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This quarantine shall not apply to the movements by the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture of the products named for experimental or scientific 

 purposes. 



Done in the District of Columbia this 15th day of April, 1919. 

 Witness my band and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



D. F. HOUSTON, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



EXTENSION OF JAPANESE BEEILE QUARANTINE 



The necessity for an extension of the federal quarantine on account of the 

 Japanese beetle in New Jersey and for placing greater restrictions on the move- 

 ment of products leaving the quarantined district are set forth in the notice of 

 hearing and in the news Statement with respect to such extension of quarantine. 

 These documents, together with the text of the quarantine and regulations sub- 

 sequently issued, and a warning statement with respect to the movement of 

 products under control, are reproduced below. 



Notice of Public Hearing on the Proposed Extension of the Quarantine on 

 Account of the Japanese Beetle in New Jersey 



Washington, D. C, January 5, 1920. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has information that a dangerous insect infesta- 

 tion, namely, the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica Newm.), not heretofore 

 widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United States, exists 

 in the following townships and borougbs in the State of New Jersey, to wit: 

 The townships of Delran, ehester, Cinnaminson, Palmyra, Mount Laurel, and 

 Riverside, and the borough of Riverton in Burlington County, and the townships 

 of Pensauken and Delaware, and the borough of Merchantville in Camden 

 County. 



It appears that the territory above described should be quarantined in accord- 

 ance with Section S of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat., 

 315), as amended by Act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat., 1134, 

 1165). and that the movement from said territory into other states, territories 

 and districts of marketable perishable food crops of all kinds, including green 

 corn, tomatoes, beans, peas, cantaloupes, watermelons, grapes, raspberries, black- 

 berries, cherries, peaches, apples and all other fruits, vegetables. and fresh food 

 products other than canned, dried, or preserved products ; also of hay, forage 

 and grain crops of all kinds, and of nursery and greenhouse products, including 

 trees, shrubs, plants of all kinds, bulbs ajid flowers, should be restricted or 

 prohibited. 



Notice is therefore hereby given that a public hearing will Ite held at the 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, room 11, Federal Horticultural 

 Board, at 10 o'clock a. m., January 27, 1920. in order that any person interested 

 in the proposed quarantine may appear and be heard, either in person or by 

 attorney. 



The New Jersey State Department of Agriculture will cooperate in the en- 

 forcement of the proposed quarantine so far as the intrastate movement of 

 nursery stock, greenhouse plants, bulbs, etc., is concerned. 



The quarantine now in force on account of the Japanese beetle Covers only 

 the townships of Delran, ehester and Cinnaminson, county of Burlington, N. J., 

 and restricts only the movement of green com, commonly called sweet or 

 sugar corn. 



