76 AGRICULTURE 01? MAINE. 



'NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 4 (DOMESTIC), 



With Regulations. 

 (Effective on and after November 25, 1912.) 



GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH. 



The fact has been determined by the Acting Secretary of 

 Agriculture, and notice is hereby given, that two injurious 

 insects new to and not heretofore widely distributed within and 

 throughout the United States, exist in parts of the following 

 States, to wit: The gipsy moth {Porthetria dispar), in the 

 States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode 

 Island; and the brown-tail moth {Buproctis chrysorrhaa), in 

 Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, 

 and Rhode Island. 



Now, therefore, I, Willet M. Hays, Acting Secretary of 

 Agriculture, under the authority conferred by section 8 of the 

 act approved August 20, 1912, known as "The Plant Quaran- 

 tine Act," do hereby quarantine the area hereinafter described as 

 infested by the brown-tail moth and the area hereafter described 

 as infested by the gipsy moth, and do order by this Notice of 

 Quarantine No. 4, under the authority and discretion conferred 

 on the Secretary of Agriculture by said section 8 of the act of 

 Congress approved August 20, 1912, that the interstate move- 

 ment of (i) coniferous trees such as spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, 

 juniper (cedar), and arbor-vitcis (white cedar), known and 

 described as "Christmas trees," and parts thereof, and decora- 

 tive plants such as holly and laurel, known and described as 

 "Christmas greens or greenery," and (2) forest plant products, 

 including logs, tan bark, posts, poles, railroad ties, cordwood, 

 and lumber, and field-grown florist's stock, trees, shrubs, vines, 

 cuttings, and other plants and plant products for ])lanting or 

 propagation, excepting buds, fruit pits, seeds of fruit and orna- 



