sts. it is bettered that the measures put Into effect 
by this quarantine will attain this end and at the same time provide for as much 
m of movement as would be consistent with safety. 
A- EB1 S. IIovt. 
Acting Chief, Hunan of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
SEC. 319.73— NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 73 ON ACCOUNT 
OF COFFEE PESTS 
(Approved March 20, 1040; affective April l, 1940) 
M vin:,' found that an Injurious coffee insect (Stephanoderes [coffeae ITpdn.] 
hampi i Ferr. I, known as the coffee berry borer, and an Injurious rust di 
to the fungus HemUeia oattatriw B. and Br., not heretofore widely prevalent <>r 
distributed within and throughout the United States, exist in various countries 
and localities throughout the world, I. Henry a. Wallace, Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, pursuant to the provisions of the riant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
Stat 315; 7 r. s. Q 161-167), as amended, have determined that, In order 
to prevent the introduction of the said pests Into the Island of Puerto Rico, it 
is necessary to prohibit or restrict the Importation Into that Island from all 
foreign countries and localities of onroasted seeds or beans of coffee {Coffea 
fruits <>r berries, .-mil coffee plants and leaves. 
Now. therefore, by virtue of the -aid Pli nt Quarantine Act, the public hearing 
required thereby having been duly held, notice Is hereby given, Bret, that on and 
after April 1. 1940, the Importation into the island of Puerto Rico from all for 
OUntries and localities of il i the seeds or beans of coffee which, previous 
t<> Importation, have not been roasted to a degree which, in the judgment of an 
Inspector of the Department of Agriculture, will have destroyed coffee borers 
in all stafi hriries r fruits, and (3) coffee plants and leave 
prohibited except by the Department of Agriculture for experimental and scien- 
tific purposes, and except \'"\- samples of onroasted coff< or bean-, and 
for shipments of onroasted coffee seeds or bean- in transit to destinations other 
than Puerto Rico; and. second, that the importation of samples of onroa 
ds or beans, and importations «,f onroasted coffee seeds or beans In 
nations other than Puerto Rico, shall be made only under the 
tions provided in the rules and regulations supplemental hereto: Provided, 
That individual shipments of materials prohibited or restricted by this quaran- 
• mpted from it< provisions In whole or in part when it shall have 
been determined by the chief of the Burets of Entomology and Plant Quaran* 
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