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Revision of Quarantine and Regulations. 
Effective September 1, 1937. 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
BLACK STEM RUST QUARANTINE 
QUARANTINE NO. 38 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
An important change in the following revision of the Black Stem Rust Quar- 
antine is the addition of the States of Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and 
West Virginia to the list of States previously designated as protected. 
Under paragraph A of regulation 3, persons intending to move barberry or 
mahonia plants other than Berb eris thunbergii or its rust-resistant varieties into 
the protected States, shall make application to the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, Washington, D. C, not later than June 1 (Sept. 1 for this 
calendar year). Applications covering shipment proposed to be made during 
the next fiscal year may be denied if inspection by the Department before the 
close of the active growing season cannot be arranged. 
SUMMARY 
Unless a permit has been issued by the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, these regulations as now revised prohibit the movement of Berberis or 
Mahonia plants, except Herberts thunbergii and its rust-resistant varieties, into 
or between the States of Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, 
Missouri, Montana. Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, 
Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. For further details see 
regulation 2. 
Persons intending to move Berberis or Mahonia plants (except Berberis thun- 
bergii or any of its rust-resistant varieties) shall make application for a permit 
to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington, D. C. See 
regulation 3 for further details. 
Information relative to cancelation of permits, marking requirements, in- 
spection of restricted articles in transit, and shipments by the United States 
Department of Agriculture are given in regulations 4 to 7 inclusive. 
Lei: A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 38 (REVISED) 
(Approved Aug. 4, 1937 ; effective Sept. 1, 1937) 
I, M. L. Wilson, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, have determined that, in or- 
der to prevent the spread of a dangerous plant disease known as the black stem 
rust (Puceinia graminis), not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within 
and throughout the United States and largely brought under control through 
the eradication of various susceptible varieties and species of Berberis and 
Mahonia in the States of Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minne- 
sota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South 
Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, it is necessary to 
quarantine all States of the continental United States and the District of 
Columbia, in order to prevent the interstate spread of said disease into and 
among the States named. 
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