Authorizing Examination of Department of Agriculture Officials: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session on S. Res. 143, a Resolution Authorizing and Examination of Certain Officials of the Department of Agriculture Concerning Agreements for the Control of Plant Pests, April 25 and 27, 1940Department of Agriculture rescinded ban on importation of iris and narcissus bulbs with resulting impact on U.S. bulb growers. |
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alfalfa Allium vineale amendments asked August 23 bill bulb eelworm bulb growers bulb nematode Bureau of Entomology Bureau of Plant capable of propagation certificate Chairman cissus claimant clean condition of entry December 15 defendant Department of Agriculture disease ELLIOTT Entomology and Plant examination February 22 field inspection found infested Goodey Gronen Haarlem hearing Hodson Holland narcissus bulbs hot-water treated hot-water treatment HOYT hyacinths Hypochaeris radicata importation of narcissus indicated infested bulbs infested with nematode inspec inspectors iris bulbs known hosts Kuijs ment narcissus and iris nemas oats onion percent permit pests PHILIPPO plant products capable Plant Quarantine Plantago lanceolata Plantago maritima plants and plant port of entry Potato present question record Red clover Ritzema-Bos RYNVELD SASSCER Secretary of Agriculture Senator HATCH Senator McNary Senator MURPHY Senator SCHWELLENBACH ship shipment Slogteren spikkel statement STEINER sterilization Strong testimony tion Washington
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Page 12 - March 3, 1905 (USC, title 21, sees. 123-128), to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other livestock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out the provisions of the act of June 29, 1906 (USC, title 45, sees.
Page 15 - Upon reference of this matter to the Bureau of the Budget, as required by Budget Circular 344, the Acting Director thereof advised the Department of Agriculture under date of March...
Page 5 - ... the inspector to make the supervision. Senator MURPHY. I suppose that would be incorporated in an order by the Secretary of Agriculture? Mr. STRONG. No, it would not need to be incorporated in an order of the Secretary. It would be handled — you see, each one of these importations had to have a permit issued by our office, and it would be a requirement in that specific permit that this sterilization be accomplished. We probably would in the near future issue a statement that we propose to do...
Page 1 - The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 am in the committee room of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, 324 Senate Office Building, Senator Lewis B.
Page 27 - ... and that if during the first year the bulb is hard, it might still have an eelworm infestation in it? Mr. STEINER. That is true. I have in mind a case that I might mention of a narcissus planting near Richmond. It is a high planting, well exposed to infestation. That planting had an infestation...
Page 3 - ... original certificate, and unless each container bears a copy certificate issued by a duly authorized official of the country from which it is exported stating that the nursery stock and other plants and seeds covered by the certificate have been thoroughly inspected by him or under his direction at the time of packing, and found, or believed to be, free from injurious plant diseases and insect pests.
Page 14 - States, the gypsy moth, brown-tall moth, leopard moth, plum curculio, hop plant louse, boll weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect in a live state which is notoriously injurious to cultivated crops, including vegetables, field crops, bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or shade trees; or the eggs, pupae, or larvae of any Insect injurious as aforesaid...
Page 66 - The undersigned certifies that the narcissus bulbs contained herein were taken from a shipment of narcissus bulbs certified by a proper official of the state of origin! and that they met the requirements of the State of Oregon quarantine orden No. 4 (A series).
Page 12 - Hon. ELLISON D. SMITH, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate.
Page 2 - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE, Washington, DC, January 13, 1939.